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Rachel Krislov is a Shaker Heights native who loves her sister, cats, edgy music and graphic novels. She recently graduated with her BFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her favorite artists are Kiki Smith and Betty Goodwin.
I believe that all people consist of at least two parts: an inner person, or people, who are genuine, amorphous and free of categorization, and an outer person, the visible manifestation of a person in the world, subject to judgment from others. The inner selves are the amalgamation of emotion, thoughts, memories, bodily chemical states, learned habits, and physical sensation. I imagine the web of selves and their interactions as a tangled mass of knotted points and their thin connections too numerous for measure. This web is constantly in flux. But the emotional and mental space those points and lines inhabit remains within a definite territory of personality.
I use my work to examine the interaction of selves and their components. I stick to interactions involving at least one of my selves because I feel I have the right to claim them as my own. I use figurative imagery to reference people, sometimes stylizing to be more expressive. My work uses warm, intense color to reference powerful emotion; dark color mimics the unlit quality of a person’s world before intellectual exploration has lit ideas inside the mind. I like to make image symbols to represent multifaceted ideas that would otherwise be difficult to express in images.
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