HANG at The Canvas Gallery

Carin Rehbinder's work has been described as a tightrope walk between vision and reality, which is an apt description of her current body of work entitled HORIZONS.

In this series, where land and seascapes are depicted through traces of handwriting, scraps of printed paper, and radiant layers of acrylic paint and oil pastels, the artist recognizes that what we see is often very different from what we believe to be real. The collision of two dominant fields of color creates the horizon line that threads itself through these pieces. While suggesting a sense of distance, they also have an immediacy brought about by their rich texture and fusion of found and conventional art materials. To Carin, the process of painting is as important as the end result.

Originally from Germany, where she studied art at both the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Kunstschule Alsterdamm in Hamburg, Carin Rehbinder received a BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco in 1989. She has been living and working in San Francisco since 1986.