Mary Lee Reineking - Owner - STUDIO #2

ARTIST STATMENT

Art-making for me has become a journey of discovery, beginning with watercolors and growing from there. I have found great satisfaction each time I learn to use a new medium, learning and experimenting with tools and techniques, textures and color. My current work is primarily mixed media, done with acrylics and painted paper collage. However, I’ve also been working with oil and cold wax medium as well as acrylic monoprinting. I do recognize some constants. My approach is the same, regardless of medium. I seldom start with a sketch, often beginning without a clearly defined goal. I might only have a sense of general subject or preferred color palette or basic compositional format, and as the layers and textures develop, so does my direction. My finished work tends to be colorful, stylized, and sometimes a bit whimsical, with my subjects gravitating to trees and leaves, flowers and birds. It’s a process of adding, lifting, and layering paint that I find very satisfying. 

ARTIST BIO  

Reineking is a member of Q Gallery Artists Cooperative in Stevens Point and a studio artist on the Hidden Studios Art Tour.  She is, additionally, represented at The Pink Llama Gallery in Cedarburg, WI.    She has works in the collection of Marshfield Clinic Health System on display at multiple campuses, and at The Inn at SentryWorld in Stevens Point.  

Mary Lee Reineking's work has been included in many public art exhibits. Recent shows include:  

2024 

• Small But Mighty II….Gallery Q….Stevens Point, WI…group show  

• Hidden Studios Art Tour…Central Wisconsin   

2023 

• The Art of Monarchs…Alexander House..Port Edwards, WI…juried show 

• Whimsy and Wonder….Gallery Q…Stevens Point, WI….4 person show 

• Culture and Agriculture…New Visions Gallery…Marshfield, WI..juror Shannon Gardner 

• Phantom Gallery…. Waupaca, WI…invitational exhibit 

• Little Tiny Mini Show…. Pink Llama Gallery…Cedarburg, WI… invitational exhibit 

• Hidden Studios Art Tour…Central Wisconsin   

2022 

• Culture and Agriculture…New Visions Gallery…Marshfield, WI 

• Walk on the Wildside…Gallery 110 N…Plymouth Art Center, Plymouth, WI…invitational show 

• Phantom Gallery…. Waupaca, WI…invitational exhibit 

• Dr. Seuss exhibit…Pink Llama Gallery…Cedarburg, WI… invitational exhibit 

• Hidden Studios Art Tour…Central Wisconsin    

2021 

• Everyday Women…Gallery Q…Stevens Point, WI….solo show 

• Hidden Studios Art Tour…Central Wisconsin