Downtown Raleigh Alliance

Rachel Herrick’s new work explores good intentions as well as failures to communicate. This series began with Herrick’s discovery of a 1928 lifeguard handbook depicting rescue techniques that resulted in disabling or crippling the drowning victims in an attempt to pull them to safety. The violent holds, chokes, kicks, and punches illustrated in the book caused Herrick to contemplate how anyone managed to actually get out of the rescues alive. She came to see these struggling swimmers as metaphors for all of the complicated relationships in our lives. Rachel Herrick is an artist based in Fuquay Varina, NC, whose mixed media work focuses on cultural landscapes and communication. Her work has been featured in galleries across the US including the William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia; The Collectors Gallery, Raleigh; and Vision Gallery, Atlantic Beach. Originally from Maine, Herrick earned a BA in Writing from Methodist University. Since 2006, she has worked as the Exhibitions Director at Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC. 

Cost: Free