NEW YORK, NY.- It is with great sadness that we announce that Raquel Rabinovich passed away peacefully on January 5, after a short battle with cancer. She leaves behind a rich legacy as a visual artist built over more than seven decades of rigorous practice. Rabinovich never subscribed to specific movements or trends in art, while engaging from her own unique perspective with some of the dominant tendencies of the past century, including hard-edge abstraction and land art. Born in Buenos Aires in 1929 into a Russian and Romanian Jewish immigrant family, Rabinovich lived and worked in the United States since 1967 and resided for the last 30 years in Rhinebeck, New York She was raised in Córdoba, Argentina, and moved to Europe where she would live throughout the mid-late 1950s. She was an active member of the Hudson Valley artistic and Buddhist communities. She was very loved by her family and friends who were with her until the very end.
This artist-approved publication features the work of celebrated Argentinean-born artist Raquel Rabinovich , and includes photographs of her rock sculpture, watercolors, urban installations, and works using pencil on specially selected papers.
Rabinovich worked across a variety of mediums, including glass sculpture, installations in nature, and film. However, her primary, and career-long engagement, was with painting and works on paper. By the 1980s she had perfected her signature built-up monochromatic surfaces in which she often embedded subtle gestures using language, which extended from her lifelong love of literature and poetry. At the same time she was always interested in works placed in actual space, including glass environments, stone sculpture installations arranged along the Hudson River bed, and her longstanding series on paper, the River Library, which utilized mud collected by Rabinovich and friends from various rivers across the world. Selections from this series were exhibited at the Pratt Institute and Vassar College, among other venues.
Rabinovichs work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. She is represented by Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York.
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