Raquel Rabinovich

She is known for her monochromatic paintings and drawings as well as for her large-scale glass sculpture environments and site-specific installations along the shores of the Hudson River.

[4][5] Rabinovich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 30, 1929, to Russian and Romanian Jewish parents.

[7] Some of her earliest influences were Argentine artists Héctor Basaldúa, Vicente Forte and Ernesto Farina, whose studios Rabinovich would visit.

[5] She returned to Argentina in the early 1960s, where she initiated a period of contemplation and reflection that led to a series of paintings titled The Dark is Light Enough.

[1] The series marked the beginning of her lifelong investigation into the nature of existence through the exploration of what she called the "dark source".

The dark source, for Rabinovich embodies the concealed aspects of existence that seem to be invisible, which are behind the appearance of things, thoughts, language, and the world.

[10][5] In the early 70s Rabinovich had a dream in which her paintings became transparent and free-standing, so she began creating sculptures using glass.

She stayed in the ruins overnight and before dawn Machu Picchu disappeared from view, then very slowly appeared, as the clouds lifted in the morning.

Many years later, influenced by this experience she would create stone sculptural installations Emergences along the shores of the Hudson River.

2008: Herzberg, Julia P. Raquel Rabinovich, Antología del lecho de los ríos/Anthology of the Riverbeds, Buenos Aires: Editorial Fundación Alon para las Artes (Principal essayist and editor: Julia P. Herzberg; other essayists: Jenny Fox, Patricia C. Phillips and Ana María Battistozzi).

Judische Frauen in der bildenden Kunst II, edited by Erhard Roy Wiehn, Hartung-Gorre Verlag.

1974: Bayón, Damián C. Aventura Plástica de Hispanoamérica, Breviarios del Fondode Cultura Económica, No.