Christie Scheele
Christie Scheele is a contemporary landscape painter living and working in the Catskill Mountains
MessageChristie Scheele began painting her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes just before moving to the Catskills from New York City in 1990. She is an exhibiting artist of over forty years in galleries nationwide including Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA, Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Rhinebeck, DFN Gallery in NYC, Gold Gallery in Boston, Butters Gallery in Portland OR, MUSEO in Langley, WA, Artforms in Redbank, NJ, VanBrunt Gallery in Beacon, NY, the Louisa Gould Gallery in Vineyard Haven MA, and 1053 Gallery in Fleischmanns, NY. Scheele’s work is also included in private and public collections nationwide and internationally including the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), the Queens Museum of Art, the Provincetown Artists Association and Museum, the Tyler Museum of Art (Tyler, TX), St. Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA), American Airlines, Waterford Crystal, Bessemer Trust Company, the Emerson Resort and Spa, and the Mayo Clinic.
Additional works can be seen at the following galleries :
MUSEO
https://museo.cc/christiescheele
Rice Polak Gallery
https://ricepolakgallery.com/artists/christie-scheele/
Albert Shahinian Fine Art
https://www.shahinianfineart.com/ChristieScheele.html
Louisa Gould Gallery
https://www.louisagould.com/gallery/artists/69/Christie_Scheele.html
1053 Gallery
Statement
I explore power and beauty in both the landscape and the abstract elements of painting. I interpret images that hold meaning for me, from personal experience as well as those that say something resonant about our planet. With the right atmospherics, anything and everything can reflect a powerful beauty---from smokestacks or headlights on a road to the timeless presence of salt marsh, sea, or mountains.
The single most important aspect to what I do as a landscape painter is to reduce a scene to its essentials. This gives the viewer what is important, without the distraction, or visual clutter, of too much detail. Both by creating this overview and by using soft, scumbled edges, these paintings can quiet a viewer's mind and and evoke a more direct response.
Since 2016, I have been mounting exhibitions that encompass both my landscape paintings and a discussion of climate change and local biodiversity through writing, monoprints, and collaged maps.
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