Rachel Citrino

Inspirations come from prehistory, early belief systems, pictographs and impulse graffiti.
I want to merge the seemingly indecipherable history of the obscure past with my own sensual and emotional responses to it as I study and learn about human nature. In both the content and process of my art, I am interested in the global layering of time and history, of painting and drawing and of various meanings and associations. My art places itself in the context of the history of civilization as well as the process-oriented aspects of Abstraction.
I am interested in illuminating the abstract process of writing through line based compositions, often inspired by the almost universal linear forms of handwriting or the complexity of weavings. As I work subtle narratives that lay beneath the surface of an image are revealed to my imagination as they are to the mind of the viewer.

WEBSITE: My line is primal. I admire the commitment to origins of Cy Twombly, the playful freedom of Paul Klee and the spiritual underpinnings of Kandinsky. My lines are achieved by projecting myself  into the essentialness of the individual line and imagining the first line ever drawn. The line has to be felt and followed.
Much of my work is a direct reflec...

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Temple University
S. Fleisher Art Memorial

2021
PAFA Fellowship Annual at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Arts and Innovation Center, RCSJ, Strobe Signature Artists Exhibition
Rhoda Rosenberg & Rachel Citrino Works on Paper, www.fellowshipgallery.org online
2020
SUNSHINE ON MY LEFT SHOULDER, Solo Show, November -January PERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Collingswood, NJ
FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL PAFA, Hotbed Gallery, Philadelphia Award: Lucy Glick Prize
STROBE SIGNATURE ARTISTS, Gallery 50, Bridgeton, NJ

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2019
Studio Relocation Project

Acquisition of MARQUEE, etched intaglio monoprint, 2010, by Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2018
Solo at Gryphon Café in Fishtown.
Rail Park Fundraiser curated by Bridgette Myer
Members Exhibition at PPAC
Painting Center, NYC
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE Gallery 50, Bridgeton, NJ
2017
National Juried Annual, Attleboro Museum of Art, Attleboro, MA
Bivalve Arts Center, Bivalve, NJ
Selections from CFEVA's Members, Bebe Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Juried Exhibition, Blue Mountain, Chelsea, NY
Grass Is Greener, Artspace 1241, Philadelphia, PA
SIX, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia Curaor: Barbara Sosson
International Juried Exhibit, Frederick, MD

2015
POPE UP, Globe Dye Works, Philadelph...