Naomi Reis

Winter Workspace 2013
Glyndor Gallery | January 2 – March 24, 2013 

Naomi Reis’s work investigates fictitious architectural spaces. These playful building prototypes often combine the severe architecture of modernist towers with topiaries, tropical flowers, vines and water lilies. The lush greenery disobeys the stark geometry of its built environment. During the Winter Workspace the artist plans to further examine the tension between nature and architecture by making drawings in Wave Hill’s Marco Polo Stufano Conservatory. Her work has been exhibited at Kunsthalle Galapagos in Brooklyn, at the Virginia Center for Architecture in Richmond and at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. In 2011 she had a solo showon view at the Swig Arts Center in Hightstown, NJ. Reis received her MFA from the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Pictured above: Vertical Gardens (Topiaries), 2008, 80 hand-cut ink and acrylic drawings on Mylar, 55” x 35”. Courtesy of the artist.

More information at www.naomireis.com.