Sunny Raschke was born and raised in Chicago, but moved to Dallas and became an adopted Texan in her late 20s.
After early retirement from a career in the women’s fashion industry, she set out to pursue her early life ambition to become a visual artist, which had been cut short by a devastating family tragedy during her senior year in high school.
She studied under the renowned artist Donna Adams and began exhibiting in the late 2000s around the North Texas and Southern Oklahoma region.
She has shown her work at both juried and private exhibitions in the American West and Southwest and has been active with local arts development and promotion organizations, including a stint as co-director of a gallery in Carrollton, Texas.
In 2014 she was invited to do a black-and-white show in Vienna, Austria.
She has also contracted for cover art pieces by two book publishers with international distribution.
After the Covid lockdowns in the early 2020s, she began repurposing her work toward a theme she calls “Art for Overcomers”.
Her current art, which she calls “Art for Overcomers”, which includes fluid abstract designs, vibrant, colors, multiple layers, and rough texture, is aimed at motivating people from all walks of life, especially those with addictions and disabilities, to become artists themselves.
The inspiration came from her grandson Kes, who as a talented digital music composer is currently under contract with the British publisher Bloomsbury to write a book along with his author father Erik Raschke on overcoming autism. She gives a percentage of the works she sells to autism research.
You are encouraged to donate to Autism Speaks, whose vision is “a world where all people with autism can reach their full potential.”
She and her professor husband Carl Raschke currently reside with their four cats in Denison, Texas as well as at their retreat property on Lake Texoma.
“Devastation” Series
Denver CO (2013)
Sunny Raschke
“Her style is one of color, depth and motion. One of my favorite pieces—Dancing City—clearly communicates Sunny’s depth and joy. She has another one of a tree where it looks like the tree is moving.”
-Cathy Hutchinson, art blogger.
“Signs”
(ERPE Gallery Exhibition, Black and White, Vienna 2013)