CRIS WORLEY FINE ARTS

Robert Sagerman
Fieldwork: Flows, Thickets, Clearings, Strata

March 30 – May 4, 2024

Cris Worley Fine Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of Robert Sagerman|Fieldwork: Flows, Thickets, Clearings, Strata. The exhibition will open with an artist’s reception on Saturday, March 30th, from 4­­–7 pm, and will run through May 4th. The event is free and open to the public. This is the New Jersey- based artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Robert Sagerman’s paintings reflect the artist’s longstanding fascination with how, in the realm of art, the material turns symbolic to transcend its physical constraints. Sagerman’s paintings on canvas—lusciously weighted with thousands of daubs of paint—take us somewhere immaterial yet nonetheless fully felt. The assertive materiality of Sagerman’s works creates patterned movements that evoke the natural world, that remind us of the movement of water, of wind, of light. Their color gradations reflect the shifting shadows and radiance of the natural world at dawn and sunset.

These universal qualities reflect Sagerman’s concern with what painting can communicate across time and space, and also across belief systems. As Sagerman writes, “In painting there is only materiality at hand, even if one wishes to embody something of the immaterial.” There is no denying the physical sphere; to accept it is to be mindful. But this anchor doesn’t stop us from striving to rise above the hard facts of our corporeal existence, to land somewhere more connective and universal.

Robert Sagerman was born in Queens, NY and currently works in rural New Jersey. He received his BFA and MFA from Pratt Institute. He also holds an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute as well as an MA in Religious Studies and a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University. Exhibitions include: Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany; Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Sagerman’s work has been reviewed by Art in America, NY Arts Magazine, Kunstforum International, Art News and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, among many others. His work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR); The Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum (Hagen, Germany); and the Museum Für Konkrete Kunst (Ingolstadt, Germany), as well as other notable corporate and private collections.

Raychael Stine
Wonder Dawn

March 30 – May 4, 2024

Cris Worley Fine Arts is pleased to announce our first exhibition of New Mexico based artist, Raychael Stine. The exhibition, entitled, Wonder Dawn, will open with an artist’s reception on Saturday, March 30th, from 4–7 pm, and will run through May 4th. On Saturday, April 20th Stine will return to give an Artist Talk at 4pm. Both events are free and open to the public.

Raychael Stine makes luscious, joyful paintings that integrate multiple painterly languages and approaches to mark, texture, and levels of visual legibility, allowing for playful slippage between formal and material abstraction and traditional devices of painterly representation. She works in thematic series: Vision paintings, Jammer paintings, and Middle Lovers each of which make up this exhibition.

Color schemes come from looking at photographs, digital translations and screens, natural and artificial shadows and light, working plein-air, flowers, skies, dogs, hummingbirds, rainbows, postcards, other paintings. Sometimes it is direct, and encapsulates color from observation and translation, and other times the color is intuitive—riffing off of undertone, and splaying color in ecstatic prismatic grades. Movement is inspired by sensual experiences like sniffing, kissing, and crying. A trompe l’oeil teardrop becomes a dog’s ear or a petal. A cosmos flower is a portal into the greater cosmos. Stine prefers sensory embodied experience rather than rational linear approaches to making. Joy and pleasure are her compass.

Raychael Stine was born in Chardon, Ohiom and currently works alongside her two dogs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her BA at UT Dallas, and her MFA at UIC in Chicago.

Her work has been widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions with Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA; Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX; My Pet Ram, Santa Barbara, CA; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; Art Palace, Houston, TX; Road Agent, Dallas, TX. Group exhibitions include L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL; Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM; The Valley, Taos, NM; 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX; and others. Her work has been included in national shows such as NADA: NY, The Texas Biennial, NEXT at Art Chicago, and Art on Paper, NY. Stine’s work has been featured in New American Paintings Issues #132, #120 and #78, along with reviews, interviews and features in publications such as Hyperallergic, New City Chicago, Bad At Sports, Arts + Culture Texas, Glasstire, NY Arts Magazine, Artlies, Southwest Contemporary, The Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, and The Albuquerque Journal. Stine has received awards and residencies including 100 West Corsicana, Bemis, Jentel, and the Dallas Museum of Art DeGoyler Grant. In 2024 she will be a resident at Headlands Center for the Arts in the Bay Area. Stine is a three-time Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee.

Stine is Associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of New Mexico where she has taught since 2013. In addition to teaching all levels of painting and drawing, she guides non-traditional plein-air painting courses where students visit sites across the Southwest.

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