Abstract, geometric landscape painter, working in acrylic and oil paint with graphite
Rhonda Gates creates paintings inspired by memories spent in the landscape, then simplified into intimate abstractions.
Gates’s paintings are luminous and subtly colored, composed of nuanced gradations, sensuous applications of paint and fleeting effects of light within a geometric framework. They offer intimate glimpses into the poetry of air and light that blend into tangible material — conceptual abstractions, contributing to the genre of contemporary landscape painting.
Gates exhibits her paintings throughout the U.S. They have been the subject of reviews in Art in America, Artnet and the Chicago Tribune, described as offering surfaces that are “luscious and juicy,” radiating “a powerful inner light” that beckons the viewer closer.
