My paintings romanticize the magic coincidences of encountering a bug, making new friends, and inventorying personal data into a symbolic alphabet.
I source from real time as well as from the archives of photos, memory, and dreams. Interested in how these means of existing overlap, relate and digress from one another, the paintings exploit the thresholds, errors, and edits created within these relationships.
They are virtual landscapes mapping cognitive spaces, studying subjectivity and communication in between media and language. Using tertiary colors provocative of queerness, they reproduce everyday icons and imagery into androgynous, new hybrid forms.
They are otherworldly, slow reads that ask a question that has many answers.
RenÉe Silva is a visual artist & educator
in Boston MA & Providence RI
Education
2016 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Bachelor of Art in Painting, Departmental Honors, Boston MA
exhibitions & projects
2019 Free Form, LGBTQIA Artist Alliance, Gallery 263, Cambridge MA
Boston Key Party, Stove Gallery, Charlestown MA
Sectional, Dorchester Art Project, Dorchester MA
2018 Art on the Marquee:Video Wall via Boston Cyberarts, Boston Convention Center, Boston MA
Matter of Intention, Crossings Gallery @ Harvard Ed Portal, Allston MA
Secret Gardens, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA
Who Needs People When You Can Love Things, Craft & Caro, Boston Design Building, Boston MA
2017 Crosscurrents, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA
Rose Ceremony, Casablanc, Roxbury MA
Hydra via Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance, Midway Gallery, Boston MA
Coded via Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance, Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge MA
Emotional Currency in the Digital Age, Godine Gallery Boston MA
In Response, Godine Gallery, Boston MA
2016 A Group Show, Thomas Young Gallery, Boston MA
A House Show, Ratsnest, Allston MA
A conclusion, Godine Gallery, Boston MA
Into it, over it, Student Life Gallery, Boston MA
Float dreams = 4D*cosradiansflower+sky; Godine Gallery, Boston MA
Tombstone (in case you never knew me) Godine Gallery, Boston MA
Painting All School Show, Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 ^to Interpretation, Student Life Gallery, Boston MA
SIM BIG, Godine Gallery, Boston MA
(SIM) Artists Making Art About Artists, Godine Gallery, Boston MA
Carnage, SkyCastle, Roxbury, MA
Violence Transformed, Roxbury Community College, Roxbury, MA
Painting All School Show, President's Gallery, Boston, MA
Converging Lines, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 The Empathic State, North Crackatorium, Boston, MA
FA-2D Open House Pop-Up Show, Kennedy Building MassArt, Boston, MA
The Restore Show, North Crackatorium, Boston MA
awards
2016 Dean Nimmer Auction Award, MassArt
MassArt Merit Award, MassArt
2015 Gamlbin Paint Supply, MassArt
2013 Van Gogh Vision Award, North Reading High School
publications
2019 Art, Went there: Sectional @ Dorchester Art Project, Boston Hassle
2018 Art, Went there: Matter of Intention at the Harvard Ed Portal, Boston Hassle
Art, Chosen Shows, POP-UP SHOP: WHO NEEDS PEOPLE WHEN YOU CAN LOVE THINGS – CLOTHING RELEASE, Boston Compass
2017 Review: Art Edition, Boston Compass
Casablanc Market, Boston Magazine
A Self-conscious Cube, Godine Family Gallery Catalog 2015-2016, Blurb Publishing
2016 FA-2D Senior Catalog, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
teaching experience
2018-19 Art Teacher, North Attleboro Middle School, North Attleboro MA
2016- Current Youth Programs, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA
2017- Current K-12 Visual Arts, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown MA
