"Life Forms" is the latest in Reis’ ever-changing artistic exploration of the systems of biology and of the beauty and design displayed in nature. Her engagement with these systems has taken her from the microscopic workings of cells, as far afield as the uncanny re-envisioning of city maps as biological blueprints, to these newest, macro paintings of nature triumphant, imposing its own …
"Life Forms" is the latest in Reis’ ever-changing artistic exploration of the systems of biology and of the beauty and design displayed in nature. Her engagement with these systems has taken her from the microscopic workings of cells, as far afield as the uncanny re-envisioning of city maps as biological blueprints, to these newest, macro paintings of nature triumphant, imposing its own order on the world.
A unifying theme of Reis’ art is her mastery of a new-media plastic, epoxy resin, and the fine control she brings to its reactions using a constantly expanding variety of dyes and …
