“The Tenderness” Raychael Stine & Jennifer Sullivan August 24th - September 28th 2024 Opening August 24th 2-5pm


“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.” – Susan Rothenberg

The genesis of this exhibition can be traced back to late 2022, when Raychael
Stine received a precious gift of paints from the New Mexico studio of the
late painter Susan Rothenberg, who passed away in May 2020. Recognizing the
profound significance of this inheritance, Raychael chose to share a portion
of these paints with Jennifer Sullivan, knowing their shared admiration for
Rothenberg's work. Both artists regarded this gift as transformative—a sacred
transmission from their artistic hero, sparking a new phase in their creative
development.
This exhibition marks the public debut of the paintings created with these
materials, conceived as valentines or love letters to Susan Rothenberg, to
the act of painting itself, and to the emotional expressiveness that guided
Rothenberg's work. The collected works reflect each artists' individual
interpretations and resonances with Rothenberg's enduring legacy, who
continues to inspire and shape their artistic journeys in unique and
generative ways.
Raychael Stine’s sensual, ebullient abstractions of distilled hidden dogs and
exuberant flower gardens toss around and reconfigure painterly conventions of
landscape, portraiture, and painterly approaches to depth scale, and level of
legibility. The paintings embody the feelings of wonder, awe, and joy, and
become hovering pictures of transitional time.

This body of paintings serve as both fantasy thank you notes to Susan
Rothenberg and valentines to her cherished dogs from the past. Dogs, a
recurring motif symbolizing physicality and intuitive spirit, are central in
Stine's work, echoing Rothenberg’s exploration of animal subjects throughout
her career. Each painting, in a square format, features a heart embedded in
both border and composition, often portraying two dogs in tender embrace.
Grounds for the works are built upon fragments of album covers that can be
found in Stine’s and Rothenberg’s music collection. known elements like sky
and landscape blend with the dog figures, occasionally incorporating human
forms like arms or breasts embracing the painterly animals.
Inspired by Stine’s first favorite painting, Rothenberg’s Cabin Fever (1976),
the largest two-panel work in the exhibition depicts a dog in profile, head
to the sky, amidst a swirling cosmic garden of joy. This painting marks a
pivotal exploration for Stine, using Rothenberg’s influence and ethos as a
foundational ground rather than mere aesthetic reference.
If paintings are prayers, as Rothenberg once asserted, then the artist’s
studio must be the altar. Jennifer Sullivan’s recent paintings capture
intimate compositional moments inspired by spontaneous arrangements of
materials, mementos, and gifted objects she has assembled into a makeshift
painting shrine within the sanctuary of her home-studio. This "shrine"
prominently features a portrait and quote by Rothenberg as a central element,
serving as visual reminders of artistic integrity and encouragement to
persevere. Set against walls transformed into varying shades of pink, these
works evoke a metaphysical space of creation infused with love and personal
history.
The arrival of gifted paints and brushes from Rothenberg’s studio sparked
Sullivan’s contemplation of the symbolic power of her creative space and its
nuanced details—a theme also explored by Rothenberg and earlier by Matisse.
In contrast to her predecessors, Sullivan portrays her studio in fragmented,
close-up views rather than depicting it in its entirety, within a rose-
colored atmosphere that exudes soft, feminine energy. Her approach to
painting is playful and romantic, a reflection of her artistic evolution.
Within her emotional and creative realm, where everyday objects and personal
reflections converge, the cat replaces the dog as a companion figure — a
symbol of femininity and unwavering authenticity.

davidsheltongallery.com

Fri, Jul 12, 2024 → Sat, Aug 24, 2024

Opening reception: Fri, Jul 12, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Erin Curtis, Sara Frantz, Jessica Halonen, Raychael Stine

Anthology is a collection of paintings that utilize flowers and flowering plants within their subject matter. Colorful gardens and dense, flowering trees. Vivid wildflowers sprouting from the surface. Hardy white and lilac bouquets with delicate green stems decorating walls. Bold floral shapes floating atop fields of abstracted forms.

The four artists in Anthology incorporate, alter, transform, and transfigure flowers in various ways, with each metamorphosis involving a different approach, process, and intent. Canvases are cut, at times exposing a layer beyond the stripes and botanical shapes on the surface, while at other times collaged on top of it. Locally foraged plants and flowers, embedded into paintings, become sculptural milieus. Forced perspective landscapes and rocks residing on domestic wallpapers obscure the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces. Trompe l’oeil flowers and water drops playfully comingle with illusionistic, fantastical background scenes.

come out and see what these amazing creatures have created Sunday Just 21!

944 Fort Barry, Sausalito

www.headlands.org

Marie de Brugerolle, France | Arts professional
Murat Adash, UK | Dance/Performance
Sofia Gallisa Muriente &
Natalia Lassale Morillo, Puerto Rico | Film/Video
Pia Camil, Mexico | Interdisciplinary
Christine Howard Sandoval, Canada | Interdisciplinary
Mark Gibson, PA | Painting
Andy Guthrie, CA | Sound/Music
Raychael Stine, NM | Visual
Ronald Hall, NY | Visual
Angela Hennessy, CA | Visual
Priya Kambli, MO | Visual
Julia Rose Sutherland, Canada | Visual

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Wonder Dawn
Jan 24- March 1 2024
Pollock Gallery- SMU Meadows School of Art

Opening Friday Jan 26 5-7

calendar.smu.edu/site/meadows/event/vis…

La Louver:
The Flower Show--
June 8 through September 1 2023

lalouver.com/


Terry Allen
Tony Berlant
Pancrace Bessa
Mary Beyt
Édouard Boubat
Rebecca Campbell
Paul Caponigro
Nick Cave
Dale Chihuly
Eileen Cowin
Petah Coyne
Amir H. Fallah
Gajin Fujita
Charles Garabedian
Yvette Gellis
Luis González Palma
Penelope Gottlieb
Glenn Hardy Jr.
David Hockney
Dion Johnson
Flora Kao
Rachel Lachowicz
Birdie Lusch
Heather Gwen Martin
Patrick Martinez
Enrique Martínez Celaya
Tony Matelli
Henri Matisse
Thom Mayne
Jacquelyn McBain
Shaun McCracken
Lauren Doolin McMillen
Ana Mendieta
Adolphe Monticelli
Jiha Moon
Kathy Moss
Stas Orlovski
Christopher Pate
Zemer Peled
Vanessa Prager
Astrid Preston
Paula Rösler
Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin
Alison Saar
Tsherin Sherpa
Raychael Stine
Don Suggs
teamLab
Jennifer Vanderpool
Matt Wedel
Faith Wilding
Tom Wudl


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My Pet Ram
Santa Barbara

Presents:
Now you don't
Anders Lindseth and Raychael Stine
February 3 - April 10 2023

www.mypetram.com/now-you-dont

Summer exhibition:

Jeff Elrod
Johnathan Lasker
John Pomara
Raychael Stine

at Eugene Binder, Marfa TX
www.eugenebinder.com/

Vision Pool--

Raychael Stine
John Pomara
Liz Tropser

At Eugene Binder, Marfa TX
December 8 2022 through summer 2023
www.eugenebinder.com/previous-1/visionp…

NADA NYC
Pier 36
May 4 - 8 2022
Booth 3.06 Emma Gray HQ/ 5 car Garage
Raychael Stine and Leena Similu


Dairy Arts Center:
Traveling Exhibition
July 22 - September 7 2022
thedairy.org/traveling_exhibition/


Adventure painters of the Southwest:
hyperallergic.com/771271/adventure-pain…

Flower Shop @ smoke the moon
March 11 - April 11 2022
www.smokethemoon.com/exhibitions/flower…

Richard Levy Gallery
Another World
January 19 - March 25th 2022
levygallery.com/artist/another-world/

hyperallergic.com/709740/transcendental…

Five Car Garage is thrilled to present HEDON EDEN, the first solo exhibition by gallery artist New Mexico based painter Raychael Stine.
Hedon Eden is an homage to the ecstatic blooming and sensual growth of the self. The kind of transformation that ‘Spring’ expresses so precisely herself, after she has been so tightly coiled in a bud, after a long, dark and impossible winter.
Rendered through exuberant abstractions with varied applications of paint, this new body of work comprises both of Stine’s “Vision” and “Jammer” paintings which synthesize the interplay between the diffuse yet striking aural color and atmosphere of her Vision paintings, and the corporeal and immutable Jammer paintings.
With her interest in playing within, and pushing against the mechanics of the frame, the work stands firmly simultaneously as representation and abstraction—affirming itself always as an object as well. This dedication to the framing device, abstraction as representation (particularly in regards to landscape), can be found most emphatically within the work of the British artist Howard Hodgkin, whose is best known for his breech of the frame and distilling down the sensory and temporal into Lucious colorful seemly pure abstractions. In her ‘Jammer,’ series Stine, who cites Howard Hodgkin as an influence, adopts a similar approach to her work when it comes to Hodgkin’s ‘frame within a frame,’ construction of paintings. She also embodies a shared joyful use of color and variably textured brush application, but the similarity stops there. Stine sees her work with the frames, more as a threshold, or a portal and a succint gateway for her audience to step through, before fully immersing themselves into her vivaciously built painterly universe.
Once inside her screen within a screen, the artist’s vocabulary is on full volume, with thick muscular paint confidently slashes across the canvas with ecstatic colors punctuated with spritely petals, rainbows, tromp l’oeil teardrops and ‘secret’ dogs with hidden snouts poking through the brush marks. As Stine successfully brings her viewer into her land, she likes to keep the playful energy going, reminding her lookers of the frame and our larger awareness that they are still on the realm of being inside a picture.
The tempo is gentler in the ‘Vision’ paintings, where Stine incorporates time, light, and space from memory, from pictures. They mark a transitional space between material and picture, object/image and painting. The ‘Vision’ is a direct nod to the actual processes of vision-focus in the foreground on the subject, and diffuse in the back. It suggests an unclear amount of depth, and it is the in-between depth that Stine is most interested in having us float about in. This transitional and transformative space tends to be the subject of the vision paintings themselves.
In Hedon Edon, Stine dispenses through her paintings the sensate charges of play and desire, calling up the regenerative power of nature to capture this hedonistic expression, that primates and vegetable/flower forms have no fear or repression in displaying. Everything is in full bloom in this universe and we are invited to the dance.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anias Nin











B 1981 Cleveland Ohio. Stine’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Art Palace Gallery Houston TX, Richard Levy Gallery, ABQ NM; Eugene Binder Gallery Marfa TX; Marty Walker Gallery Dallas TX, Road Agent Gallery Dallas TX, and group and two person exhibitions at Five Car Garage, Los Angeles CA; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL; Common People in Brooklyn NY, Denise Bibro Gallery in New York NY; D.Berman Gallery in Austin TX; Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas TX; Gallery 400, Leviton A + D Gallery Chicago, and Jekyll and Hyde Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, and others. Her work has been reviewed in KCRW Art Insider LA, Glasstire, New City Chicago, Bad At Sports, Southwest Contemporary, THE magazine, TX Arts and Culture, NY Magazine, Artlies, Houston Chronicle, and others. Stine was selected for New American Paintings Issues 132, 120 and 78 where she was awarded Juror’s Pick, the New Insight Exhibition at Art Chicago, and her work was exhibited in the Texas Biennial 2008. She is a recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art Degoylier Grant, the Stone Award Scholarship at UIC, and the Gendler Fellowship as artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. A two time Joan Mitchell painter and sculptor award nominee, Raychael Stine is currently Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico

Visions and Structures

a two person show with
Raychael Stine and David MacDonald
www.davidmcdonaldart.com/

at

Five Car Garage
Los Angeles

Opens Saturday September 7th 2019
12-4 pm

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please contact Emma Gray for more information and for directions to the gallery-

Info@emmagrayhq.com

Cheers!!

Oneiric Landscapes

at

Five Car Garage
Los Angeles

with Sara Kathryn Arledge, Trisha Baga, David McDonald, Alexandra Grant, Greg Ito, Jasmine Little, Tahnee Lonsdale, L, Aubrey Ingmar Manson, Max Maslansky, David McDonald, Alan Prazniak, Raychael Stine and Flora Wiegmann.



Opens Saturday March 23 12- 3
and runs through May 7 2019

emmagrayhq.com/

Info@emmagrayhq.com

a river is a river not a line

Solo exhibition-
Opens April 20th and runs through May 25th
with a reception May 12th
6-8 pm

at Richard Levy Galery

514 Central Ave SW
ABQ NM 87102

info@levygallery.com
505.766.9888


www.levygallery.com/current/index.html

Raychael Stine
River Jammers

Square Dance step 2

as part of DEASIL project Square Dance
in collaboration with Barry Whistler Gallery

Opening Reception Thursday April 12, 3-5:30pm
at Barry Whistler Gallery
315 Cole Street, #120
Dallas, TX 75207

www.deasil.art/projects

How Now Snarly Yow
Opens October 7th and runs through fall/winter 2017

Eugene Binder Gallery

218 N Highland Ave. Marfa, Texas
P.O. Box 1632 Marfa, TX 79843-1632
432.729.3900
eugenebinderart@gmail.com

www.eugenebinder.com/


Look out for my work in New American Paintings #132
On newsstands October 2017
newamericanpaintings.com/



CRITICAL MASS
Alum of UTdallas Exhibition
opens at U T Dallas SP/N Gallery
October 1 - with a reception October 1, 4 - 7 pm

3020 Steward Drive,
Richardson TX 75080

Higher Love
Opens March 9th and runs through April 15 2017
There will be a gallery talk with Christina Rees and I on Saturday March 11th at 1 pm.

Art Palace Gallery

INFO@ARTPALACEGALLERY.COM
3913 MAIN STREET
HOUSTON, TX 77002
832.390.1278

artpalacegallery.com/

If you are at VOLTA- Art Palace with artist Deborah Roberts is featured in the special section "Your body is a battleground" Curated by Wendy Vogle



February 2016

"Snicket"
Central Features

www.centralfeatures.com/


514 Central Ave SW, #2,
Albuquerque, NM 87102




"Abstraction: A Visual Language"
runs 6/12 - 7/31 2015

Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 N. Peoria St
Chicago IL 60607
www.rhoffmangallery.com

and-

This fall, look for my work in New American Paintings #120 !








"Chuparrosa"
Art Palace Gallery
February 20 to March 27th
artpalacegallery.com


was chosen #1 pick on Glasstire- week of March 5
glasstire.com/2015/03/05/top-five-march…

and reviewed in Arts and Culture Magazine by Charisse Pearlina Weston Here:
artsandculturetx.com/the-fantastical-wo…

There is also a nice catalog made by Art Palace on occasion of the exhibition, with an essay by Nancy Zastudil.




The small exhibition, "Pickle and the Summer of Rainbows" at Pacific Exhibits was selected as a top 5 show in 2014 by Claude Smith on the New American Painting Blog:

www.newamericanpaintings.com/blog/nap-c…







"my little dust"
Inpost Artspace
opens September 5-Oct 31st
www.outpostspace.org/pages/inpost-artsp…

and a small installation at
Pacific Exhibits
pacificexhibits.com/future.html

both curated by the awesome Nancy Zastudil
www.thenecessarian.com

newamericanpaintings.com/blog/conversat…

I really love talking with Arthur Pena, and our conversation regarding love and painting was published on the New American Paintings Blog this morning.

"TO EACH THEIR OWN"

Opens January 17th at
Art Palace

and:

Come by for a drink and a sneak peak!

Thursday, Jan 9th (6-8:30pm)
The Viewing Room
1619 Cesar Chavez
Austin TX


Mike Beradino
Elaine Bradford
The Bridge Club
Jeffrey Dell
Nathan Green
Charlie Morris
Jim Nolan
Linda Post
Barry Stone
Raychael Stine
Kyle Young
Eric Zimmerman

"A little ways away from everywhere" is up at Art Palace Gallery in Houston until December 21, 2013.

artpalacegallery.com


I am so excited about the show and we have been receiving some great press:


artsandculturetx.com/every-which-way/


glasstire.com/2013/11/13/raychael-stine…


www.chron.com/entertainment/arts-theate…

And stay tuned for more....

I will post images of the exhibition soon, but for now you can see images of new work on the Art Palace website.

Some things coming up:

"Dig a Hole Forever"

Eugene Binder Gallery
218 Highland St Marfa, TX 79843
(432) 729-3900

http://www.eugenebinder.com

Opens October 12 and will run through the fall and early winter--
Come out during Chinati Weekend and play


Also,

"Object, Object!"
A show of small works (with TONS of great artists included)

opens November 16th at

Helmuth Projects
1827 5th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101

http://helmuth-projects.com



Also- as of August- I am newly appointed Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico Department of Art and Art History.

(I am a professor, ya'll)

http://art.unm.edu/people/faculty/stine.raychael.html

Hello Albuquerque. You are beautiful. I am happy.

One last thing:

Images from "carry on daisies"at Jekyll and Hyde in Chicago back in June
are now up on the site,
http://jekyllhydepark.tumblr.com

and from "Same Roof" at the Safe Room Gallery in Dallas, Texas-
A two person exhibition with my partner Titus O'Brien, that was up through July.

If you are going to Miami next week (December4-9) you can find my work along with other extra great work by Bret Slater, Jay Shinn and Wayne White (among others) at Miami Project in the Marty Walker Gallery booth 205.

http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/new-american-paintings-past-featured-artists-in-miami/

http://www.miami-project.com/miami

I am currently an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.- September 6th through December 1st.
http://www.bemiscenter.org/

It is an amazing place-
check out the website for Art Talk dates, podcasts, video's, Auction information, and Open Studio announcements. We will be having one November 10th.


"Hounds of Love"
opens at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas, Texas
October 13th.
more info to come.

It is a new year, and new things are happening!

If you are in Marfa, please stop by and see "Five Points West", a group exhibition at Eugene Binder Gallery with Cassandra Emswiler, Michelle Mackey, Lisa Nersessova, and Hillary Holsonback.

www.eugenebinder.com

In March, I will be included in "Looking at Animals" at Gallery 219 at Eastfield College in Dallas, Texas. The show is curated by Director Iris Bechtol and will include Trish Igo and Jill O'Brien, Allison Hunter, Buster Graybill and Jules Buck Jones.


Brand 10 Art Space in Fort Worth Texas is planning a group show, "Midnight Garden", That is curated by Christine Bisetto, in August.

http://web.me.com/brand10/website/Showing.html

Finally, in the upcoming year, tentatively fall, Marty Walker and I are devising plans for a solo show in her gallery that should be a blast to make happen. I am very excited to be working with her.

http://martywalkergallery.com/

Hi all,

I have a show at Eugene Binder in Marfa that will be up until mid summer.
I will update my site when I have a chance, it is long overdue,
Check out Eugene's Website under "current exhibiton" for shots of the show and to read the wonderful essay he put together.

www.eugenebinder.com