Cristi Rinklin
Cristi Rinklin’s abstract imagery is largely predicated upon our twenty-first century’s post-industrial culture, where an increasing amount of human experience is mediated by the computer. The artist declares that “technology recalibrates how we imagine the world,” and her paintings reflect many different aspects of our digital environment: the vivid colors of computer graphics, the luminous transparency of monitors, and the ability of image processing software to juxtapose, combine, and layer a seemingly infinite variety of images. The images which Rinklin chooses – primarily from art history, the decorative arts, popular culture, and science – morph together to suggest a world between abstraction and representation, a parallel universe of flux and mutation, where cosmology and biology intertwine, and then explode off the surface of the paintings to spread across the surrounding walls. Rinklin collapses together styles and imagery from the past, the present, and a visionary future to create a picture of what she calls the “twenty-first-century technological subconscious,” or a “Baroque science fiction, or Rococo cosmic nightmare.”
Cristi Rinklin would like to thank the Artists Resource Trust of the Berkshire Taconic Foundation for funding the creation of her painting installations for Big Bang!
Cristi Rinklin resides in South Boston, MA
Image: Cristi Rinklin, Ecstatic Beatification, 2006, oil and acrylic on Dibond aluminum, 72” x 54”, with wall stencil 90” x 93”, Lent by the Artist, Courtesy RHYS Gallery, Boston, MA
