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About Renee Nemerov
The great American landscape is the inspiration for Renee Nemerov's
paintings—the rich green West Virginia mountains with its waterfalls,
the pristine beaches of Lake Michigan, the Southwest's brilliant blue
skies and rugged rock formations, the lush California coastline and
breathtaking Pacific ocean views, the winding Rio Grande—interpreted
with vivid, exploding color and her own original styles in abstract or
expressionist form.
Primarily an abstract and impressionist landscape painter, but also a
skilled sculptor and portrait painter, Renee is noted for her use of
imaginative concepts, intense, rich variegated colors and fluid lines
used to convey the emotional essence of a subject.
She is the daughter of businessman turned artist David Nemerov, famous
for his huge, wall-sized, floral oil paintings, the sister of
controversial, avant garde photographer Diane Arbus, and of Howard
Nemerov, one of the first Poet Laureates of the United States. She had
the opportunity to study and learn from such great artists as the
reknowned Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, San Francisco expressionist
Robert Friemark, Jean Liberte at the Art Students League, Camillo Egas
at the New School, both in New York City, and the Swiss Impressionist,
Hanseggar.
As a result of a two-man show of their artwork at the Palm Beach
Institute, Renee and her late husband Roy Sparkia were commissioned by
Laurence Wein, then one of the building's owners, to create the eight
5' wide x 7' high illuminated panels in the Empire State Building
lobby. They depict the traditional Seven Wonders of the World, the
great pyramids of Egypt, the Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria, the
hanging gardens of Babylon, the temple of Diana, the statue of Zeus,
the mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Colossus of Rhodes. The eighth
wonder is the Empire State Building, at that time the tallest building
in the world. These huge, crystal resin and stained glass panels were
installed in the Empire State Building in 1963 and are still there
attracting millions of viewers today.
Renee is a prolific artist, painting daily and believes that art should
be made readily available and affordable for everybody. Through the
Internet, she is now able to sell her artwork directly to the
public—worldwide—rather than in a bricks and mortar gallery with its
elite audience and typical 100 percent mark-up.
She has had major shows in New York City; Palm Beach and Miami,
Florida; Traverse City and Saginaw, Michigan; Albuquerque and Santa Fe,
New Mexico; and Ventura, California. Her work was included in a U.S.
State Department traveling show, which was part of the cultural
exchange program with Russia. She is represented in the Lord
Beaverbrook Museum in New Brunswick, Canada and the Nate Cummings Sara
Lee collection in Chicago, among others, and her sculptures and
paintings are internationally collected.
"I like to paint on deep gallery wrap canvas with painted sides," Renee
says, "so that they seem almost three dimensional, and can be hung
without a frame. I think it makes for a clean contemporary look.
I love strong bold color, and different challenging compositions, and I
strive to use them to capture emotion and movement in their purest
form, and to stretch the viewer's imagination into new areas of
response. I am constantly surprised by the richness and variety of the
American landscape with its dramatic vistas and feel I will never tire
of painting them."
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