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Rene Crigler
Iris
Automotive paint, acrylic and urethane on hollow core door
Rene’s style is heavily influenced by an earlier, formal education in the discipline of silkscreen printmaking and is reminiscent of the culture and art movements occurring during the 60s pop and 70s psychedelic eras, when she was growing up. It is a simple study of contour line-defining blocks of color, created by multiple thin layers of acrylic/gouache paint. The paintings are of easily recognizable subjects and are often narrative, employing a variety of symbols that are sometimes camouflaged.
My current work draws from five years of experience working in the motorsports industry and is an exploration of painting in my style but with some of the same materials and processes used to create F1 and Indycars. With a background in printmaking, it feels natural to me to work in this manner and I am enamored with depicting something as organic and fragile as a flower on such a high-tech, indestructible surface.
