Raychael Stine makes luscious, joyful paintings that integrate multiple painterly languages and approaches to mark, texture, and levels of visual legibility, allowing for playful slippage between formal and material abstraction and traditional devices of painterly representation. Stine plays with frame and the embedded structure of a dog portrait turned on its side. Color schemes come from looking at photographs, flowers, skies, dogs, hummingbirds, rainbows, postcards, and more. Moves are inspired by sensual experiences like sniffing, kissing, and crying. A trompe l’oeil teardrop becomes a dog’s ear or a petal. A cosmos flower is a portal into the greater cosmos.
Select exhibitions include Five Car Garage, LA; Eugene Binder, Marfa; Art Palace, Houston; L.A. Louver, Los Angeles; Rhona Hoffman, Chicago; Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe; 1969 Gallery NYC, and others. Her work has been included in shows like NADA NY, NEXT Art Chicago, and Art on Paper NY. Stine’s work has been featured in New American Paintings Issues #132, #120 #78, and in Hyperallergic, New City, Texas Arts + Culture, Glasstire, NY Arts, and Southwest Contemporary among others.
[excerpted from Cris Worley Fine Arts website: www.crisworley.com]