Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present a series of recent plein air paintings by Rachel Rickert. After ten years of living and studying in New York City Rickert has moved out west to where she first discovered her artistic skills and desire to pursue her artistic practice when she visited as a teenager. These twelve paintings were all painted in Joshua Tree over the course of the last year as Rickert settled into her new home and discovered her new surroundings.
Rachel Rickert Golden Hour, 2023 Oil on panel 9h x 12w in / 22.86h x 30.48w cm RR-033
Rachel Rickert photographed by Matt Stomper in Joshua Tree, CA 2023
“With plein air painting, the work is not simply a moment. The painting is a time-lapse, a collection of moments across changing light, weather, and time of day. Each painting is completely based on perception, on my experience looking at the land and being within it, but presents an image that never existed. One painting may hold hours of time. It may show the sky as it changed over the course of a sunset, never one second of the sunset. It feels magical for this reason. Time passing, made physical.”- Rachel Rickert
Rachel Rickert Salvation, 2022 Oil on panel 7h x 5w in / 17.78h x 12.70w cm RR-020
Rachel Rickert photographed by Matt Stomper in Joshua Tree, CA 2023
Rachel Rickert Deep Sky, 2023 Oil on panel 7h x 5w in / 17.78h x 12.70w cm RR-024
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