About Bill Reis​

 

A graduate of Providence College and Rhode Island School of Design, he also received a painting fellowship from Skidmore College. His paintings have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and are in many private and corporate collections.

 

Selected Exhibitions:

Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI

South County Art Association, Kingston, RI

Veterans Art Museum, Chicago IL
William Whipple Gallery, S.W. State University, Marshall, MN
Venado Tuerto, Traveling Exhibit, Argentina, SA
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff Wales, UK
Robertson Gallery, New York, NY
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
Warwick Museum, Warwick, RI
Providence College, Providence, RI
Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
Dome Gallery, New York, NY
J.B.Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Limner Gallery, New York, NY
Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
Rhode Island School of Design, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Lincoln Center, New York, NY
McKillop Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI

Bristol Art Museum (Arte Corajosa), Bristol, RI

 

Selected Awards:

Southwest State University

Ucross Foundation
Wickford Art Association
Rhode Island Council of the Arts Fellowship/Grant
Newport Art Museum
Community College of Rhode Island
Polaroid Foundation
Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY, Fellowship/Grant

Selected Teaching:

Salve Regina University, Newport, RI

Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Providence College, Providence, RI

Auburn High School, Auburn, MA

 

Reviews

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"Reis' studied divided and segmenting of canvases is mainly an exploration of two-dimensional proportional systems.  Moreover, Reis' concerns are those of a painter; his strength lies in his skills as colorist and composer.  His savvy balancing and measuring of simple elements and fields of color that in less skilled hands could appear simplistic. His disciplined approach is refreshingly rigorous."
Review by Lois E. Nesbit, Art Forum International

 

"As a foil to this weave of  brushwork and softness of contour, Reis creates a highly controlled and geometrical simplified background that holds the composition in check.  Nowhere, however, is the artist's technical virtuosity more apparent then in his use of color.  Reis combines the most subtle shifts of hue with dramatic tonal contrasts, all the while employing arrange of color that is faultlessly and effortlessly beautiful."
Review by Deborah Johnson, former Curator of Prints and Drawings RISD Museum;
Currently Professor of Art History, Providence College

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"Interchanges form agones among the shapes, colors and composition, building tensions upon tensions.  The mood strikes a nerve with an undercurrent of frenetic energy different from calming expanses seen heretofore and yet thrilling to behold."
Review by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Art New England

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Bill Reis’ oil painting “Barrow of the Undiscovered” is a much darker unearthing, and invitingly mysterious in its execution.

By Alexander Castro, Newport Mercury