I am a colorist. When I start painting, I have no idea what I’m going to do. My
subconscious mind pulls the paints...pulling these ideas out. The balance, design
and textures are all reflections of my inner "spirit"
-- Bren Quiett Reisch
AFAP is proud to announce that a piece of Bren’s work has been chosen to
appear in an art theory book. Look for "Exploring Colors," written by Nita Leland
and published by North Lights Publishing.
Bren’s work has its roots in Abstract Expressionism, automatic and spontaneous
nonobjectivity combined with mystical interpretations of color and line. Each
painting is an energetic assertion of her personality, individuality and identity. Her
fascination with texture, and the chance effects of manipulating paint and the
painting surface in ways other than by the brush, make each work a brilliant,
intensive exploration.
Bren’s versatility in painting is evident in her work. Many pieces offer bold strokes
of primary colors of unparalleled richness, in jarring contrasts and conflicts, densely
and dashingly painted with spontaneity, leaving each stroke or splash unmodified.
In these works the painted surface is just that -- a reflection of Bren’s intense
experience of paint and color...the process of painting becomes automatic and
direct. Colors seem to explode, limited only by the boundaries with the painting,
spontaneous and unconstrained, appearing to have absorbed the artist into its swirl
and to have painted itself.
Though this type of painting, often referred to as "action painting," may seem
formless at first we need only reflect upon the vast new vocabulary of forms that the
surface of the earth itself yields to modern eyes and imagination. As in the world
around us, the complex weaving of endless and intricate relationships of living
forms are given a visual presence in Bren’s work.
Bren’s work reflects her striving for an unplanned immediacy and directness,
resulting in an effect of spontaneous freshness of statement. As Jackson Pollack
said, "...it doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as
something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement." A
perfect description of Bren’s work.
Professional Associations
The Ohio Watercolor Society
Cincinnati Art Club
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Inc., NY
The Women’s Art Club of Cincinnati
Watercolor Society of North Carolina
Wake Visual Arts Association, Raleigh, NC
The Wilmington Art Association, NC.
Bren earned a Commercial Art/Interior Design degree from Miami University in
Oxford, Ohio and studied at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. Her work has
received awards at the Viewpoint’96-Cincinnati Art club; North Carolina Azalea
Festival Shows ‘1994, 1996; Watercolor Society of North Carolina and the Franklin
Square Gallery, Associated Artists of Southport, NC. Her art is held in corporate
and private collections throughout the United States and in Canada and Scotland.
Artist Profile
Bren Quiett Reisch
Quiett Concepts Art Studio
5890 Woodthrush Lane
West Chester, OH 45069 USA
513-759-9261
Bren Quiett Reisch