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Wynne Reynolds
Mixed Media Artist
"You never know what you’re going to get from this imaginative artist, who likes to mix up found-object vignettes, prints, paintings and whatever’s next."
Elemental Allegory
Installation with accompanying shadowboxes. The visualization of our myths of creation and cessation. As important to life as fire, air, water and earth, are the stories we tell ourselves and others.
We burn. We breathe. We drink. We build. We grow.
We shine.
Acrylic, wood, and maps.
Installation
Installation detail
Installation detail
Shadowbox 'Jupiter'
Hold Your Breath
An installation that brings to mind shipwrecks and heartaches, whale song and love stories, bleached bones and women's woes, forbidden seas and rising tides.
Fabric, plaster, rope, wedding dresses, and found materials.
Installation
Jelly fish
Sculpture Detail
Porthole
Sail Sculpture
Fishbone Sculpture
Installation Detail
Installation Detail
Obsolete & Everlasting
The deep blue of cyanotypes, recalling a bygone method of reproduction. The fragile beauty and strength of nature. The all but forgotten achievements of individuals not recognized in their time.
Biocenosis
A calloboration between Wynne and Faith Williams during their individual shows. Inspired by the historic work of Maria Sibylla Merian and the scientific connection between host plants, moths, and brids.
Link to time-lapse.
Fabric, photography, and found materials.
Cerridwen
Biocenosis Detail
Biocenosis Installation
Backbone of the Nation
Lighting Our Way
Frameworks that play with light and shadow utilizing a melange of reclaimed materials.
Wood, paper, fabric, metal, light
Double Lantern
Lanterns
Twig Lantern
Shadow Projections
nOva
quite simply, nOva is life
Dimensional work in installation, sculpture and wall art.
Made of tar paper, plaster and paint.
bOund
dOmestic triptych
perfectiOn
pOd
one hundred and One
gOng
prOsperity
one hundred and One
Words That Wound
Words that Wound: the language of misogyny is a visualization of the effect of language on thought, from the forgotten vocabulary of our ancestors to current phrases that create harmful perceptions of femininity. Wynne's amalgam of traditionally masculine hardware and feminine fiber arts reminds us that such stereotypes are artificial, in fact “man made.” A combination of 2-D and 3-D works, as well as audience participation pieces, creates a dynamic collection.
Old Masters (Bossy)
Lock Her Up
Termagant
Bound by Words
FLUX
These experimental works are an exploration of the duality of life and the flow between these states. The dichotomy of soft and hard, female and male, flesh and bone, peace and war, are represented by fiber and metal. The end result has manifested in works that reflect domesticity and divinity. We move between these realms as easily as our continuous change of emotions.
Quickening
Nike: Winged Victory
Terra Cotta Acolytes
Celestial Triptych
Magpie
These pieces are created with 6x6” reclaimed vinyl flooring samples that were refuse from a home decor supply company. The sculptures emerged from the finding out what could be done with these samples by adding hardware, collage, and a spirit of adventure. They were part of a larger project including reclaimed materials, photos and drawings by the artist, found objects, and other ephemera.
About the Artist
Wynne Reynolds
Wynne Reynolds’ art engages her audience in a discourse not only about contemporary culture, but about the very materials she uses. Her wide array of materials and techniques make her work curious and clever, lending ingenuity and a wry sense of humor to each piece and thematic show.
Wynne studied at Parsons in Paris and earned a degree in Design from College Salette in Montreal. She began her art career working primarily in video graphics, while also creating print media and set designs. Her piece, Alter Egos: Portraits of the Human Tribe, earned her an Emmy nomination in 1996 while at KUSA 9News. She was also invited by the Denver International Film Festival to design the space for its premiere New Media Expo.
Wynne’s pursuit of craft has driven her artistic journey. She shifted her creative focus from video to abstract painting and then to mixed media. Along the way, she has taken inspiration from the craftspeople and artists she has studied and collaborated with. Since joining Edge gallery in 2014, Wynne has had free reign to explore new techniques and deliver fresh ideas, creating installations and collaborations as well as bodies of work using unusual media.
Her travels have taken her to galleries and museums in Europe, the United States and Canada. Wynne doesn’t limit herself to finding inspiration from traditional environments; she loves quirky spots like the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Cave of the Winds and the underground tunnels beneath Paris. This penchant is evident in her work as she creates visual vignettes that inspire and edify.
Wynne's show FLUX at EDGE Galley in Denver was a marriage of fiber and hardware. Incorporating her skills in fiber art and DIY, Wynne created works highlighting the contrast of hard and soft. In her show Words That Wound: the language of misogyny, Wynne used hardware and embroidery to put a spotlight on systemic sexism in our vocabulary.
In Wynne's show nOva, she took the opportunity to fill the entirety of Edge Gallery with installations and dimensional work that enveloped the viewer in a world of contrasts. Her materials were plaster, paint and tar paper. Black orbs with glowing insides of gold relayed her message: life is strange and beautiful and terrifying.
In 2021, Wynne invited three artist friends to collaborate on a show called Lighting Our Way: A Collaboration of Illumination. Each artist took the challenge on a different journey. In a darkened gallery the viewers were enchanted by art made from fiber, metal, wood, ceramics, and cardboard all lit from within.
Wynne shared the gallery space with Faith Williams and although they had their own unique shows, they also collaborated heavily in show design and themes as well as Biocenosis. This installation piece was a collaboration bringing together each artist's esthetic. Wynne centered her show "Obsolete & Everlasting" on cyanotypes depicting nature, inventions, and stories of women lost in history.
In her installation "Hold Your Breath", Wynne took over the space with a vision of sea stories. The combination of large scale sculptures evoking wrecked ships and minature creations reminsecent of sea life brought a surreal underwater dreamlike quality. While always mindful of the feminine, the wedding dressess brought to mind the ephemeral nature of fashion and passion.
Most recently, in "Elemental Allegory", Wynne created a mini installation, accompianied by shadowboxes, that combined aspects of the four elements as well as myths of life and death. The result was etherial and grounding at the same time. Iridescent figures fly above a world of wooden beings drifting down to earth. Although the beings seem non-gendered, Wynne used the female figure to create her beings, demonstrating that a generic figure does not always have to be based on the male form.
Wynne is a member of EDGE, a contemporary, non-profit, co-op art gallery dedicated to artists outside the domain of commercial art venues. EDGE pursues experimental and conceptual modes of expression to celebrate individuality and uniqueness, to encourage a shared vision, and to maintain intensity and integrity in addressing the often contradictory messages occurring in contemporary art.
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