Rachel Hallett Ralston | Feral Grace
Rachel Hallett Ralston is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work bridges the realms of painting, immersive environments, and cultural ritual. Based in Ashland, Oregon, her practice explores the tension between wildness and refinement, instinct and transformation capturing visceral landscapes both internal and external. Her paintings, rooted in a classical foundation, oscillate between gestural realism and raw abstraction, dissolving the boundaries between figure and form.
Hallett Ralston’s latest solo exhibition, Feral Grace, is a retrospective of this evolution tracing a path through destruction, rebirth, and the alchemy of being. Influenced by mythology, transpersonal psychology, and the shifting textures of her travels of inner and outer space. This body of work reflects a life lived in movement from the souks of Marrakech to the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, from underground salons to sacred gatherings. Feral Grace is not just a collection of paintings but an invocation an invitation to step into the liminal space where chaos and beauty converge.
Beyond the canvas, Ralston has shaped immersive and participatory art at Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis, Oregon Eclipse, and The Temple at Renegade Burn expanding the role of art as a sacred and communal experience. As the founder of Hobo Nouveau, an experimental storefront and gallery in Berkeley, she created a living salon, blending historical artifacts with contemporary artistic expression.
Deeply influenced by her bohemian upbringing in the antique world, Ralston work reimagines our relationships with self, sensuality and the nature of consciousness, engaging in the co-creation of emergent culture.