Raychael Stine, Professor of Painting and Drawing, recently created a show titled “Falls and Springs and Stardust Things” at the Cris Worley Fine Arts Gallery in Texas. Stine makes 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. This is all represented in her latest exhibit, and especially in one of her paintings at the exhibit titled, Time Passages (the universe she is beautiful beautiful beautiful), 2025, acrylic and oil on canvas. Matthew Bourbon wrote an article for Glasstire, an organization that exists to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas, titled “One Work, Shot Take: Raychael Stine at Cris Worley Fine Arts.” Here he writes how he was lured into the display, but how he found himself fixated on Time Passages (the universe she is beautiful beautiful beautiful) 2025. He says the following with regards to this piece, “While the colors in this particular painting are mostly night shades set in deep tones, the top of the painting reads like the bending of bright light along the stratosphere before an astronaut enters orbit. That’s how Stine balances it all; she depicts the stuff of our lives like our companion dogs or our delight in beautiful flowers and then cracks our vision open into the eternity of materials that make up the firmament above and within.” He also makes a remark about Stine’s painting technique also by saying, “Perhaps the main source of Stine’s strength as an artist is the incredible dexterity in her paint application; it makes viewing her exuberant paintings a welcome indulgence. She adroitly slows our examination by layering thick impasto and then speeds our looking with myriad fuzzy lines flowing down the canvas like waterfalls.” We are so grateful to have her here be a part of the Art Department sharing her strengths with her students and teaching them to find their own strength as well.
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READ MORE about Matthew Bourbon’s review at https://glasstire.com/2025/10/04/one-work-short-take-raychael-stine-at-cris-worley-gallery/
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