An established, full-time painter, Christie Scheele exhibits nationally in multiple galleries, including Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA; MUSEO on Whidbey Island, WA; the Louisa Gould Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard, MA; Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Rhinebeck; and Gallery Jupiter, in Little Silver, NJ.
Her soft-focus, minimalist landscapes are in hundreds of private, corporate, and museum collections in the U.S. and abroad including the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), the Queens Museum of Art, the Provincetown Artists Association and Museum, the Tyler Museum of Art (Tyler, TX), St. Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA), American Airlines, Waterford Crystal, Bessemer Trust Company, and the Mayo Clinic.
Scheele teaches only a handful of painting and color-mixing workshops each year, taking time out from her busy studio to share her knowledge of how the formal intricacies of color, shape, and composition create impactful landscape imagery.
I explore power and beauty in both the landscape and the abstract elements of painting. I interpret images that hold meaning for me, from personal experiences as well as those that say something resonant about our planet. With the right atmospherics, anything and everything can reflect a powerful beauty- from smokestacks or headlights on the road to the timeless presence of salt marsh, sea or mountains.
The single most important aspect of what I do as a landscape painter is to reduce a scene to its essentials. This gives the viewer what is important, without the distraction, or visual clutter, of too much detail. Both by creating this overview and using soft, scumbled edges, these paintings can quiet a viewers mind and evoke a more direct response.
Since 2016, I have been mounting exhibitions that encompass my landscape paintings and a discussion of climate change and local biodiversity through writing, mono prints, and collaged maps.
