Introducing Kazimira Rachfal
With all the hubub and over-stimulation of this time of year leading up to the holidays -- if I had Kazimira's paintings in my home, I'd likely find myself parked in front of them, resting my eyes and my mind in their simple geometries and gentle dynamism.
In the artist's words -- "I work on many paintings at the same time. My paintings can begin with anything, the memory of a shape, the colours of a shadow, a pattern on the sidewalk, a photo in the NY Times. Each painting is found differently. I use these geometric impressions to open up to the mystical places, to make archetypal space, as if sacred sound. Each painting can then become a specific energetic entity."
Enjoy these "dreams" and have a peaceful holiday.
Rachfal shows her work at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, 205 Norman Ave. in Brooklyn. Her paintings sell for $2000-$4000, and the gallery has just opened a flat file that has a nice collection of her drawings on paper (couldn't get images in time for this post, sorry!) for $500 a piece.
Inquiries? Please contact the artist directly via email, or Janet through the gallery.
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I should start doing these and selling them on Ebay. I could retire by the time I was 25!
Try it High School Art Student; achieving this warmth, balance and structure, is a heck of a lot more difficult than one would think. Just look at Rothko.
Gorgeous design and colour... very nice soothing.
love the work, interesting how the scale ofr the large canvases equal the small works.
These look lovely and I would love to see in "real life." However, the canvases look stretched sloppily and it doesn't seem to improve the work or to be intentional. Especially with a small work that care to the technique seems critical to me.
And High School...in your dreams.
i used to think paintings like these were lame. but now that i'm getting older, i could see these nicely blend in as part of the walls, rather than a separate "art work" hanging on the walls. does that make sense?