March 3rd - 31st, 2017

The Strand Center for the Arts was delighted to host artist Eric Reinemann in the Main Gallery in March, 2017.

Eric Reinemann received his MFA from the University of Oregon in 2003 and BFA from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 2000. His works were on display at GF Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and have been acquired by numerous public and private collections across the country.

 Reinemann works with his daily environments, which he can reconstruct, re-imagine, and remember in a new way on the pictorial plane. “The sense of completeness we experience in everyday seeing and observing becomes dissected,” Reinemann said when describing his process. “Visual information is filtered through the mind, coded with a color, translated into a line, and reassembled onto the surface.”

Inspired by the complexity and richness of everyday scenes, Reinemann chose his studio locations in areas of crude, natural beauty. Years in the North Country of New York State, the woods around Eugene, Oregon, the mountain wilderness of New Mexico, and the rolling hill-towns of Western Massachusetts have each informed his process and his philosophy of painting.

 “To me, Eric’s work captures everyday moments and distills them into a simplified state,” stated museum director, David Monette. “There is a feeling of timelessness to his pieces, a grace that transcends the mundane. It’s a truly wonderful collection of work to have in our gallery.”