Klari Reis Research

Klari Reis

Klari Reis is an artist who creates vivid pieces of art. She then uses the different pieces of art that she creates and photographs them, which can be used to preserve the art that she has made, but also be used to capture the different shapes and colours that she has held within her art.

Throughout her work it is clear that Reis enjoys working in colour. Her3 main projects, "Street Anatomy", the "apothecary Project" and the "Petri Dish project" all show her experimentations with colour and how she has manipulated it to create different pieces of art.

Reis uses many different medias and often experiments when creating her work. She lives close to one of the largest concentrations of life science companies in the world, which allows her to experiment with a variety of different materials. She uses layers of UV – Resistant plastic and then pigments them with different layers of ink, acrylic, powders and industrial dyes.

Personally, my favourite pieces of her work is her petri dish pieces. I like these due to the different shapes and patterns that have formed in the dishes, and how unique they all are. She has used a different colour palette in each Petri Dish, which shows how different colours react with each other. My favourite style of Petri Dishes is when Reis has used a dark colour as the base for the dish, and then used a lighter colour like white on top. This is effective as the light colours have been broken by the dark colours and this creates a veiny effect which I think is very unique. The different processes that she has used has added a lot of detail which makes her work very different from other artists. I am influenced by her use of colour and how she has used a scientific approach to create detail and unique pieces of art. I like her use of bold colours and how the inks and materials have reacted against each other to create new styles of art.

She has used the Petri Dishes that she has created and photographed them. The Petri Dishes have also been exhibited in groups of 30, 60 or 150 pieces. She has had her work exhibited worldwide