EVENTS AND GALLERY SHOWS
RENE' PALMER ARMSTRONG - BEAUTY REVISITED
Rene' Palmer Armstrong re-conceptualizes beauty and aesthetics beyond descriptive and narrative arrangements. Her mixed media works fuse painting techniques with sophisticated additions of dichroic glass, created by the aerospace program for the face-shield of astronauts’ helmets. The dichroic glass that the artist shapes into different sparkling designs is inserted over the canvas, which is then finished in flat, monochromatic metallic colors. The result is an appealing compound of visual splendor
and magnificence. Her meticulous combination of pictorial techniques
and the dichroic glass gives place to a unique and inventive result that excels beyond the tradition of modernist painting. Armstrong’s artistic approach points towards minimalism and non-objective art, defining her pictorial proposal with centrifugal linear shapes, and intermingling triangles and rectangles. It is a reflection of pure beauty and aesthetics.
Milagros Bello, Ph.D.
Curator
Curator's Voice Art Projects Contemporary Art Gallery
Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
Since April 2014, Rene' has won 34 awards in 20 competitions. In December 2016, she was invited to show at the ART BASEL MIAMI - Art Concept Fair, Modernism and Other Languages. Her award-winning artwork has been well received by galleries, and commercial and private collectors.
RENE' PALMER ARMSTRONG - BEAUTY REVISITED
Rene' Palmer Armstrong re-conceptualizes beauty and aesthetics beyond descriptive and narrative arrangements. Her mixed media works fuse painting techniques with sophisticated additions of dichroic glass, created by the aerospace program for the face-shield of astronauts’ helmets. The dichroic glass that the artist shapes into different sparkling designs is inserted over the canvas, which is then finished in flat, monochromatic metallic colors. The result is an appealing compound of visual splendor
and magnificence. Her meticulous combination of pictorial techniques
and the dichroic glass gives place to a unique and inventive result that excels beyond the tradition of modernist painting. Armstrong’s artistic approach points towards minimalism and non-objective art, defining her pictorial proposal with centrifugal linear shapes, and intermingling triangles and rectangles. It is a reflection of pure beauty and aesthetics.
Milagros Bello, Ph.D.
Curator
Curator's Voice Art Projects Contemporary Art Gallery
Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
Since April 2014, Rene' has won 34 awards in 20 competitions. In December 2016, she was invited to show at the ART BASEL MIAMI - Art Concept Fair, Modernism and Other Languages. Her award-winning artwork has been well received by galleries, and commercial and private collectors.
AWARDS:
SUGAR LAND ART CENTER (Sugar Land, TX) - Marilyn Dickey Juried Art Competition
September 8, 2018 JUDGE: Sharon Engelstein, Artist and Former Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Fellow
* 2nd Place and cash award of $1,000
Division: Open - entry was Polymer Clay and Fused Glass
WOODLANDS ART LEAGUE (The Woodlands, TX) – Spring Judged Open Lone Star Art Guild Art Show
May 19, 2018 JUDGE:
* 1st and 2nd Place
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media
* 1st Place
Division: Professional, Category: 3-D Sculpture
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2018 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
March 3, 2018 JUDGE: Nathan Jones, Curator, The Bryan Museum, Galveston, TX
* Honorable Mention
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media
CITY OF TEXAS CITY - 2017 ART FESTIVAL
April 8-12, 2017 JUDGE: Alexander Squier, Glassell School of Art, University of Houston
* Honorable Mention
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
May 13, 2017 JUDGE: Cindi Strauss, the Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and
Design, and Assistant Director, Programming at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* 2nd Place - Category: Jewelry
ART BASEL MIAMI - ART CONCEPT FAIR, MODERNISM AND OTHER LANGUAGES
Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2016 CURATOR: Milagros Bello, Ph.D., Curator's Voice Art Projects Gallery
* Invited Artist
WOODLANDS ART LEAGUE (The Woodlands, TX) – Fall Judged Open Lone Star Art Guild Art Show
November 5, 2016 JUDGE: Shirley Moore Leago
* 1st Place
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media
GALVESTON ART LEAGUE (Texas City, TX)
October 6, 2016 JUDGE: Ken Mazzu, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
* 2nd Place in Show
WYNWOOD JURIED SHOW - FALL EDITION 2016, CURATOR'S VOICE ART PROJECTS (Miami, FL)
October 1, 2016 JUDGE: Milagros Bello, Ph.D., Curator
* 2nd Place for Excellent Execution as an Artist in Mixed Media
LONE STAR ART GUILD - Consortium of 15 art leagues (Klein, TX)
July 29, 2016 JUDGE: Charles Wallis
* EXEMPLORY ART ACHIEVEMENT
* 2nd and Honorable Mention Place -
Division : Professional, Category: Mixed Media
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
May 14, 2016 JUDGE: Kathryn Hall, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
* 1st Place - Category: Jewelry
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2016 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
May 7, 2016 JUDGE: Robbie Reese Fitzpatrick
* 2nd and 3rd Place -
Division: Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
* 3rd and Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media, Non-Objective
LONE STAR ART GUILD - Consortium of 18 art leagues (Klein, TX)
June 27, 2015 JUDGE: Mary Wilbanks, NWS
* 1st Place -
Division : Semi-Professional, Category: Mixed Media
* 2nd and Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
May 9, 2015 JUDGE: Kim Clark Peneteria, Lighthouse Glass
* TECHNICAL MERIT - Category: Fused Glass
* 2nd Place - Category: Jewelry
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2015 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
March 21, 2015 JUDGE: Neldene Matusevich
* 1st, 2nd, and 1st Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
CONROE ART LEAGUE (Conroe, TX) - Spring 2015 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
March 7, 2015 JUDGE: Linda C. Dumas
* 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
HOUSTON ART SOCIETY (Houston, TX) - Fall 2014 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
November 8, 2014 JUDGE: Mary Hatcher
* 1st and 1st Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
September 6, 2014 JUDGE: Michael Crowder, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* 1st Place - Category: Fused Glass
LONE STAR ART GUILD - Consortium of 18 art leagues (Woodlands Marriott Hotel, TX)
July 19, 2014
* 3rd Place -
Division : Non-Professional, Category: Mixed Media
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2014 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
April 5, 2014 JUDGE: Cheryl Sutter Wooten, WAS-Houston
* 1st and 2nd Place
Division: Non-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
PREVIOUS GALLERIES & SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
AFFAIRE d'ART (Galveston, TX) 2014, 2015 - featured artist for Artwalk
ART CONNECTIONS, Bastrop and La Grange, TX) 2016-2019
THE ART OF COFFEE (Kemah, TX) 2016, 2017
THE ART LEAGUE OF BAYTOWN, 2015, 2016, 2018
BACKBAY EMPORIUM (Galveston, TX) 2014, 2015 (La Porte, TX) 2019
THE WORK OF THE HAND: a celebration of fine craft, CAMEO (Houston, TX)
and THE ART LEAGUE OF BAYTOWN, 2016 - Clay and Glass Collector's Show
EVELYN MEADOR LIBRARY (Seabrook, TX) 2015 - solo show
GALVESTON ART LEAGUE (Galveston, TX) 2016 Fall Juried Show
G. LEE GALLERY (Galveston, TX) 2014 - featured artist for Artwalk, 2019
KEMAH FLOWERS & CO. (Kemah, TX) 2014, 2015, 2016
LATITUDE 28 2' (ROCKPORT, TX) 2015, 2016, 2017
SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) SHOW, G. LEE GALLERY (Galveston, TX) - Juried Exhibition 2017
TEXAS CITY ART FESTIVAL (Texas City, TX) 2014, 2018, 2019
TOMMY'S RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR (Clear Lake, TX) - 2014 - solo show
UPPER BAY GALLERY (League City, TX) 2015, 2016
URBAN RESORT (Galveston, TX( 2015, 2016 - featured artist for Artwalk
WYNWOOD JURIED SHOW, FALL EDITION 2016 - CURATOR'S VOICE ART PROJECTS (Miami, FL) - Juried Exhibition 2016
ZAZOO FINE ART GALLERY (Key West, FL) 2016, 2017
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SUGAR LAND ART CENTER (Sugar Land, TX) - Marilyn Dickey Juried Art Competition
September 8, 2018 JUDGE: Sharon Engelstein, Artist and Former Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Fellow
* 2nd Place and cash award of $1,000
Division: Open - entry was Polymer Clay and Fused Glass
WOODLANDS ART LEAGUE (The Woodlands, TX) – Spring Judged Open Lone Star Art Guild Art Show
May 19, 2018 JUDGE:
* 1st and 2nd Place
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media
* 1st Place
Division: Professional, Category: 3-D Sculpture
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2018 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
March 3, 2018 JUDGE: Nathan Jones, Curator, The Bryan Museum, Galveston, TX
* Honorable Mention
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media
CITY OF TEXAS CITY - 2017 ART FESTIVAL
April 8-12, 2017 JUDGE: Alexander Squier, Glassell School of Art, University of Houston
* Honorable Mention
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
May 13, 2017 JUDGE: Cindi Strauss, the Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and
Design, and Assistant Director, Programming at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* 2nd Place - Category: Jewelry
ART BASEL MIAMI - ART CONCEPT FAIR, MODERNISM AND OTHER LANGUAGES
Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2016 CURATOR: Milagros Bello, Ph.D., Curator's Voice Art Projects Gallery
* Invited Artist
WOODLANDS ART LEAGUE (The Woodlands, TX) – Fall Judged Open Lone Star Art Guild Art Show
November 5, 2016 JUDGE: Shirley Moore Leago
* 1st Place
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media
GALVESTON ART LEAGUE (Texas City, TX)
October 6, 2016 JUDGE: Ken Mazzu, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
* 2nd Place in Show
WYNWOOD JURIED SHOW - FALL EDITION 2016, CURATOR'S VOICE ART PROJECTS (Miami, FL)
October 1, 2016 JUDGE: Milagros Bello, Ph.D., Curator
* 2nd Place for Excellent Execution as an Artist in Mixed Media
LONE STAR ART GUILD - Consortium of 15 art leagues (Klein, TX)
July 29, 2016 JUDGE: Charles Wallis
* EXEMPLORY ART ACHIEVEMENT
* 2nd and Honorable Mention Place -
Division : Professional, Category: Mixed Media
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
May 14, 2016 JUDGE: Kathryn Hall, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
* 1st Place - Category: Jewelry
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2016 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
May 7, 2016 JUDGE: Robbie Reese Fitzpatrick
* 2nd and 3rd Place -
Division: Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
* 3rd and Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Professional, Category: Mixed Media, Non-Objective
LONE STAR ART GUILD - Consortium of 18 art leagues (Klein, TX)
June 27, 2015 JUDGE: Mary Wilbanks, NWS
* 1st Place -
Division : Semi-Professional, Category: Mixed Media
* 2nd and Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
May 9, 2015 JUDGE: Kim Clark Peneteria, Lighthouse Glass
* TECHNICAL MERIT - Category: Fused Glass
* 2nd Place - Category: Jewelry
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2015 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
March 21, 2015 JUDGE: Neldene Matusevich
* 1st, 2nd, and 1st Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
CONROE ART LEAGUE (Conroe, TX) - Spring 2015 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
March 7, 2015 JUDGE: Linda C. Dumas
* 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
HOUSTON ART SOCIETY (Houston, TX) - Fall 2014 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
November 8, 2014 JUDGE: Mary Hatcher
* 1st and 1st Honorable Mention Place -
Division: Semi-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
GLASS GATHERING ART SHOW (Pasadena, TX)
September 6, 2014 JUDGE: Michael Crowder, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* 1st Place - Category: Fused Glass
LONE STAR ART GUILD - Consortium of 18 art leagues (Woodlands Marriott Hotel, TX)
July 19, 2014
* 3rd Place -
Division : Non-Professional, Category: Mixed Media
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - Spring 2014 Lone Star Art Guild Annual Show Qualifier
April 5, 2014 JUDGE: Cheryl Sutter Wooten, WAS-Houston
* 1st and 2nd Place
Division: Non-Professional, Category: Abstract, Non-Objective
PREVIOUS GALLERIES & SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
AFFAIRE d'ART (Galveston, TX) 2014, 2015 - featured artist for Artwalk
ART CONNECTIONS, Bastrop and La Grange, TX) 2016-2019
THE ART OF COFFEE (Kemah, TX) 2016, 2017
THE ART LEAGUE OF BAYTOWN, 2015, 2016, 2018
BACKBAY EMPORIUM (Galveston, TX) 2014, 2015 (La Porte, TX) 2019
THE WORK OF THE HAND: a celebration of fine craft, CAMEO (Houston, TX)
and THE ART LEAGUE OF BAYTOWN, 2016 - Clay and Glass Collector's Show
EVELYN MEADOR LIBRARY (Seabrook, TX) 2015 - solo show
GALVESTON ART LEAGUE (Galveston, TX) 2016 Fall Juried Show
G. LEE GALLERY (Galveston, TX) 2014 - featured artist for Artwalk, 2019
KEMAH FLOWERS & CO. (Kemah, TX) 2014, 2015, 2016
LATITUDE 28 2' (ROCKPORT, TX) 2015, 2016, 2017
SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) SHOW, G. LEE GALLERY (Galveston, TX) - Juried Exhibition 2017
TEXAS CITY ART FESTIVAL (Texas City, TX) 2014, 2018, 2019
TOMMY'S RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR (Clear Lake, TX) - 2014 - solo show
UPPER BAY GALLERY (League City, TX) 2015, 2016
URBAN RESORT (Galveston, TX( 2015, 2016 - featured artist for Artwalk
WYNWOOD JURIED SHOW, FALL EDITION 2016 - CURATOR'S VOICE ART PROJECTS (Miami, FL) - Juried Exhibition 2016
ZAZOO FINE ART GALLERY (Key West, FL) 2016, 2017
COMMISSION REQUESTS GLADLY RECEIVED
Please click here CONTACT ME and complete the form.
