Raychael Stine make 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.

Raychael Stine (B Chardon Ohio, 1981) BA UTDallas, MFA, UIChicago, lives in Albuquerque New Mexico in the North Valley along the river, with her dogs Mouse and Petunia. Stine is Associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of New Mexico. She is a painter through and through- with joy, pleasure, wonder, and embodied emotional intuition serving as her guiding forces. As a professor, Stine loves giving permission, teaching materials and skills, and fostering curiosity and trust in ones vision. Stine also guide non-traditional plein air studio courses where student and artists build portable studios and explore what it can be to work outside, while visiting sites across the southwest, camping, hiking and sitting. Stine prefers sensory embodied experience rather than rational linear approaches to making, exploring. Joy and pleasure are her compass.

Select exhibitions include Five Car Garage, LA; Eugene Binder, Marfa; Art Palace, Houston; L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; 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 Chicago, Texas Arts + Culture, Glasstire, NY Arts, Southwest Contemporary among others. Awards and residencies include Bemis Center, 100 West Corsicana, Jentel, The Dallas Museum of Art DeGoyler Grant, and 3 time Joan Mitchell Award nomination.