BODIES OF WORK
Casting Shadows
Casting Shadows
Ratcliff’s continued experimentation with colored shadow has formed a series of lightweight, suspended works. Using Pēbēo and alcohol ink, she is able to cast shadow with a breadth of subtle color. The underlying structures of tree branches, water, creatures, landmasses, luminous lights, shadows and reflections rotate, casting moving shadows onto the surrounding space.
Her work plays on the edge of abstraction and reality. Tropical fish, water, flowers, and pelicans are juxtaposed, repeated, and recolored with surprising effects. The images in the work are sourced from photographs taken by Ratcliff, who is continually stimulated by the shapes, patterns, shadows and reflections that spontaneously appear in nature. She intuitively seeks out images that represent a calm and mysterious complexity”
Interior Landscape, 2022 digital inkjet prints on plexiglass, monofilament 44x 16 x 16
Frond Dangle, 2022 alcohol ink on plexiglass, steel, monofilament 75 x 18 x 18
Aquarium, 2022 Pébéo on plexiglass, monofilament 64 x 16 x 16
Blue Totem, 2021 acrylic paint, digital inkjet prints on acetate, plexiglass and monofilament 25 x 8 x 8
Pelican Landings, 2022 alcohol ink, mylar, steel, monofilament 46 x 41 x 31
Basel Branch, 2020 acrylic on plexiglass 24 x 24 x 24
Water and Rock, 2021 digital inkjet prints on plexiglass, monofilament 40 x 16 x 16
For Flora, 2021 acrylic paint, digital inkjet prints on acetate, plexiglass and monofilament 24 x 8 x 8
Spirals, 2022 Pébéo on plexiglass, monofilament, electric fan 12 x 32 x 12
Summer Necklace, 2022 alcohol ink on plexiglass, steel 36 x 25 x 2
Water Totem, 2021 acrylic paint, digital inkjet prints on acetate, plexiglass and monofilament 24.5 x 8 x 8
Flying North / Flying South, 2022 Pébéo, alcohol ink on plexiglass, steel 36 x 50 x 1.5