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Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

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18. Gego, Dibujo sin papel 85/12 (Drawing without Paper 85/12)

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Dibujo sin papel 85/12 (Drawing without Paper 85/12), 1985. Steel wire, thread, and leader sleeves, 41 × 40 inches

If this spiky wire sculpture by Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) were hanging by my desk, I would enjoy absentmindedly studying it all the time. Using the simplest of materials—it’s just wire connected by bits of scrap metal—she creates the illusion of a drawing, albeit one whose shifting volumes interact with their shadows behind. I like its lightness, and the way the rough outline really looks like pencil marks on paper, and how it’s not perfectly square. There are no right angles in this deceptively simple piece. It’s not immediately apparent what’s going on, and I think that’s the point.

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