Kit Reuther OTHERWORLD
With a rich color palette and Reuther’s signature abstracted yet organic sculptures that celebrate the end of summer, OTHERWORLD focuses on nonrepresentational fecund landscapes and futuristic geometric shapes.
Reuther’s recent paintings reference still life compositions or landscapes with washes of color, abstracted geometry, and intuitive mark-making. Her sculptures are an extension of her paintings, with totemic forms of plaster and cement.
Reuther’s work recalls Louise Nevelson, Cy TWombly, Franz West, and David Smith - on canvas and in wood and metal. Her paintings inform her sculptures, and her sculptures impart specific forms in her paintings.
Juxtapositions of soft color with heavier, saturated shapes are brought out of the canvas with layering and a manipulation of negative space. Her neutral, earthy palettes speak to OTHERWORLD, almost as if this body of work has been lying in wait for years.
Kit Reuther is a graduate of Nashville’s O’More School of Design. She has been awarded artist fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and participated in the VCCA International Residency Program in Germany, as well as the Contemporary Artists Center Residency in Massachusetts.
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