Raychael Stine (born April 19, 1981) is an American painter and educator. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is a professor at the
University of New Mexico
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Biography
Raychael Stine was born and spent her early years in
Chardon, Ohio
Chardon is a city in Geauga County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 5,242 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.Flower Mound High School. She received her BFA in painting at the
University of Texas at Dallas
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University of Illinois Chicago
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. She lives in
Albuquerque
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New Mexico
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, where she is Assistant Professor in Painting & Drawing at the
University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico (UNM; ) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Founded in 1889 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, it is the state's second oldest university, a flagship university in th ...
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Subjects and themes
Stine is known for her use of dogs as a primary subject of her paintings. About this practice she states, "It's sort of illegal subject matter in the serious contemporary art world because it's really sentimental and soft, and it's not thought of as intellectual or conceptual. But figuring out how to relate to something or understand it physically and visually is like the entire process of a painting."
Stine was selected for New American Paintings Issues 132, 120 and 78 where she was awarded Juror’s Pick, the New Insight Exhibition at Art Chicago, and her work was exhibited in the Texas Biennial 2008.