Klari Reis
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On View: March 30 to April 27,2024
Artist Reception: Saturday, April 20, from 4-6pm
Exhibition on view in Annex Gallery #211, inside the Minnesota Street Project.
Roseate, 2024
plinth sculpture
ceramic stoneware and wire
6 x 6 x 6 inches
Roseate seen in the round.
Violet, Violet , 2024
plinth sculpture
ceramic stoneware and wire
12 x 9 x 9 inches
Violet, Violet , seen in the round.
Ultramarine, 2024
7 x 7 x 6 inches
ceramic stoneware with glaze, monofilament cord and aluminum sleeves.
Ultramarine seen in the round.
Amaranth, 2024
plinth sculpture
ceramic stoneware and wire
12 x 12 x 12 inches
Amaranth seen in the round.
Glauconite, 2024
wall sculpture
ceramic stoneware and wire
12 x 12 x 12 inches
Glauconite seen in the round.
Cobalt, 2024
wall sculpture
ceramic stoneware and wire
11 x 9 x 9 inches
Cobalt seen in the round.
Gamboge, 2024
ceramic stoneware and wire
7 x 5 x 5 inches
Gamboge seen in the round.
Terre Verte, 2024
ceramic stoneware and wire
8 x 8 x 7 inches
Terre Verte seen in the round.
Candid, 2024
wall sculpture
ceramic stoneware, wire, and epoxy
11 x 11 x 9 inches
Candid seen in the round.
Propagate, 2024
wall sculpture
epoxy on cut wood
49 x 34 inches
Effervesce, 2024
wall sculpture
epoxy on cut wood
45 x 45 inches
Exhibition Views
Artist Statement
For the spring exhibition season, Themes+Projects gallery presents Zoom In, Zoom Out by Klari Reis.
Inspired by biology, and the Wassily Kandinsky quote, "Everything starts from a dot," her biomorphic forms are imbued with Klari's energy - radiant, dynamic and playful - and invite us into her unique world. The exhibition showcases eight new biomorphic sculptures and two new epoxy paintings on woodcut, which celebrate the mysteries of the microscopic and all that is unknown. Her practice is centered in the intersection of art, science, and technology as she continues to explore new techniques while always pushing the boundaries of her use of ceramics and epoxy.
Past Exhibition
Life Forms
Themes+Projects X MDG Art Adivisory
On View: 05/07/22 to 07/09/22
Artist Reception: Saturday, 06/04/22, 5pm-7pm
Exhibition on view in Annex Gallery #211, inside the Minnesota Street Project.
Past Exhibition View
Artist Statement
Life Forms are the latest in Klari 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 Klari’s 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 pigments. The UV-resistant epoxy supplies a common framework for the methods and language that she uses to explore and express interactions of material and color on a microscopic level. Compositions display brightly colored smears, bumps, stains, and blobs atop petri dishes, aluminum, wood panels and paper. She pigments the plastic with powders, oils, acrylics, and industrial dyes, built up through many layers of the ultra-glossy plastic. A skilled technician with a studio for a laboratory, Klari has turned these processes of her own invention into science in the service of her art.
Artist Bio
Klari Reis lives and works in San Francisco. Her art has been widely exhibited internationally, and is included in the collections of Stanford University, Google, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Microsoft, Genentech, and The Gates Foundation.