Raychael Stine

Biography
Raychael Stine seamlessly intertwines representational imagery and dramatic abstract gestures in her paintings.

In Yows and Jammers Stine begins with paintings made directly on postcards of landscapes and rivers and then makes larger paintings based on these cards. She thinks about her representations of nature as abstractions. Her paintings are self-referential, repetitive, and constantly evolving.

In her vision paintings series, Stine explores the mechanics and limitations of vision. By recording color and light, she unveils the slippage of visual thresholds. Each composition is contained in a portal-like border of color gradients.

Throughout her practice, Stine’s paintings often include references to dogs, whether it be a subtle floppy-eared silhouette in the gestural marks on the top layer of the canvas or a realistic snout. Her masterful technique hides the abstract dog form in plain sight. Painting pets is often regarded as taboo and sentimental making Stine’s work subversive in nature.

Raychael Stine’s work was published in multiple issues of New American Paintings and included in the Texas Biennial. She is a recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art Degoylier Grant, the Stone Award Scholarship at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Gendler Fellowship as artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha. Stine is an assistant professor of painting and drawing at the University of New Mexico.

“The gradient for me is more about old-school painting devices, areas around the edge that used to be naturalistic, kind of trompe l’oeil floats. So, rather than trying to create a frame of a narrow space behind the painting, so that it looks like a painting of a painting, and actually represents weird, narrow passages of space, I started thinking about creating that same kind of edge—but what if it didn’t depict naturalistic space and instead was pushing up against other areas? So the paintings are often called Jammers or Yows”.
-Raychael Stine, studio visit interview, THE Magazine

Education
2010 
M.F.A. Studio Art, Painting, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

2003
B.A. Arts and Performance, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

Solo Exhibitions
2021
HEDON EDEN, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA

2020
Raychael Stine Works on Paper, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA

2018
the river is a river, not a line, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
River Jammers, DEASIL hosted by Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

2017
How Now Snarly Yow, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX 2017 Higher Love, Art Palace, Houston, TX

2016
Snicket, Central Features, Albuquerque, NM

2015
Chuparrosa, Art Palace, Houston, TX

2014
Pickle and the summer of rainbows, Pacific Exhibits, Albuquerque, NM
my little dust, Inpost Artspace, Albuquerque, NM

2013
A little ways away from everywhere, Art Palace, Houston, TX
Dig a Hole Forever, Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX
carry on daisies, Jekyll and Hyde, Chicago, IL

2012
Hounds of Love, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas TX

2011
Whistle in the Dark, M Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Whipper-in, Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX

2010
Paintings: Raychael Stine, McAninch Arts Center Lobby Gallery, College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, IL

2007
Dogs, Rats, and Weasels, Road Agent Gallery, Dallas, TX

2006
Ambush(Stand and Deliver: Your Money or Your Life), Road Agent Gallery, Dallas, TX

2003
It’s too late to phone her now, UT Dallas Mezzanine Gallery, Richardson, TX

Group Exhibitions
2022
Another World,Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Flower Shop, Smoke The Moon, Santa Fe, NM

2021
Made in ABQ, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Winter in the Valley, The Valley Gallery, Taos, NM

2019
Ho hum All Ye Faithful,  Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
to the moon and back, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Visions + Structures, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
The Oneiric Landscape, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
Pink, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX

2018
A Day Without Postmodern Irony, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX

2017
Human After All, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX
CRITICAL MASS, SP/N Gallery, UT Dallas, Richardson, TX

2016
Out of Many, One, UNM Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
Structural Integrity, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX

2015
I Amaze Myself, Common People, Brooklyn, NY
Abstraction: A Visual Language, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2014
Carte Blanche, Central Features, Albuquerque, NM
Summer Salts, Art Palace, Houston, TX
TO EACH THEIR OWN, Art Palace, Houston, TX

2013
Object, Object!, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Same Roof, Raychael Stine and Titus O’Brien, The Safe Room, Dallas TX
Fresh Tracks, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas TX

2012
Midnight Garden, Brand 10 Arts Space, Fort Worth, TX
30/30, One Strange Bird, Chicago, IL
Looking at Animals, Gallery 213, Eastfield College, Dallas, TX

2011
Five Points West, Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX
Composite in 3D, Autotelic Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010
Raychael Stine and Ryan Humphrey, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
New Insight, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
UIC MFA Gold, Next Fair, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Alejandro Borsani, Maria Jonsson, Orson Panetti, Raychael Stine, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
The Object of Nostalgia, Leviton A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL

2009
Snow White, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Chill, D Berman Gallery, Austin, TX
Gone to the Dogs, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
The Texas Biennial, Austin TX

2008
Collection Collection, Mess Hall, Chicago IL
Two by Two exhibition/auction for Aids and Art, Rachovsky House, Dallas, TX
New American Paintings; Western Exhibition, Open Studio’s Press
Party at the Moontower, Road Agent, Dallas, TX

2007
Road Agent: The Audience is Listening, Road Agent, Dallas, TX
Latitude and Longitude, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX

2006
Feral Nature, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Interplay, University of Texas at Dallas and University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Teenage Fan Club, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, TX

2005
Space Invaders, UT Dallas Visual Arts Gallery and Eugene Binder Gallery, Houston, TX
Contextual, Oh6 Art Collective, Casket Factory at South Side On Lamar, Dallas, TX
Mission Control, Oh6 Art collective, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Painting Attack, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
Hooch and Pooch (for Kitchen Dog Theater), Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX

2004
Super 8, Oh6 art collective, Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
Well, Red, Oh6 art collective, Casket Factory, Dallas, TX

2003
Human Interest, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX
There’s no home for you here, University of Texas at Dallas Visual Arts Gallery, Richardson, TX

2002
Turn it up, University of Texas at Dallas Visual Arts Gallery, Richardson, TX

2001
Oxygen, University of Texas at Dallas Visual Arts Gallery, Richardson, TX
Blink/Blank, University of Texas at Dallas Mezzanine Gallery, Richardson TX

Awards
2021
100 W. Corsicana Artist Residency, Corsicana, TX

2018
Joan Mitchell Foundations Painter and Sculptor Grant Nominee

2016
Silver Streak Residency, Bozeman, MT

2014
Jentel Foundation Residency, Banner, WY

2012
Bemis Contemporary Arts Center Residency, Omaha, NE
Gendler Fellow, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE

2010
Union League Civic Arts Competition
New Insight Exhibition, Curator: Susanne Ghez, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Next and Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Award Nominee

2009
Hot Media Series, “Animal Sounds” Lecture, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Board of Trustees Full Tuition Scholarship, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

2008
Board of Trustees Full Tuition Scholarship, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Stone Award Scholarship, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Jurors Pick, New American Paintings #78, Western Exhibition. Open Studio’s Press
Studio Assistant, Richard Patterson, Painter, London. ( YBA, Sensation, etc.)

2006
Texas Art Prize Nominee

2005
DeGoyler Grant, Dallas Museum of Art

2003
Honors Graduate, Magna cum laude, University of Texas at Dallas

2002
Assistant to Sol Lewitt — Dallas Project, Lexington Street, Dallas

2001
Brice Jordan Scholarship, Excellence in the Arts

1999
Full Academic Excellence Scholarship, UT Dallas

1999
Deans Award, Texas Visual Arts Association

Press
2022
Nancy Zastudil, Transcendental Painting Lives on in New Mexico and Beyond, Hyperallergic, February 8

2021
Nancy Zastudil, Review: Thirtieth Anniversary Show at Richard Levy Gallery, Southwest Contemporary, June 18
Maria Manuela, Five Things to Do This Weekend, New Mexico Magazine, June 18
Bridgette M. Redman, Five Car Garage Celebrates the Energy of Artists in Exhibitions,The Argonaout, May 19

2020
Melinda Frame, For the Record: Albuquerque Artists During COVID-19, CABTV, Artist interview, Spring
Kathleen Roberts, Canine inspired: Raychael Stine takes her abstract expressionist art to the next level, Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 7

2019
Lindsay Preston Zappas, Top 3 This Week, Visions and Structures at Five Car Garage, K.C.R.W Art Insider, October 8

2018
Chelsea Weathers, Studio Visit, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, June 29

2017
Jenn Shapland, Field Report: Marfa, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, November
New American Paintings Issue 132, Western Exhibition, Open Studio Press

2016
Kathleen Roberts, UNM’s Faculty show features 29 artists, Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 25

2015
 New American Paintings Issue 120, Western Exhibition, Open Studio Press
Abstraction: a visual language: Recommended, Review, New City Art, Chicago IL, June 30
Top 5 in Texas March 5th, Glasstire Texas: Visual Arts News and Reviews, www.glasstire.com
Cherise Perlina Weston, The Fantastical World of Hummingbirds, Arts and Culture Magazine Texas, March 10
Nancy Zastudil, Raychael Stine: Chuparrosa, Exhibition Catalog Essay, Art Palace
Claude Smith, Top 5 shows of 2014, New American Paintings Blog feature, Fall

2014
Arthur Pena, A Conversation, Raychael Stine, New American Paintings blog feature, Spring

2013
Joshua Fischer, Twofer! Art with dogs: William Wegman and Raychael Stine, Glasstire Texas: Visual Arts News and Reviews, December 16
Nancy Zastudil, Every which way, Arts and Culture Magazine Texas, December 3
Bill Davenport, A little bit of everything at Art Palace, Glasstire Texas: Visual Arts News and Reviews, November 13
Molly Glentzer, Dachshunds help unleash inspiration, Houston Chronicle, November 8
Top 5 in Texas, October 30-November 5, Glasstire Texas: Visual Arts News and Reviews, October 30
Arthur Pena, Dallas Roll Call, New American Painting’s Blog, May 6
Thomas Williams, Same Roof @ the Safe Room Gallery, Glasstire Texas: Visual Arts News and Reviews, July 6
Todd Camplin, Fresh Tracks, and Abstract Dialog, Modern Dallas

2011
Eugene Binder, Raychael Stine, Whipper-in, The Big Bend Sentinel, April 17
Artist’s you should know: Pamela Fraser’s Picks, Chicago Art Magazine, February 8
The Sketchbook Project: Art House Co-op, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
The Gaze: Raychael Stine “Saturn Series”, Composite Magazine, Issue 2, January 24

2010
Claudine Ise, Portrait of the Artist: Raychael Stine, New City Art, Chicago, IL, October 18
Claudine Ise, The Object of Nostalgia, Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Bad at Sports, February 15
Lance Winn and Renee Marquez,  The Object of Nostalgia, Exhibition Catalog essay, Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, IL
Wayne Allan Brenner, Chill, D Berman Gallery, Austin TX, Austin Chronicle, January 8

2009
J.R. Compton,  Art Here lately, Dallas Artists in the Texas Biennial, Dallas Arts Review

2008
John Zotos, Texas Seen, Dallas Report: a Contemporary art Destination, New York Arts Magazine, July – August

2007
Matthew Bourbon, Review: Stine’s ‘Dogs, Rats and Weasels, KERA 90.1, All Things Considered, November 9
Yolette Garcia, Review: Raychael Stine: Dogs, Rats and Weasels, artandseek.com, November 9\\
Jennifer Medina, Dogs, Rats, and Weasels: Four Legged Focal Points, Dallas Observer, November 8
Quinn Matthews, Interview with Raychael Stine, WRR 101.1, Art Matters, November 1
Gaile Robinson, In the Galleries, Road Agent, Dogs, Rats, and Weasels, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, October 26
Charissa Terranova, Gallery Gourmet: Barry Whistler, Conduit, Road Agent, The Dallas Morning News, October 25
Glasstire Fall Preview 2007, Glasstire: Texas visual art online, September
Leslie Tellez, Five to Watch: Visual Artists, A New Breed: Raychael Stine, Painting, The Quick, May 15 (reprinted in The Dallas Morning News)

2006
Charissa Terranova, Review: Unruly Animal Spirits, Glasstire: Texas visual art online, September
Mike Daniel, ‘Road Agent Ambush’ at Road Agent, The Dallas Morning News, Guide Live, August 11

2005
Charissa Terranova, Oh6 Art Collective: Mission Control, Angstrom Gallery, Artlies, 46, Spring
Kevin Bouchard, Review: Painting Attack, Artlies, 46, Spring

2005
David Michael Perez, Review: Painting Attack, Glasstire: Texas visual art online, January

Press Release
2022 Another World at Richard Levy Gallery
2021 Made in ABQ at Richard Levy Gallery
2019 to the moon and back at Richard Levy Gallery
2018 the river is a river, not a line at Richard Levy Gallery