German-born artist Gabriele T. Raacke paints in various media in her East Hampton studio.
She is self-taught and works in oil and acrylic on canvas and produces collages on paper. Raacke is, however, best known for her reverse-painting-on-glass pieces which can be found in galleries in the Hamptons and private collections in the U.S. and Europe.
The shiny glass pieces that serve as her canvas produce a delicious luminance that stems from light reflected between the layers of paint and the glass surfaces. Her delightful dinner plates combine the medieval reverse-painting-on-glass technique with composition gold, copper and silver leafing, allowing them to be used at the festive table.
Her innovative work often features curious reflections of reality, influenced by her childhood memories of Grimm’s fairy tales: a bear and a ballerina dancing on a country road; a woman riding a giant rooster in the kitchen; or three generations of performers juggling eggs in a meadow.
Silhouettes of archetypical animals parade along the rim of her dinner plates: monkeys meet lizards; frogs dance with penguins before concentric cosmic backgrounds.
Ms. Raacke has shown on the East End at Arlene Bujese, Renee Fotouhi, Gayle Willson, Pamela Williams, Kramoris, Canio’s, White Room galleries, Galerie Mallory, Surface Library, Ashawagh Hall, Southampton Cultural Center, Southampton Arts Center, Guild Hall, Islip Art Museum, The Bridgehampton Museum and in Manhattan at the Work Gallery, Archetype Gallery, Bergdorf Goodman, and Two Boots in the West Village. Her work was also on display at the Hilla von Rebay Museum in Germany.
More info at www.Raacke.us
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