Renee Rey

Renée Rey’s art reflects a vision for an inclusive, just, and healthy world. In both large and intimately scaled paintings, mixed media, and assemblage artwork, she creates other-worldly ecospheres that celebrate connection and kinship among diverse people, cultures, nature, and technologies. As she considers these concepts, Rey experiments with combining abstraction, realism, and surrealism, and varied media including oil, acrylic, paper, sandpaper, pins, clay, and wood branches.

Born in Japan, and now residing in South Florida, Rey’s artwork has been selected for national awards and exhibitions by art professionals, museum curators, and gallerists. Her artwork has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.

Rey was invited to the School of Visual Arts Summer Painting Residency, New York, NY in 2019 and Sun Peak Center for Art and Sustainability, Colorado Springs, CO in 2016. The artist has studied drawing, painting, 3-D design, film, performance art, computer art and art history on the undergraduate and graduate levels in New York and Florida.

Appearances / Events

• December 1st 2023

Opening reception for Renee's featured artist of the month exhibition titled It Is Not Down On Any Map, True Places Never Are during Old Town Untapped. The exhibition will run until December 29th 2023. Learn more about the exhibition here.

• February 10th 2024 - Creative Play Class

Renee Rey leads this creative arts session focusing on sending off limiting beliefs and having fun expressing one’s inner creativity without a plan or purpose. Click here to register.

• March 9th 2024 - Making Sense of Line and Form Class

A technique-based creative session that encourages students to experiment with making and obscuring mark making to take abstract and realistic drawing and painting to a different level of expression and mystery. Click here to register.

• April 6th 2024 - Kaleidoscope of Color
  

Did you ever wonder why great painters chose specific colors for their paintings? Did you ever wonder why different paintings make you feel differently? This workshop is for students who want to explore color and discover how they can create emotion and mood with paint. Click here to register.

• April 13th 2024 - Place Making Class

A 2-hour creative arts session focuses on students investigating symbols and narratives around an environment: interior, exterior, personal, political, socially responsible, or other! Click here to register.

• April 17th 2024 - Powerful Palette Knife Painting 1
  

Utilizing the palette knife, students will have fun painting a lusciously textured painting. In this workshop students will create a painting inspired by a sunflower field. Click here to register.

• April 20th 2024 - Express your Colorful Self

This is a fun class in which students will have the opportunity to experiment with line, form, color, collage, acrylic paint, and the written word. Students will create a spontaneous and abstract acrylic painting on paper or canvas. Click here to register.

• June 15th 2024 - Illumining Light and Shadow
  

Understanding light and shadow is one of the most important principles to creating dynamic drawings and paintings. In this workshop, students will learn and practice the basics of creating light and shadow with drawing and painting materials. For the beginning student or those who want a refresher! Click here to register.

• June 19th 2024 - Powerful Palette Knife Painting
  

Utilizing the palette knife, students will have fun painting a lusciously textured painting. In this workshop students will create a painting inspired by the seashore. Taking my classes, “Color Magic” and “Making Sense of Line & Form,” is suggested prior to this class for those without some formal art training. Click here to register.

• June 29th 2024 - Still Life With Drawing Style

This is a fun workshop for students who seek to learn and/or elevate their formal and expressive drawing skills. Students will observe and translate form, light, and shadow of a still life set up to an expressive still life drawing. Click here to register.

Contact Info

Email: rey@reneerey.com

Website: https://www.reneerey.com

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