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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Winter 2024 

At Once Retro And Cutting Edge
2022©
Flashe, acrylic ink, gouache on Arches Aquarelle paper
30H x 22W inches

Food, Energy, Medicine, and Income
2023©
Flashe, acrylic ink, gouache on Arches paper
30H x 22W inches

A Sort of Confession
2022©
Flashe, acrylic ink, color pencil on Arches Aquarelle paper
30H x 22W inches

They’re Not Lost, They’re Adapting
2022©
Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper
30H x 22W inches

Spring 2023

Gerri Rachins – Some Very Iffy Iffy Math
2022, Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper,
30 x 22 inches

Spring 2023

Gerri Rachins – Pollinator Rat
2022, Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper,
30 x 22 inches

Spring 2023

Gerri Rachins – Perserverance (Percy for Short)
2022, Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper,
30 x 22 inches

Spring 2023

Gerri Rachins – Explanations May Coexist
2022, Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper,
30 x 22 inches

Spring 2023

Gerri Rachins – Baby Teeth
2022, Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper,
30 x 22 inches

Spring 2023

No Need to Panic, 2021

Flashe, ink, acrylic, collage on Arches Aquarelle paper.

30″ x 22″

Boston, MA

December 2021 Exhibition Catalogue

“This work merges my drawing, painting and collage practices to reflect the chaos and disorder of the past year, with glimmers of hope for the future. It represents how humanity has been connected globally throughout this time.”

Fractured Emergence, 2021

Flashe, ink, acrylic on Arches Aquarelle paper.

30″ x 22″

Boston, MA

 January 2022 Catalogue

“These works merges my drawing, painting and collage practices to reflect the chaos and disorder of the past few years, with glimmers of hope for the future. It represents how humanity has been connected globally throughout this time.”

Untitled 081, 2021

Flashe paint, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper.

30″ x 22″

Boston, MA

FEBRUARY 2022 Exhibition Catalogue

“Responding to the ever-changing environment that we live in now, I allow chance to be more present in my studio practice. These new mixed media paintings on paper have a fluid composition, often with contrasting colors, reflecting on the chaos of the past year. With glimmers of hope for the future, these represent how humanity is connected globally throughout this time.”

Solving Secrets, 2021

Flashe paint, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper.

30″ x 22″

Boston, MA

March 2022 CATALOGUE

“This work merges my drawing, painting and collage practices to reflect the chaos and disorder of the past two years, with glimmers of hope for the future. It represents how humanity has been connected globally throughout this time.”

Solo exhibition:“Gerri Rachins: 20 Year Retrospective”, at Mobilia Gallery, in Cambridge, MA, from March 24th through April 30th. 

Featuring Rachins mixed media works, including paintings, drawings and collages from over two decades. 

For viewings, please contact Mobilia for an appointment at http://www.mobilia-gallery.com/visit/contact/ 

A Sobering Revelation

Flashe, ink, acrylic, collage on Arches Aquarelle paper.

30″ x 22″

Boston, MA

June 2022 Exhibition Catalogue

“I began this painting late last summer while I was on Cape Cod, brought in back into my studio in Boston and completed it in late Fall.  It is an unusual painting for me, considering  the landscape-like references.”

Pervasive Misconception

Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper.

30 x 22 inches

September 2022 Exhibition Catalogue

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