MAC Art Galleries: Arlene Reiss, This Week’s Featured Artist

Explore unique art to purchase, curated by the non-profit Mendocino Art Center. Discover the perfect piece for your home via our online catalog or 3D gallery walkthroughs. We’ve selected some of our favorite artists, gathering together their most exceptional, one-of-a-kind pieces to offer for sale online.

Arlene Reiss, this week’s featured artist

For the last 20 plus years Arlene’s work has been intuitively based and primarily abstract. She continues to explore a variety of mediums with much focus on acrylic, mixed media and collage. Living on the Mendocino Coast and spending part of the year on the Pacific Coast of Mexico she is very influenced by the colors and forms of the natural environment.

“It’s fascinating and mysterious that by making marks on paper a reality is created that never existed before. As I paint I become engaged in a dialogue with the piece; surprises happen, moods change and colors demand to be used. A relationship is created than can be immensely frustrating and sublimely satisfying, that has a depth reached by perseverance.”