Artista / Artist: Barbara Rachko
Curadora / Curator: Elisa Pritzker
Barbara Rachko is an American contemporary artist who divides her tie between New York City and Alexandria, VA.
She is best known for her pastel-on-sandpaper paintings, her eBook, “From Pilot to Painter,” and her popular blog, “Barbara Rachko’s Colored Dust,” which currently has 78,000+ subscribers.
She is represented by Galleria Balmain (London), Emillions (US), Interstellar (New Delhi), and Galleri SoHo (Sweden).
Barbara travels regularly to Mexico, Central America, and South America. Since 2017 she has been creating “Bolivianos,” a painting series based on an exhibition of Carnival masks she photographed at the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz.
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IZQUIERDA | lEFT
Impresario, 2021, Soft Pastel on Sandpaper
Image 58" × 38" (147 × 97 cm) Framed 70" x 50" (178 × 127 cm)
aRRIBA | ABOVE
Couple, 2011, Soft Pastel on Sandpaper
Image 20" x 26" (51 × 66 cm) Framed 28.5" × 35" (72 × 89 cm)