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Jeanne Rehrig
Originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Jeanne attended Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia for two years before moving to California in 1978. Here she attended the San Francisco Art Institute and received a BFA and MFA, graduating with her masters in 1984. She moved from San Francisco to the East Bay in 1997 and has been living and working in Richmond for over 20 years. She’s also a proud member of VAR (Visual Artists of Richmond). Jeanne’s worked in a variety of jobs including teaching, textile design and as off late, director in an afterschool program. Always making art, she uses a variety of mediums including oils, acrylics and as of late, watercolors and gouache.
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Artist Statement
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Jeanne gets her inspiration from nature. She works from life and from photographs. Her early artistic influences were the American Abstract Expressionists, particularly Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. Other early influences were Georgia O’Keefe and Arthur Dove, who worked from nature and found abstract color and form equivalents for inner emotional states. In her recent work, Jeanne attempts to combine abstract elements with somewhat realistic interpretations of plants.
As a young child she discovered you could stretch brown paper shopping bags over the radiator cover in the upstairs apartment her parents rented. Here, she painted a giant tulip as a gift for her kindergarten teacher. Some things never change, and here she is, 60 years later, painting large plants, not on bags on radiator covers, but on paper on the floor and table of her Richmond studio.
