ART – ROOT ON ROUTE 1

ROOT ON ROUTE 1Renée Rey Acrylic paint, graphite, paper collaged on paper36 x 28 inch, edition 1/12018   Part of the MAISON 10 group exhibition ALL WOMANFebruary 17th – April 27th, 2019    ABOUT RENÉE REY Renée Rey is an award-winning painter living in New York City and southwest Florida. Her other-worldly spaces flirt with romantic ideals of historical legend and utopian future. Rey draws upon the current social and political climate as fluidly as she borrows imagery from science, culture, and wisdom literature suggesting complex narrative threads. Washes of vivid color create a sense of weightlessness and defiance of gravity. Rey was born in Japan into a dual diaspora heritage: Jewish/American optometrist father, and French/Armenian/Christian fashion designer mother, and refugee grandparents. Rey came of age in the environmental and civil rights zeitgeist of the 1960's and 70’s in upstate New York. An interior architectural design career informs color, material, and spatial choices