Category Archives: Black Paintings
Q: What genre do you work in?
“Broken,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 38″ x 58″ image, 50″ x 70″ framed
A: I consider all of my pastel paintings and photographs to be “contemporary conceptual realism.” In my work there is a disquieting quality, a feeling that things are not quite as innocent as they at first seem. The world I depict is a world of the imagination that owes little debt to the natural world. As one New York art critic noted, “What we bring to a Rachko… we get back, bountifully.”
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Start/Finish of “Provocateur,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 26″ x 20″ image, 35″ x 28 1/2″ framed
Beginning
Finished and signed
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Q: What’s on the easel today?
Work in progress
A: I’m putting finishing touches on a small, 20″ x 26,” pastel painting called, “Survivors.”
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Start/Finish of “Motley,” 38″ x 58″ image, 50″ x 70″ framed
Beginning
Completed
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Q: What’s on the easel today?
Work in progress
A: I continue working on a large, 38″ x 58″, pastel painting called, “Conundrum” and am happy with how it’s progressing. A few days ago I added the small triangle to the right of the central figure. I felt some compositional element was needed there and believe this is an improvement.
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Start/Finish of “The Storyteller,” 20″ x 26″ image, 28 1/2″ x 35″ framed
Charcoal underdrawing
Completed and signed
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Q: What’s on the easel today?
Work in progress
A: I am working on a small 20″ x 26″ pastel painting that doesn’t have a title yet.
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Q: What’s on the easel today?
Work in progress
A: I am working on a large 38″ x 58″ pastel painting that depicts figures found years ago in Oaxaca and Mexico City. This painting doesn’t have a title yet.
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Start/Finish of “Palaver,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 26″ x 20″
Beginning
Finished and signed
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