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Sydni Reubin
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Crystal Cork Art Quarterly No. 5 presents:
Sydni Reubin: From Lead to Gold
Where: The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. 1st Street, Dixon, IL
When: August 7, 2009 - October 31, 2009
Artist Reception: Friday, August 7, 2009 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Young and upcoming artist, Sydni Reubin exhibits her stunning portrait paintings
from her Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Senior Thesis Exhibition. A must
see!
BIOGRAPHY
Sydni Reubin was born in Dixon, IL and lives in Milwaukee, WI. She graduated from
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in May 2009. She has produced several
portrait commissions for prominent Milwaukee citizens, including, Mike Jones, VP,
Miller Brewing Co., and Mr. and Mrs. Willie G. Davidson of Harley Davidson, Co. In
May of 2009, she participated in fundraiser, Creative Fusion, for the Milwaukee
Institute of Art and Design to raise funds for the school student scholarship fund.
After a bidding war, she agreed to do two portraits instead of one, raising $11,000
for the school. Aside from her accomplishments at MIAD, Reubin has also done
commissioned courtroom sketching for the Lou Dobbs Tonight show on CNN. She
has worked for them in Milwaukee as well as Chicago. When asked about Reubin's
ability, CNN producer Chris Murphey said, "Sydni Reubin is talented. She can
sketch fast and sketch well in what can be a very difficult environment to capture a
scene. Imagine what she can do on a project that doesn't come with a
breakneck-speed deadline of a news organization."
FROM LEAD TO GOLD
Prominent male figures in the artist's life are the focus of these large-scale
watercolor portraits. Reubin is working with the idea of alchemy; the ancient
chemistry in which it was believed that lead could be transferred into gold. On a
broader scale, it is taking an ordinary thing and making it extraordinary. For Reubin,
alchemy happens within the act of watercolor painting and it is then that her subjects
become transformed.
Using exceptional technical skill and color sensibility, Reubin is able to create
larger-than-life images that draw the viewer in and invite them to take a closer look.
She has found a way to coalesce incredible accuracy with expressive and emotive
mark-making, and that coalescence is where the extraordinary starts to happen.
ARTIST STATEMENT
This body of work is an honest, direct look at a fleeting moment of extraordinary
beauty and feeling. It is the preservation of an intimate subjectivity and an
unguarded flash in time. This is not an attempt to freeze time, but rather to give
these moments new life through the medium of watercolor. I am looking to give the
extraordinary a place to stay.
The life of the work exists within the medium; the handling of the paint introduces the
subject under new lights. I am employing bold brushwork, the spontaneity of water,
as well as the sensuous, unforgiving nature of the pigment to give an intense clarity
to each piece.
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Crystal Cork Art Quarterly No. 5 presents:
Sydni Reubin: From Lead to Gold
Where: The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. 1st Street, Dixon, IL
When: August 7, 2009 - October 31, 2009
Artist Reception: Friday, August 7, 2009 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Young and upcoming artist, Sydni Reubin exhibits her stunning portrait paintings
from her Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Senior Thesis Exhibition. A must
see!
BIOGRAPHY
Sydni Reubin was born in Dixon, IL and lives in Milwaukee, WI. She graduated from
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in May 2009. She has produced several
portrait commissions for prominent Milwaukee citizens, including, Mike Jones, VP,
Miller Brewing Co., and Mr. and Mrs. Willie G. Davidson of Harley Davidson, Co. In
May of 2009, she participated in fundraiser, Creative Fusion, for the Milwaukee
Institute of Art and Design to raise funds for the school student scholarship fund.
After a bidding war, she agreed to do two portraits instead of one, raising $11,000
for the school. Aside from her accomplishments at MIAD, Reubin has also done
commissioned courtroom sketching for the Lou Dobbs Tonight show on CNN. She
has worked for them in Milwaukee as well as Chicago. When asked about Reubin's
ability, CNN producer Chris Murphey said, "Sydni Reubin is talented. She can
sketch fast and sketch well in what can be a very difficult environment to capture a
scene. Imagine what she can do on a project that doesn't come with a
breakneck-speed deadline of a news organization."
FROM LEAD TO GOLD
Prominent male figures in the artist's life are the focus of these large-scale
watercolor portraits. Reubin is working with the idea of alchemy; the ancient
chemistry in which it was believed that lead could be transferred into gold. On a
broader scale, it is taking an ordinary thing and making it extraordinary. For Reubin,
alchemy happens within the act of watercolor painting and it is then that her subjects
become transformed.
Using exceptional technical skill and color sensibility, Reubin is able to create
larger-than-life images that draw the viewer in and invite them to take a closer look.
She has found a way to coalesce incredible accuracy with expressive and emotive
mark-making, and that coalescence is where the extraordinary starts to happen.
ARTIST STATEMENT
This body of work is an honest, direct look at a fleeting moment of extraordinary
beauty and feeling. It is the preservation of an intimate subjectivity and an
unguarded flash in time. This is not an attempt to freeze time, but rather to give
these moments new life through the medium of watercolor. I am looking to give the
extraordinary a place to stay.
The life of the work exists within the medium; the handling of the paint introduces the
subject under new lights. I am employing bold brushwork, the spontaneity of water,
as well as the sensuous, unforgiving nature of the pigment to give an intense clarity
to each piece.
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Artists
| "Ross" from the series, "From Lead To Gold", 36" x 48", watercolor on stretched paper |
