Rachel Steely
Sight/ Insight will be at the Stutz Art Space from November 6-25, 2009. The show incorporates a variety of styles ranging from abstract slashes of paint, abstract quilted fabric, exaggerated recognizable forms, jewelry, and paintings and photographs that display clearly recognizable subjects...
Rachel Steely
Butterfly Clover Three Daisy Jazz During the month of November, stop by Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage to see, Nerve, a collection of some of the gallery owner’s personal work. Hi...
Emily

Emily rachel - absolutely stunning work. just amazing. so proud of you and where you're going with your art.

1 listopada o 03:05 · Zgłoś
Rachel Steely

Rachel Steely
There is something beautiful about the process of forming of ideas, thoughts, and art. At a gallery or museum one can sometimes see the development of a series by viewing its parts, but this process is still fairly opaque with only a showing of the final work. Thankfully artist blogs are full of studies showing their ...process. Below I have a series of images showing a glimpse of my process as I created three of my recent butterfly paintings.Więcej...

Rachel Steely
There is something beautiful about the process of forming of ideas, thoughts, and art. At a gallery or museum one can sometimes see the development of a series by viewing its parts, but this process is still fairly opaque with only a showing of the final work...
Rachel Steely
My three latest butterfly works, After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis will be on display this Saturday, October 19th from 8pm to 2am at Oranje, a contemporary art & music event. Wug Laku of Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage is representing my work at booth 17. ...
Marcia Steely Parrotte

Marcia Steely Parrotte Rachel - I thought of you when I read this saying today:
PASSION: "The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth, which sweeps you along in his passion” -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

16 września o 09:39 · Zgłoś
Rachel Steely
More thoughts on works by Caspar David Friedrich from the Hermitage. The Dreamer sits on a window ledge of a ruin. He is not inside the ruin nor is he outside the ruin. Inside the ruin are dead trees, while outside life thrives. The dreamer looks sideways, neither out of the ruin nor into the ruin...
Barbara Steely Ford

Barbara Steely Ford Thanks Rachel. I would never ever have seen these paintings but for your info on the Traveling Exhibit. It would be nice to see them "in person" -- but I totally loved the "Swans" picture. Beautiful.

3 września o 20:26 · Zgłoś
Rachel Steely
While in an art museum in the Netherlands last fall I noticed a sign on a cork board advertising a special Exhibit at The Hermitage Museum of Amsterdam. I was excited to see that it was a show of work by an nineteenth century artist whose work I have long been drawn to, Caspar David Friedrich...
Rachel Steely
I have three of my butterfly paintings in the 2009 IndyFringe Festival. Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis were mentioned in my prior post, Trio of Painted Lady Butterflies. You can see thumbnails in that post...
Sylvia Anne Patterson Scott

Sylvia Anne Patterson Scott Hi, Rachel,
Love your work! Keep me posted, OK? New fan, Sylvia Scott

3 sierpnia o 19:53 · Zgłoś
Rachel Steely
In the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Rotterdam art museum, I saw many good works of art last fall including the interesting piece by René Magritte entitled La Reproduction Interdite....
Rachel Steely
These three paintings are inspired by the painted lady butterfly. I have entitled them temporarily (left to right): After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis. These titles have their roots in scientific classification, common association, and/or metaphors...
Rachel Steely
Reflections, time, and speed are ideas that I am interested in that are elements in this photograph. I saw the idea behind this image on my first day in the Netherlands last autumn. I decided to attempt to capture this photograph the next time I saw it...