Landscapes

These landscapes are at once personal and universal. They consist mostly of what I see around me and what I drive through daily. They are autobiographical in that each painting is about a particular time and place in my life, fleeting, but none-the-less worthy of notice. The sky is what I consider to be the universal aspect, always present, uniting us all.
Rachel Kline

Rachel Kline has painted a series of landscapes that she calls Roadwork. As she travels through the stretching highways of northern California, she has captured a sense of traveling through time. The limitlessness of the sky in all of her works, links them. While Kline’s work does use photographs of a scene as a memory aid while painting in her studio, they have none of the cold, hard edge of photorealist painters such as Richard Estes. Her scenes of the Yolo Causeway and other local highway junctions function beyond recording the details of life, and work symbolically as well. In so doing, they become metaphors for the many connecting points of life and the signs that lead us from one part of our life to another.
Natalie Nelson
Director, Pence Gallery
Davis, California