Gerri Rachins (b. 1955) studied at the New York Studio School while earning a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. In 2001, she earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art working in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Rachins’ large-scale drawings are included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA. Her works are held in numerous corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe including Fidelity Investments, Bain Capital, and Berkshire Partners, Boston, and Neiman Marcus, Inc., Dallas.

She is represented by Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, who recently hosted a 20-year retrospective to celebrate their long-standing representation of her work. Rachins is represented in New York by The Painting Center where she hosted her most recent solo exhibition, “ALMOST EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL”, in Fall of 2022. For over two decades, she has been on faculty at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and formerly for thirteen years at Massachusetts College of Art & Design.

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“Responding to the ever-changing environment that we live in now, I allow chance to be more present in my studio practice. Artistic investigations are the results of openly thinking through process, materials, and elements of visual language. Relying on an exploratory process, I utilize universal forces to initially guide my compositions.”

“Each work begins in the same manner. With assistance from gravity, my hands hold the edges of the paper encouraging the acrylic ink to travel. From the palimpsest of inky lines, inherent shapes are excavated, establishing an initial structure to explore. Boundaries may overlap, negate, reinforce, or intersect, resulting in an image that concedes to the coexistence of conflicting elements, questioning a world in flux.”

“In my recent body of works on paper, I select titles for each painting from my ongoing compilation of excerpts from the weekly Science section of The New York Times. These excerpts used as painting titles, exemplify the concept of meaning as contextual. They may invoke irony, paradox, and surprisingly even a sense humor in these challenging times.”         – Gerri Rachins

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