NEWS
WORKSHOP
Painting Marathon: Painting the Landscape with Rachel Rickert
June 2-13, 2025; 9am - 6pm
New York Studio School, New York, NY
Plein air landscape painting embodies the elements of working from perception, uniting the truth of the world and one’s personal truth of vision. Capturing the unique qualities of the landscape – the light, the vastness, the changeability – is a thrilling and challenging experience. In this two-week Painting Marathon, students will learn how to translate the entirety of the plein air experience, working directly from nature within the beautiful Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island. This course will feature formal teachings in color, space, form, and composition, with daily prompts that expand our understanding of these elements of art making. Painting time will be supported with individual and group critiques, as well as demos and discussions. Students will learn how to use perception to connect the formal with the personal while embracing the adventure of plein air painting.
FACULTY
2025 Summer Intensive School, Mount Gretna School of Art
June 22 – August 9, 2025
Mount Gretna School of Art, Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania
A single sustained seven-week session running from June 22 to August 9, 2025. The discipline of working outside from direct perceptual observation guides the instruction. Students will learn about the outdoor environment, the nature of seeing, and their mutual impact on the formation of a painting. Rachel Rickert will be teaching plein air painting during the first 2.5 weeks of the program. The residency includes housing, studios, instruction, lectures, and more.
Photo by Pat Nabong
WORKSHOP
Plein Air Painting: Personalizing the Landscape
September 5th, 6th, 7th, 2025; 10am - 4pm
KIMBALL ART CENTER, Park City, Utah
This three-day plein air landscape painting workshop will focus on formal painting concepts and nurturing individuality. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding color to build form and space that is truthful to one’s experiences of the landscape, through tone and temperature, but is also a personal representation. Students will practice the balance of finding solidity & structure with spontaneity and expression, while embracing the adventure of plein air painting.
FACULTY
Drawing Faculty, New York Studio School
Spring 2025 Semester
New York Studio School, New York, NY
EXHIBITION
Rachel Rickert: Rock and Sun
December 7, 2024 – January 11, 2025
Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present Rock and Sun, an exhibition featuring recent plein-air paintings by artist Rachel Rickert. Inspired by the permanence of rock and the ephemeral nature of human existence, Rickert expands the narratives of her practice by utilizing handmade paints, which she meticulously crafts from rocks and sediments collected directly from the landscapes she depicts. The paintings in Rock and Sun embody her evolving exploration of her subject matter by intensifying the connection between the artwork and its origin. This is Rickert’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
EXHIBITION
VESTIGES — Selections from the Collection of Rod Burks
November 1-27, 2024
The Common Well, Garden City, ID
Artists: Colleen Barry, Hernan Bas, Charles Gill, Keiran Brennan Hinton, Jocelyn Hobbie, Benjamin Jones, Rebecca Ness and Rachel Rickert.
Photo by Kate Shearer
OPEN STUDIO
HWY 62 Open Studio Art Tours 2024
October 5-6, 2024
Joshua Tree, CA
EXHIBITION
The Guild of Adventure Painters: Yellowstone
September 27 – November 8, 2024
Visions West Contemporary, Livingston, MT
Artists: Jen Hitchings, Rachel Rickert, Sarah Schlesinger, Sophia Heymans, Johnny Defeo, Aaron Zulpo, Mike Piggot, and Jeb Todd.
Visions West Contemporary is pleased to announce the exhibition The Guild of Adventure Painters: Yellowstone. This group show features paintings of the Greater Yellowstone Region by 2023's Adventure Painting residents and friends of the program.
Photo by Pat Nabong
WORKSHOP
Plein Air Painting: Personalizing the Landscape
September 6-8, 2024; 10am - 4pm
KIMBALL ART CENTER, Park City, Utah
WORKSHOP
Painting the Landscape at Old Westbury Gardens with Rachel Rickert
June 20 – July 3, 2024, 9am-6pm
New York Studio School, New York, NY
Photo by Kevin Losani
RESIDENCY
Sunlit Ranch Residency
April 2024
Tucumcari, NM
EXHIBITION
Size Doesn't Matter (Small Works with Big Impact)
April 30 – June 28, 2024
Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
Artists: Antoine Louis Barye, Rosa Bonheur, Richard P. Bonington, Mary Cassatt, J. B. C. Corot, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Gericault, Stanislas Lepine, Albert Marquet, Barthélemy Menn, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Hippolyte Petitjean, Odilon Redon, Auguste Rodin, Théodore Rousseau, Ker Xavier Roussel, George Seurat, George Sand, and featuring works by contemporary artist Rachel Rickert.
EXHIBITION
A Room with a View
November 30, 2023 – January 27, 2024
Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
EXHIBITION
Rachel Rickert: Wind and Rattlesnakes
October 14 – November 11, 2023
Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Rachel Rickert entitled Wind and Rattlesnakes. This exhibition marks Rachel Rickert's debut solo show in Los Angeles and her first collaboration with Lowell Ryan Projects. The exhibit features over thirty paintings created during this past summer in both Wyoming and Joshua Tree, CA. These oil-on-panel plein-air works offer vibrant and intimate portrayals of vast landscapes, revealing their captivating yet imposing beauty. Rickert's exuberant use of color allows her to capture the nuances of time, temperature, and weather patterns, offering unique experiential glimpses of her surroundings.