Rachel Ferguson
Inside Voices

January 7 - March 19, 2022
Opening Reception January 7, 5-8 PM

As a painter, Rachel Ferguson is interested in visual communication, and as a figurative painter, especially how thoughts and emotions are communicated through body language. Her primary focus is on female figures, creating subtle narratives about their inner lives. For example, the tilt of the head or a lift of a shoulder can say so much about a person’s state of mind. An arched eyebrow can belie a smile.

Ferguson keeps her compositions simple and uses a single light source to help highlight the body language of her subjects. She loves portraying the individual beauty of her models, but her ultimate goal is to evoke the question: “What is she thinking?” Ferguson encourages the viewer to consider what might be going on beneath the surface.

Bio

Rachel Ferguson was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and earned her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design before moving and settling in Missouri. She started drawing portraits around the age of 12, and at 18 she discovered oil painting and fell in love with the medium. Since then, she has concentrated on figurative painting, mostly focusing on the female figure.

Ferguson works from her home studio in Warrenton, Missouri, where she lives with her husband and two teenage children.