REVIEW CRISTI RINKLIN: PARAMNESIAC NEWPORT ART MUSEUM 76 BELLEVUE AVENUE NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND JUNE 15 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 In her artist statement, Boston-based painter Cristi Rinklin notes that she is inspired by the visual language of constructed reality that permeates the history of pictorial space. Through that declaration, she seems to have given herself permission — with inspiration from and full respect to those who’ve painted before her — to utilize anything and everything from the past in making her futuristic-looking works. “This is pretty much true,” she said. “I’m fascinated by the flexibility of painting, and how it can be a window or an object, how it can be self-referential or become something else entirely. Painting, when done well, can present an impossible set of conditions but convince us entirely that these conditions are plausible. The idea that … [Read more...] about PARAMNESIAC IN NEWPORT: BELIEVE THE IMPLAUSIBLE