REENIE CHARRIÉRE

She / Her / Hers

Everyday situations stir Reenie Charrière’s investigations of what lingers in the environment. Her practice involves collecting and transforming everyday materials, especially throwaways. As a mixed media artist Reenie playfully pushes materials in unexpected arrangements bringing a surprising beauty to what may be discarded. Her artwork also reveals and questions the abundance of waste in our consumer dependent society. Motivated by architecture, movement, and space, Reenie’s sculptural installations play upon the unpredictable juxtapositions of natural and synthetic matter.

Reenie lives in Oakland, California. She received her MFA from Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine in 2009. She has received two Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants, and a Roderick Dew Travel Grant. She has been awarded Artist Residencies by World of Co, Sofia, Bulgaria, FaveLAB in Athens, Greece Become/Become in Sardinia, Italy, Buinho in Portugal, Draw-International in France, Hannacc Can Bourni in Spain, Maine College of Art, the La Napoule Art Foundation in France, SF MOMA, Arts Benicia and Vermont Studio. Her work has been exhibited in venues internationally, including Sofia, Bulgaria, Bombay, India, Athens, Greece, Messejana, Portugal, Sardinia, Italy, Barcelona, Spain, Seoul, Korea, Mandelieu La Napoule, France, 2014 as well as all over the United States. Her work has been commissioned by San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in 2011, as well as by the Marin Sanitary Service in 2014 and by the Peoria Playhouse Children’s Museum in 2018.

Artist’s website: reeniecharriere.com
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