RACHELLE KRIEGER | PRESS
August 2011
5th Annual
Artist VIP List,
by Nada Marjanovich
Long Island Pulse Magazine
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"It takes a pretty bold person to attempt to capture the sky. And a pretty humble artist to catch it. It’s a gentle balance and it is the aim of this painter who uses sumi-e ink and watercolors, drawing, scraping and scratching at the boards that host her exploration of surrealism: 'I’m trying to get a little lyrical.' Her work has been primarily about nature, grouping series in periods of a couple of years to a handful, but it is the recent shifts in technique and approach that have brought a new direction to her renderings.
Fundamentally, change first manifested in the focus of her subjects. Krieger went from concentrating on structured and organized formal gardens to the 'chaos and decay' that time brings about in nature. The shift happened as a matter of serendipity, while the artist was painting at sands point preserve, but it took hold viscerally for a woman whose main life events have coincided with storms. The very essence of nature’s yin-yang is now at her wrist as she couples the formalism of landscape plein air painting with evocative abstraction.
Her springboard is 'the power of the storm, and of nature, as a metaphor for our lives.' The panels are her interpretations of breadth and 'the expansion of breath' that is physiologically experienced when contemplating the sky, whether it be moody or gentle; though her tendency is towards the stormy. The works are not sad, though, and Rachelle feels 'people will relate to the storminess—on a personal level—and also respond to the expansiveness.' " —Nada Marjanovich
July 2011
"Summer Selects" Exhibit at
Susan Eley
Fine Art, NYC
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Listings: NY ArtBeat
similar blues and grays, in which she explores air and breath." —Susan Eley
May 2011
"NO RULES" Exhibit at Dorian Grey Gallery, NYC
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LI Patch
Port Washington News
Listings: ArtSlant
NY ArtBeat
MelanieMusings2
ArtCat
Lavish Magazine
EAST VILLAGE, NY- Borrowing from the famous quote by Helen Frankenthaler, “There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen…” the Dorian Grey Gallery is proud to present our next exhibition: NO RULES, East 9th Street Revisited, 1951-2011. This exhibition celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the ground breaking East Ninth Street Show by featuring many of the pioneering women who participated in that historic group show here on E. 9th Street in 1951. Together works by these legendary painters are displayed alongside the next generation of female artists who continue the tradition of going against the “rules” of painting and sculpture. A diverse selection of work are presented by such noted talents such as Elaine deKooning, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Claire Falkenstein, Judith Pfaff, Erin Hudak, Cecile Brunswick, Rebecca Alston, Shellie Schneider, Rachelle Krieger, and Susan Libby Siegel.
September 2010
The Heckscher Museum of Art — Long Island Biennial
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LI Pulse Magazine
Newsday
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City Guide NY
LI Patch
artdaily.org
January 2010
Exhibit at Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
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NY Gallery Guide
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The Art Stomp
"Much of Rachelle Krieger’s recent series was painted and completed en plein air at Sands Point Preserve near her home in Port Washington, NY. At times, the weather was so inclement that she had to tie the canvases to the easel to prevent them from blowing away.
Favoring loose, bold brushwork, Krieger captures the essence of a landscape through a reductive process that reveals the structural essence of trees, rocks and other natural elements in her surroundings. This method results in near abstractions of particular places. Krieger’s rich palette, textured surfaces and raw, stormy brushwork evoke the paintings of Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning." —Susan Eley
February 2010
Fundraiser/Exhibit at
Panama Hatties, NY
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Newsday
LI Patch
June 2007
Port Washington
Public Library Gallery
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