Kristen Reitz-Green
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BoldBrush Recommends: Kristen Reitz-Green
Biography
Kristen Reitz-Green is an award winning oil painter and mosaic artist known for her large scale realistic paintings of food and glass. Her work is in collections around the United States and Canada. She recently relocated to San Juan Island. During her 17 years on Vashon Island- where she was deeply involved in fostering a thriving arts community- she served as a founding member of Vashon Island Visual Artists (VIVA), the Vashon Center for the Arts Notable Collection and Swiftwater Gallery. While her own iconic work had long been a beloved feature of the Vashon Art Studio tour, Kristen also curated many collective art shows in the spirit of supporting emerging artists. Kristen's work has been represented at various galleries around the PNW and she has been featured in publications such as Gourmet De Mexico, the Seattle Times and "The Classic Honeybear in Art and Design" online. She has also been commissioned by restaurants and food enthusiasts for her paintings of food, including celebrity chef John Schenk for his honey bear themed restaurant in Los Angeles. Her work has been seen in Artswest, the Cole Gallery, the Coos Bay Art Museum, Collective Vision Gallery, The Federation Gallery(CAN), the FoodArtCollection, Peninsula Arts, Red Sky Gallery, the San Juan Island Art Museum, Sequim Arts Museum, the Silverwood Gallery, Swiftwater Gallery, Vashon Center for the Arts Summerfest and Notable Collections, and the Valise Gallery.
"At a distance, my paintings look realistic or even hyperrealistic but the true thrill of painting for me lies in the abstractions that are created when you look closely. I create large scale paintings of glassware, old bottles and food. I want a viewer to see my paintings from in two ways, one far away and one close at hand. These perspectives will exemplify the dichotomy of realism and abstraction within the same work of art. I love to work with colors so juicy you want to eat them and with subject matter that leaves the viewer salivating. I believe my pieces are connected by depth of color, use of reflections and imparting nostalgia. I owe much of my process to Chuck Close, whose work and books I have poured over to learn and to Wayne Thiebaud, for his influence on my use of color and choice of subject matter."
Prior to becoming an artist, Kristen was a classical French Horn player, member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and instructor of horn at Western Washington University. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Hartt School of Music. She has been the faculty of four colleges and performed widely in the Pacific Northwest, NYC and Florida as well as touring the US with several Broadway show tours.
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