RACHINS, GERRI
Baby Teeth
Completed: 2022
Location: Cape Cod and Boston, MA
Medium:
Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper.
Dimensions:
30 x 22 inches
Keywords:
flashe, ink, acrylic, collage, painting, drawing

Some Very Iffy Iffy Math
2022
Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle paper
30 x 22 inches
Exhibition Catalogue:
Spring 2023

Explanations May Coexist
2022
Flashe, acrylic inc on Arches Aquarelle paper
30 x 22 inches
Exhibition Catalogue:
Spring 2023

Perseverance (Percy for Short)
2022
Flashe, acrylic ink on Arches Aquarelle pape
30 x 22 inches
Exhibition Catalogue:
Spring 2023

Pollinator Rat
2022
Flashe, acrylic ink, gouache on Arches Aquarelle paper.
30 x 22 inches
Exhibition Catalogue:
Gerri Rachins
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
More work by Gerri Rachins.

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
“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
“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

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