Raychael Stine is an artist living in Albuquerque New Mexico. She holds a BFA from UTD and an MFA from the UIC. Stine has exhibited at Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX, Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX, Denise Bibro Gallery, NY, Leviton A + D Gallery, Chicago IL among others. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings Issue 78-Jurors Pick, The Texas Biennial, 2009, the Dallas Museum of Art Degoylier Grant, the Stone Award at UIC, and The Gendler Fellowship at the Bemis Center residency, and Jentel Foundation. She is professor of Painting and Drawing at the UNM. I often paint my dogs and our shared emotional and physical terrain. The paintings are sometimes humorous, innocuous, or dangerous. Sometimes they are tightly rendered and at other times they are luscious and abstract. This mask is a Yow- a version of a dog who is slightly monstrous and mysterious, funny and sentimental. There are multiple kinds of representation happening, where forms melt back into material, and where material begins to allude to image- and then to something nameable. The mask is turned upside down to allow the eye areas to make up the shape of the dogs ears.