Rachel Teannalach

EXPANSE

October 8 - December 4, 2021

Teannalach’s expansive landscapes breathe in your presence. Much like JMW Turner’s light-filled, emotive landscapes pushed the boundaries of an inner, passionate dialogue informing place; Teannalach expresses grand emotions in broad strokes, the parsing of detail and emanating light. Landscapes, much loved and much derided, are having a moment. Our rapidly changing environment is more tenuous than ever. A landscape, now, feels like a love letter to a relationship that is already on its way out… Wistful for what once was and could have been. Teannalach was married on the Big Lost River in Idaho. A large, almost garishly colorful kaleidoscopic tent landed, moon-scape style, on the arid sagebrush- a beacon for attendees. Sweet pea flowers and a beautiful blue-sky day, with a puff of a cloud to cap off the early evening departure, gave such immense feeling to the landscape. Somehow that feeling, buffeted by intermingling perceptions of place, created a lingering visual- one that invited getting to know Teannalach more… which follows that a Boise-based artist lands in Bozeman.

EXPANSE is the impression of places felt. Teannalach invites you in with tall portals, grand triptychs and widening views into her world. There is a strong pulse in these depictions, an invitation to engage with place in a very personal way. You may even recognize a few.