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March Issue 2009
Nina Liu and
Friends in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by Katrina Schmidt-Rinke
Nina Liu and Friends
in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Elements of Lowcountry
Landscapes, featuring watercolors and oils by Katrina Schmidt-Rinke,
on view from Mar. 6 through Apr. 30, 2009.
Schmidt-Rinke, a Canadian who spent time in her native country
as well as the United States during her youth, enrolled at the
Savannah College of Art and Design and earned her BFA and MFA.
She has exhibited her work at galleries in the Carolinas (including
Nina Liu and Friends), Georgia, and Connecticut since completing
her formal education.
Schmidt-Rinke creates paintings that focus on the Lowcountry's marshes and the interaction between their grasses, water and the sky above them. The images have a timeless quality that arises from the facility with which Schmidt-Rinke works. She imbues the watercolors in the exhibition with an atmospheric quality that captures the essence of a sultry, summer day and uses deft brushstrokes to make her oils echo the textures and dense light that floods the marshy landscape in the hotter months.
Though some of the works are small, with their low horizon lines the paintings in the exhibit seem to encompass vast stretches of marsh on canvas and paper. The paintings accentuate masses of clouds that pile upon one another as they boil high into the sky, and the grasses almost appear to move and rustle in an unfelt breeze. Gallery owner Liu says that "the big sky clouds seem to feed the marsh. She manages to abstract that atmospheric exchange to a serene moment. Each of the paintings gives me a Zen-like feeling of well-being."
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