Onyx, 2022

Painted pleated aluminum

16 x 15 1/2 x 4 inches

Fair Market Value: $700

Starting Bid: $490

Buy It Now: $1,050

JODI REEB has been a full-time working artist creating paintings and sculpture and a teacher in Minneapolis for over twenty-eight years. She has taught encaustic workshops at the Essence of Mulranny in Ireland, Zijidelings in the Netherlands, Kunstfreiraum in Basel, Switzerland, and San Miguel De Allende. Nationally, she has taught workshops at Arrowmont School of Craft, Penland School of Art, Tubac Center for the Arts, Wild Rice Retreat, Wisconsin and Haystack School of Art, Massachusetts. She has been an online video instructor with Painting with Fire for four years and has taught workshops at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts for the past seven years. She teaches monthly workshops in her northeast Minneapolis studio and offers art study coaching to artists for professional development. Reeb is represented by Gallatin River Gallery in Big Sky, Montana; Amy Simon Fine Art in Connecticut; and Kolman & Reeb Gallery in Minneapolis.

"Moving between two- and three-dimensional forms, I am constructing paintings and sculpture with repetition of forms and layer by layer. There are three main bodies of work I'm creating that are nature-inspired from landscapes, seed shapes, and organic forms. I am exploring the theme of nature's cycles through photo-based paintings, circular wall installations, and organic sculpture using steel wire and pleated aluminum. I am working to develop scale, geometry, spatial relationships, texture, and color. These works embrace the textural properties of encaustic (beeswax, pigment, and damar resin) paintings and sculpture with translucency and dimensionality. Strong physical elements come from layering and repeating organic forms."