The Artist

Biography/Resume

Award-winning artist Roberta Remy, whose work can be found in corporate and private collections throughout the US, Brazil and Europe, attended Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League of New York. There she studied painting with master painters Frank Mason, George Passantino, David Leffel, and Sherrie McGraw; and drawing and anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale. She has exhibited at the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts. Remy has been featured in International Artist's new book, "How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Life and Florals", published in January, 2004.

Previously a New York-based illustrator whose clients included Macmillan Publishing, Playskool, Cabbage Patch Kids, and McDonalds, she now makes Santa Fe, New Mexico her home base, where she's been expanding her teaching activities since 1995.

When I fell in love with painting, it was the Old Masters and the American Impressionists who inspired my artistic search. Their traditions and techniques are the standards that I have set for myself. It's my endless quest to learn how they accomplished their magic. I strive to develop my craft to the highest standard. I feel a great reverence for the basics and for the time and care devoted to the entire process necessary to create a work of art. With each work, I seek to deepen my understanding of the language of drawing…to explore the beautiful, mysterious and magical qualities of light…to paint it, and to capture its endless variations and effects…to bring to my paintings the illusion of sculptural form through the play of light upon the subject…to explore how atmosphere envelops the whole natural beauty of the subject…to give life to the work with a strong painterly quality.

Finally, when I paint my subject, I fall in love with its finest and best qualities. I perceive its nobility and elegance; whether it's an old man, a little child or an apple. At that time, the light and the subject become the important focus, to be expressed in the most moving and spiritual interpretation.

Born: Brooklyn, New York

Education (1958-1991)
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Art Students League, New York, NY

Exhibitions

Juried Shows

• Las Vegas Arts Council, 16th Annual National Juried Show, Las Vegas, NM
• Art Students League, Works by Members, New York, NY
• Oil Painters of America, National Show, Kirkland, WA
• Masterworks of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• International Artists Magazine
• Oil Painters of America, West and Southwest Regional, Pueblo, CO
• American Women Artists, 2nd Annual Competition, Taos, NM (prize winner)
• Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York, NY
• National Arts Club, New York, NY
• American Artists Professional League, New York, NY
• Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

One- Person Exhibition
St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA
Partners in Art Gallery, North Tonawanda, NY

Awards

• Award Winner, Pastel Society of New Mexico, 16th National Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM
• Award of Excellence, Masterworks of New Mexico, 2005 Rio Grande Art Association, Albuquerque, NM
• Recipient of the Oil Painter's of America Shirl Smithson Memorial Award
• Third Place, Masterworks of New Mexico 2004 Rio Grande Art Association Annual Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM
• Advertising Award, American Women Artists 2nd Annual Competition, Taos, NM
• Concourse Awards, Art Students League, New York, NY
• Helen O'Brien Merit Scholarship, Art Students League, New York, NY

Articles/Publications

Artist of the Month, Rio Grande Art Association Monthly Newsletter,
The Palette, October 2005
International Artist's Book, "How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Life and Florals"
Southwest Art, November 1999

Professional Activities

September 2007, Juror for Impact Artists' Gallery National Portrait Show, "About Face", Buffalo, NY

Galleries

Edward Dare Gallery
31 Broad Street
Charleston, SC 29401
843-883-5002
email: edwarddare@bellsouth.net
www.edwarddare.com

Sandpiper Gallery
1019-C Middle Street
Sullivan's Island, SC 29482
843-883-0200
www.edwarddare.com

Related Activities
For several years, was a New York based free-lance illustrator. Clients included Macmillan Publishing, Playskool, Ohio Art, Coleco, Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc., and Wm. Carter & Co. During this time, designed and created the majority of licensed art work for Cabbage Patch Kids; commemorative dishes for McDonalds; illustrated children's books for major publishers; concept creation and artistic interpretation for product licenses such as Richard Scary, Smurfs, Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake, and created an original line of theme animals for Kendall Co.