Editor's note: This interview with Rachel Citrino is presented as part of a content partnership with InLiquid.

Where do you live and work?
I live in Fishtown and work in Frankford. My studio is in the Globe Dye Works. It was not until I contracted the space -- 3 years ago -- that I realized my new studio is part of the landscape of my childhood.

What is your medium?
Painting. I work in a lot of different materials but it all stems from painting for me. Even photography and printmaking are really worked like a painting.

What training have you had? 
At a young age, my artist father [taught me] and then I had private lessons with various teachers, then Fleisher Art Memorial and then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

What are you currently working on? 
I am working on paper right now. I decided this year to revisit a series I had done in 1976 -- I really liked it and had never come to a conclusion with it. So now it is a little different because I bring all those years since to the work. Also, the intent has matured -- it began years ago as an investigation into the nature of black and white as colors and as cultural idioms.I played with the push/pull aspect of color relationships. Now I am just going for a breathless state.

Describe your methods.
I work a lot on black backgrounds; now it is black paper with acrylic and white ink. I am thinking a lot about creation and the stories of how the universe was woven into existence by the Great Mother. The white ink lines are drawn freehand with a ruling pen. I like the dichotomy.

What's next up for you? 
I am curating an exhibit entitled Global Intersection: A World of Methods and Materials which will explore the plethora of materials at our disposal as visual artists.

What inspires you? 
Color. Color is a magical thing. It does not exist yet it somehow does and we do not see it but we know in our brain it is there and we can name it -- well, some of it.

Why do you make art? 
A compulsion. An irresistible idea that some new insight into my evolutionary existence will be divulged and the possibility of sharing that information with generations to come. It's a romantic compulsion, I guess.

What do you hope people will get out of your work? 
A new attitude. A new way to think as well as see. To know that these marks were hundreds of thousands of years in the making and to truly honor that fact.

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