Chicago (April 16, 2013)- Jekyll & Hyde presents a new solo project by Raychael Stine titled carry on daises that explores tensions within painterly composition, representation and her complicated relationship with her dog and muse, Pickle.

Stine examines the last weeks before Pickle’s passing, and how paint can picture, remember, reconstruct and distill shared experience in an attempt to record the emotional and physical shift that happens from life to death. The collection of paintings features both reoccurring imagery and formal repetition, some of which include dogs, mountain-like piles, skins, veils, blankets, masks, hoods, portraits, and pictures of paint, painted pictures and paintings of paintings. The overall content of the project is dynamic, shifting through a vibrant range of psychological spaces and color relationships that question paint as a recording device for sensate experiences and celebration as a bittersweet part of mourning. Following in the long tradition of Chicago home galleries, Jekyll & Hyde provides an apt resting place for Carry on daisies, hanging the art in a domestic space that doubles as a site for viewing.

About the Artist:

Raychael Stine (b 1981) is an artist living and working in Chicago, IL. She holds a BA from The University of Texas at Dallas and an MFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago. Stine’s work has been exhibited at Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas TX, Road Agent Gallery, Dallas TX, Barry Whistler Gallery Dallas TX, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa TX, D Berman Gallery, Austin TX, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York NY, The Mc Anninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL, Gallery 400 Chicago, IL, Leviton A + D Gallery, Chicago IL and others. Stine was selected for the New insight exhibition at Art Chicago 2010, New American Paintings Issue 78 where she was awarded Juror’s Pick, and The Texas Biennial, 2009. In 2005 she was a recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art Degoylier Grant, and in 2008, the Stone Award Scholarship at UIC. In the Fall of 2012 Stine was awarded Gendler Fellowship and was an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. She is currently teaching painting and drawing at the Chicago High School for the Arts.

Jekyll & Hyde is a gallery housed on the first floor of a historic Chicago greystone. The space is doubles as the home of Veronica Vegna and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford. Programming focuses primarily on solo projects and gives artists the freedom to explore work outside of a commercial setting.

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