Visual artist Raychael Stine is a painter living and working along with her two dogs here in Albuquerque, NM, as well as the Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico, where she has taught since 2013. Stine makes luscious, joyful paintings that integrate a variety of painterly languages and approaches to mark-making, texture, and levels of visual legibility, allowing for playful slippage between formal and material abstraction and traditional devices of painterly representation. She received her BFA at UT Dallas in 2003, and her MFA at UIC in Chicago in 2010. In addition, she guides non-traditional plein air painting courses where students visit sites across the Southwest.
Stine was a part of two residency programs over the 2024 summer, both of which developed and deepened her work. She was an artist in residency at Millay Arts and Headlands Center for the Arts. Millay Arts is one of the longest-running artist residencies in the world. It has hosted over 3,000 composers, poets, writers, visual artists, playwrights, screenwriters, and filmmakers since its beginnings in 1973. While there, she was immersed in a campus in nature and together with a community of artists sought after a legacy of creativity. Headlands Center for the Art has supported more than 1,600 artists in their creative work that has led to groundbreaking art that fills museums, galleries, theaters, bookshelves, and public spaces around the world. At Headlands Center for the Arts, Stine was able to experiment with some new compositions in which she had the “…first glimmers of in my mind,” as well as continued exploration of other past ideas.
After completing these two programs, Stine’s work will be featured in her current show at Five Car Garage in LA. Stine and fellow artist, Jennifer Sullivan, both have inspiring work in this gallery based in Los Angeles. The inspiration behind their show The Tenderness comes from when Stine received a set of paints from the New Mexico studio of the late painter Susan Rothenberg. Stine shared this gift with Sullivan, and along with these paints, coupled with the following quote said by the late painter,
“In the paintings where it’s there-the tenderness-I work for it. I’m not afraid of it. If I could put my bleeding heart in there, I would.”
These words inspired Stine and Sullivan and drove their work for the gallery. The show will be on view from August 24-September 28, 2024, and is an experience in which viewers can engage with these artists’ ideas and emotions as seen in their work.
https://www.headlands.org/?s=raychael+stine
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https://www.millayarts.org/happenings/may-millay-arts
