"Primarily horizontal in format with intricately drawn surfaces and larger in scale than one can normally take in at first sight, Margaret Rinkovsky's paintings and drawings are referential to landscapes. For this artist nature serves as the stimulus for her oeuvre, not as a literal reflection but as a private and personal interpretive experience. Margaret speaks of 'trying to capture the natural observations that happen just outside of our peripheral vision, such as a fleeting passage of light across layers of a shadowed creek surface.'
Contemplative in mode with their delicate toned-down color and layered indefinite forms, these paintings create an atmospheric effect of profound feeling and poetic expression. Built up from thin transparent layers of paint glazes, Rinkovsky develops a compositional organization that functions on both the surface and illusionistcally where image competes with tone-color in forming a pictorial unity of aesthetic allurement.
Within the American landscape tradition, Margaret Rinkovsky edits nature, distilling the visual facts, eliminating those that detract from her encounter, and exaggerating those that are most essential to communicate her experience. Her work seems to synthesize the 'material and spiritual' in nature—where meaning resides in and is communicated by visual elements of painting."
-Goerge W. Neubert, Associate Director of Art, SFMMA
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