Carla E. Reyes is a NYC based, mixed-media artist whose work incorporates textured surfaces, and an exploration of the interaction between the man-made and natural worlds. She paints semi-abstract scenes from her urban environment and excursions in nature, and also explores themes of Motherhood and Women’s issues. She is interested in focusing on specific moments in time through art-making, or meditations on seemingly mundane, everyday things, that have an often unrecognized beauty and profundity. She creates groupings of works in organic evolving series. Though different, they all share an interest in surface texture, explore with a variety of traditional and unconventional materials, and  respond to nature, her daily experiences and imagination.

 

Carla E. Reyes received her BFA in Restoration and Fine Arts from F.I.T., NYC, MA in Art Education from CUNY City College of New York, NYC, in 2012, and her MFA in Painting from CUNY Lehman College, NYC, in 2024. She has an exhibition history that spans over 20 years in NYC and along the East Coast, most recently Northampton Center for the Arts Split Level Gallery in MA in conjunction with 2024's month-long MICAfest (Mothers Institute of Collaboration and Art), Return to Motherland, two-woman show at Yashar Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Together Alone group exhibition at Stay Home Gallery in Paris, TN. She has been featured in publications such as Artist, Mother, Proud & Serious, Vol. 2, 2024; PoetryXCollage, Vol. 2, Kolaj Magazine, 2022; and Collage at 100: Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-Garde Collage) Virtual Annex, exhibition catalogue, curated by Todd Bartel, 2012. She was selected for residencies including PoetryxCollage (online) with Kolaj Magazine, 2022; and Alterworks Studios, NYC in 2020. Carla works out of her professional space at Brooklyn Art Studios in Greenpoint Brooklyn, and her home in Astoria, Queens which she shares with her husband and two young daughters.