Biography
Raychael Stine (b. 1981) lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Stine has exhibited at Emma Gray HQ, Five Car Garage (Los Angeles, CA), Cris
Worley (Dallas, TX) Eugene Binder (Marfa, TX), Richard Levy (Albuquerque, NM), Art Palace (Houston, TX), L.A. Louver (Venice, CA) Rhona Hoffman (Chicago, IL), Smoke the Moon (Santa Fe, NM), The Valley (Taos, NM), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY) and others. Her work has been included in regional and national shows such as NADA (NY), The Texas Biennial, NEXT at Art Chicago, and Art on Paper (NY).
Stine’s work has been featured in New American Paintings Issues #132, #120 and #78, along with reviews, interviews, and features in publications such as Hyperallergic, New City Chicago, Bad At Sports, Arts + Culture Texas, Glasstire, NY Arts Magazine, Artlies, Southwest Contemporary, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Albuquerque Journal, among others. Stine has received awards and residencies including TheHeadlands Center for the arts, Millay Colony, 100 West Corsicana, Bemis Center, Jentel, and the Dallas Museum of Art DeGoyler Grant. A three time Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee, she is associate Professor of Painting at the University of New Mexico.
Artist Statement
I make luscious, joyful paintings that integrate a variety of 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. My “Vision” paintings are small abstract representations of distilled sensate experiences that embody transitional spaces between object and image. Color schemes reference my experiences looking at places, photographs, clippings, flowers, skies, dogs, hummingbirds, rainbows, postcards, and paintings, to name a few. My painterly moves are inspired by sensual experiences like sniffing, kissing, and crying. I give double meanings to elements, shapes, and symbols through legibility of form. For example, a trompe l'oeil teardrop can become a dog’s ear or a flower petal. A cosmos flower is ever-present, a portal into the greater cosmos. For my “Jammer” paintings, I take that diffused space, shift it on its side, and “jam” a ground into it that melds material space and illusionistic space. Jammer is also the name for a dancing dog figure, loosely inspired by cartoons like Snoopy.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2024 *The Tenderness, Emma Gray HQ/ Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Wonder Dawn, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
2024 Wonder Dawn, Pollock Gallery, SMU Meadows Division of Art, Dallas, TX
2024 Anthology: Erin Curtis, Sara Frantz, Jessica Halonen, Raychael Stine; David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
2023 *Now you Don’t, Raychael Stine and Anders Lindreth, My Pet Ram, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 THE FLOWER SHOW, L.A. Louver; Venice California.
2022/23 Raychael Stine, John Pomara, and Lizz Tropser: Vision Pool; Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX
2022 *New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Fair, with Leena Similu, Emma Gray HQ/ Five Car Garage, May 4-8, New York, NY
2022 Plein-air, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder Colorado
2022 Another World, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2022 Flower Shop, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe NM
2021 HEDON EDEN, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Scenic Route, 1969 Gallery, New York NY.
2021 The Guild of Adventure Painters, Air Stream Exhibition, The Armory Show Off site Projects, New York NY September 9-12
2021 Made in ABQ: 30th anniversary show, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2021 Winter in the Valley, The Valley Gallery, Taos, NM
2020 Works on paper in the project space, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Raychael Stine (b. 1981) lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Stine has exhibited at Emma Gray HQ, Five Car Garage (Los Angeles, CA), Cris
Worley (Dallas, TX) Eugene Binder (Marfa, TX), Richard Levy (Albuquerque, NM), Art Palace (Houston, TX), L.A. Louver (Venice, CA) Rhona Hoffman (Chicago, IL), Smoke the Moon (Santa Fe, NM), The Valley (Taos, NM), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY) and others. Her work has been included in regional and national shows such as NADA (NY), The Texas Biennial, NEXT at Art Chicago, and Art on Paper (NY).
Stine’s work has been featured in New American Paintings Issues #132, #120 and #78, along with reviews, interviews, and features in publications such as Hyperallergic, New City Chicago, Bad At Sports, Arts + Culture Texas, Glasstire, NY Arts Magazine, Artlies, Southwest Contemporary, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Albuquerque Journal, among others. Stine has received awards and residencies including TheHeadlands Center for the arts, Millay Colony, 100 West Corsicana, Bemis Center, Jentel, and the Dallas Museum of Art DeGoyler Grant. A three time Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee, she is associate Professor of Painting at the University of New Mexico.
Artist Statement
I make luscious, joyful paintings that integrate a variety of 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. My “Vision” paintings are small abstract representations of distilled sensate experiences that embody transitional spaces between object and image. Color schemes reference my experiences looking at places, photographs, clippings, flowers, skies, dogs, hummingbirds, rainbows, postcards, and paintings, to name a few. My painterly moves are inspired by sensual experiences like sniffing, kissing, and crying. I give double meanings to elements, shapes, and symbols through legibility of form. For example, a trompe l'oeil teardrop can become a dog’s ear or a flower petal. A cosmos flower is ever-present, a portal into the greater cosmos. For my “Jammer” paintings, I take that diffused space, shift it on its side, and “jam” a ground into it that melds material space and illusionistic space. Jammer is also the name for a dancing dog figure, loosely inspired by cartoons like Snoopy.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2024 *The Tenderness, Emma Gray HQ/ Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Wonder Dawn, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
2024 Wonder Dawn, Pollock Gallery, SMU Meadows Division of Art, Dallas, TX
2024 Anthology: Erin Curtis, Sara Frantz, Jessica Halonen, Raychael Stine; David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
2023 *Now you Don’t, Raychael Stine and Anders Lindreth, My Pet Ram, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 THE FLOWER SHOW, L.A. Louver; Venice California.
2022/23 Raychael Stine, John Pomara, and Lizz Tropser: Vision Pool; Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX
2022 *New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Fair, with Leena Similu, Emma Gray HQ/ Five Car Garage, May 4-8, New York, NY
2022 Plein-air, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder Colorado
2022 Another World, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2022 Flower Shop, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe NM
2021 HEDON EDEN, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Scenic Route, 1969 Gallery, New York NY.
2021 The Guild of Adventure Painters, Air Stream Exhibition, The Armory Show Off site Projects, New York NY September 9-12
2021 Made in ABQ: 30th anniversary show, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2021 Winter in the Valley, The Valley Gallery, Taos, NM
2020 Works on paper in the project space, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA