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Rhea Reeves Stein

Drawing, Fiber, Multimedia, Painting, Public Art, Sculpture / Installation, Visual / Media

My creative process includes both intentional and random applications of mixed media. The random portion of my process reflects that part of life which is chaotic and the intentional portion reflects the recognition of the control I do have in my response to chaos. I cannot change the chaotic, I can only navigate it.
Every artwork starts with a gestural sublayer that inspires the rest of the work. I work in phases modeling organic shapes and then create contrast with line and color.

About the Artist

Rhea Reeves was born in Louisville, KY in 1978. She received her BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in late 2000. Originally a stone and wood carver, Rhea made a big shift in artist materials when suffered head and spinal injuries in a car accident in early 2000. She had to  explore lighter materials. Rhea was inspired by Magdelena Abakanowics Abakan works. She started working in installation art using paper,wax, plaster, cotton fiber, metal, and thread. Her works have evolved to sculptural paintings and assemblage pieces. Rhea has sold over sixty custom works through Steven Greenwald Design for corporate and residential needs in South Florida. She worked as a private art teacher for The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. Rhea has exhibited in juried and solo shows, sold her artwork through word of mouth and private commissions in Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and Florida. In 2021, her sculptural painting Flame of Hope was awarded first prize ,for the juried show Dynamic, at D’Art Center in Norfolk, VA. Rhea currently works and resides in Walkersville, MD.    

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Featured Work

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Sculptural mixed media painting in soft monochromatic warm tones. Part of her Pursuit of Love series. https:/www.rheareevesfinearts.com
This blue sculptural mixed media work consists of thread, cotton, acrylic and metal. It is apart of her Surfaces series. Surfaces is about the exploration of life in layers.
Large sculptural mixed media work is made of metal, wire, fabric, acrylic, cotton batting, and thread. Rhea collaged fabrics from around the world blending them with thread and paint. This work is an expression of her hope of a more peaceful blended society. How humanity works better together than separate.
Sculptural mixed media painting made of thread, acrylic, wire, cotton batting. This sculptural painting has curving crevices, violet hues with pops of gold. This is a work from Rhea's Pursuit of Love series.
This is a commissioned portrait that Rhea calls her essence portrait. She paints in an intuitive process after she interviews her client. Instead of painting an actual likeness of the person, she paints her interpretation of the person's essence.
This is a commissioned essence portrait of a woman named Joan. In Rhea's essence portrait, she uses an intuitive process where Rhea interviews the subject/person and then paints the essence of that person rather than the physical likeness.

Written Works