ARTIST BIO
Margaret Rinkevich has been dedicated to the arts and has taught art history to university students and museum docents. She holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Arizona, where she specialized in the art of the Italian Renaissance. There she participated in two archaeological excavations in Umbria, Italy, and later taught European art history at Northern Arizona University. She also worked at contemporary art galleries in Santa Fe, NM and is the author of several publications about tribal art and culture.
While living in San Francisco, CA, Margaret volunteered at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and wrote about numerous traditional tribal African objects for the collection in Highlights from a Decade of Collecting (2009). Additionally, she assisted with docent education, research on acquisitions and composed didactic material for objects on display in the African galleries. In 2012 she authored an article for TRIBAL Magazine entitled “Seeing the Unseen: Visionary Aspects of Eskimo Snow Goggles”.
Currently, Margaret resides in Telluride, CO where she participated in the local art school, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Second Annual Juried Exhibition of Regional Artists, BEST OF 2014. Further, she has contributed to The Telluride Painting School lecture series with a talk entitled, Art of the ‘So What?!’: The History of Still Life Painting. In 2016 she juried the 3rd Annual Exhibition of Regional Artists. In 2017, her solo show BLUE opened at Gallery 81435 in Telluride.
Rinkevich Galley opened December 2018 and features her abstract paintings along with tribal sculpture. Margaret has been painting and collecting tribal art for over 20 years. Tribal art had a profound impact on Modernist art and Rinkevich has always loved the juxtaposition of Abstract Expressionist painting and tribal sculpture. Both can be very ingenious and convey unique interpretations of both our inner and outer world.
Her work hangs in numerous private collections throughout the US.
WHY ABSTRACT?
Abstract Expressionism is a term applied to a movement in American painting that flourished in New York City after World War II. The varied work produced at this time resisted any definition of a cohesive style. Instead, these artists shared an interest in using abstraction to convey strong emotional and expressive content.
In its purest form, it rejected any literal or representational reference points. It is best known for large-scale paintings that break away from traditional processes and conventional materials.
It’s a style of painting whose character is derived from immediate spontaneous decisions rather than reliance on learned procedures. I paint in a very extemporaneous way. I have nothing preplanned apart from an attitude of expectancy and I value emotion, authenticity and risk. I love the sheer mental grind of painting. I love the physical act— the battle between containment and chaos. There is something alluring about the process of action and then discovery.
