Rachelle Mechenbier

Rachelle currently lives and works in New Mexico. Her work emerges spontaneously and she follows her intuition as she resolves a painting. She loves the resiliency and room for movement painting contains. With a background in sculpture and clay, she is inspired especially by the process of creating and the feel of materials as she manipulates them and watches transformation. She Incorporates found objects like lace, wood, stones, and reusable materials that would otherwise be useless.
She is inspired deeply by the artists Rothko, Rauschenberg, Diebenkorn, Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Hepworth, and Chagall.
She appreciates the new opportunity each painting brings to express and explore, and loved to mix intense colors to create a beautiful whole.

Bachelors of Fine Art: Austin College
focus: painting and sculpture

University of East Anglia

She has worked, lived, and painted in Albuquerque, England, Spain, Santa Fe, and Texas.

Selected Exhibitions
2019 The Round Key to the Universe: New Expressionist Paintings
Solo Show, Hartford Square,
Albuquerque, New Mexico

2019 12x12 Fundraising Exhibition
Harwood Art Center Group Show, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2014 WALLART: Featured Artist, Empty House Studios, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2012 High Desert Art Fair, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2012 Everything Old is New Again, Ida Green Gallery, Sherman, Texas

2004 Bow, Craig Hall Gallery, Sherman, Texas 2019 12x12 Invitational Harwood Art Center