Christie Scheele received her BFA at Alfred University, during which time she was awarded a fellowship at the Royal Academy of Fine Art at San Fernando and studied at the University Complutense of Madrid. Her mediative atmospheric landscapes are a confluence of all the places where she has lived and travelled, and currently most inspired by the Northeastern coastlines, rivers, and mountains. Scheele exhibits nationally, and has been included by such notable collections as the Queens Museum of Art, the Dorsky Museum, The Tyler Museum of Art, American Airlines, and Waterford Crystal. Scheele is currently represented by Gold Gallery in Boston, and Danette Koke Fine Art in New York City, and other fine arts galleries in New York and Massachusetts.
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.
