Abbie Rabinowitz Artist Statement

Painting is how I document the world — both the one outside me and the one within. My work moves between landscape, abstraction, and portraiture, but the same forces run through all of it: rhythm, light, and place.

The places I’ve lived and loved, the rhythms of nature, the quality of light at a particular moment — these are my constant subjects, whether I’m standing in front of a landscape, working from memory in the studio, or drawing out the personality and expression of a person in a portrait.

I paint expressively, with direct brushwork and a fearless use of color. I layer, erase, and build back up, letting the surface carry the history of the process. In my OSB series, reclaimed oriented strand board becomes a collaborator — its fractured surface breaking form into unexpected rhythms and color harmonies, hovering between memory and invention.

Whether the subject is land, light, or portrait, I’m after the same thing: the feeling beneath the surface, made visible through paint.​