Artist Profile: Rachi Farrow

Rachi Farrow is a Vermont-based artist whose work is currently on display at the Christine Price Gallery Fine Arts center in Vermont – here is her story!

I make ART with STUFF instead of throwing stuff away. It’s how I recycle. At first I gathered flotsam and jetsam from roadsides, beaches, dumpsters, trash cans, etc. I see something I can use, I take it to my studio.

10 years ago I was in Guatemala working in a make-shift studio and scrounging around for materials to use. I discovered a room in the factory full of leftover yarns and woven scraps. The mother-load!

The XXXL project began once I was back home in Vermont. I asked my welder (he’s also my husband) to make a stick figure armature from scrap steel. I wanted to make a doll.

My sister Carol was talking with a friend who asked her what kind of art I was making. Carol described what I was using to make art…Her friend works at Free People…and the rest is history. I am currently working on doll #7, which is the 4th XXXLer made from Free People’s fabulous-fantastic-funderful damages & samples.

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So cool – thanks Rachi!

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12 years ago

Those are amazing!! Love it.

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12 years ago

Very cool! There is such a contrast between different parts of the dolls!
http://www.forsurejadore.blogspot.com

Mary Ann
12 years ago

What a talent – imagination and creativity to be able to express so much through found objects.

Susan Kane
12 years ago

OMG…I love these…I want one to be my husband….

judy
12 years ago

Effervescent, fresh and fun. Great to give trash the recognition it deserves!!!!!

Zekeness
12 years ago

These tools are incredible! What an amazing use of land-fill material! Majestic, magnificent, magnitude.

Anonymous
12 years ago

@ Susan Kane: only if you let me perform the ceremony…

fingers farrow
12 years ago

oops… I forgot to enter my name on the last comment. Didn’t mean for it to be anonymous. Fingers said it, by golly, she did. She did.

sista C
12 years ago

How proud I am of you-your work is incredible, beginning with “six Hanks on
…” xxoo,c

Bonny W
11 years ago

Hey,how is Fla? Want to be my friend? love your art!