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This group of oil paintings suggests the landscape and the organic \, but is strongly rooted in the abstract and the gesture. The imagery emp loys a variety of scale and points of view\, as if a camera lens is zoomin g in for detail or panning out for depth. I rebel against the technical co nstraints of the digital environment (where I live as a graphic designer\, relying on grids and linking vector points with a mouse or stylus) and re vel in the hands-on accidental strokes and colors that give rise to the ne xt mark on the canvas. The constant manipulation is the same process wheth er digital or manual. Parts of the composition call out to be changed or a djusted\, while others sit properly and perfectly upon first placement. Fo r me\, at some moment\, similar to cropping a scene on your camera\, the w hole comes into focus as a finished piece. While making that journey\, I c onstantly look for the play in the history of the layers of lines or marks : residual strokes\, smudges\, smears\, splashes\, and erasures that compl ement the crispness of essential sharp lines and tones. The directive ener gy of angles and curves in the varying degrees of abstraction refers\, per haps\, to the life of plants\, the suggestion of movement\, the hint of or reference to a recognizable species or place.
\n\nAR TIST BIO
\nLou Ann Reineke is a painter living in Salt Lake City\, Utah. Originally from the Pennsylvania/Washington DC area\, she ea rned a BFA in Illustration from the Philadelphia College of Art. Shortly a fter graduating\, she fell in love with the Wasatch Mountains\, the Utah d esert air\, and the allure of accessibility to hiking\, camping\, river-ru nning\, and cross-country skiing. The dichotomy of growing up in the densi ty and preserved history of the East Coast and transplanting to the expans iveness and relative wilderness of the West is reflected in her work\, whe re she roams between the two worlds of pixels and paints\, borrowing freel y from each. Having lived in Salt Lake City for over 40 years\, she still feels the pull of her East Coast metropolitan roots.
\nThough retire d from print publication design\, her lifelong experience as a freelancer and eighteen years as an editorial designer and illustrator at the Deseret News in Salt Lake City still influences her fine art. Reineke&rsquo\;s pa rticipation in selected exhibitions include many Utah venues such as the U tah Museum of Fine Arts\, The Salt Lake Art Center\, Art Access Gallery\, Phillips Gallery\, Finch Lane Gallery\, and Kimball Art Center. She now de votes her time solely to oil painting and can be found most days working i n her sunny\, airy studio on Princeton.
\nReineke credits the start of her passion for painting in oils to workshops she attended\, 2002 and 2 003\, in Helper\, Utah\, under the tutelage of David Dornan\, Paul Davis\, and Tony Smith. Dornan\, in particular\, inspired the development of her process of mark-making\, experimentation\, and &ldquo\;attacking the surfa ce&rdquo\; of the canvas &ndash\; mixed with her preference for leaving so me areas open and airy while making others dense and opaque. Though her wo rk transitioned to an abstract expressionist and gestural style\, she stil l employs some realism\, borrowing elements from the natural world. The ha ppenstance randomness of fallen leaves\, close-cropped\, becomes a formal study in composition\, a snapshot of nature. The intricate petals of a flo wer become a loose and energetic color sketch. A branch becomes a dense fo rest of flickering lines.
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