Inspired by mid-century design and classic Americana, Rachel Paxton paints images of hyper-idealized vintage neon signs. The signs are explicitly designed as part documentary, part fiction, based on the acknowledgment that historical truth is unknowable and memory is incomplete and riddled with our curated imagined ideals. Paradoxically, her depictions of these revered American archetypes are largely unreliable, fabricated imaginations, but that’s exactly the point.