Reni Gower
RENI GOWER
Sacred Geometry: The Matrix of the Universe
Reni Gower is an artist, curator, educator. Her work has been exhibited at international and national venues for over 40 years and represented in collections such as the Global Centre for Drawing, Melbourne, Australia; the Library of Congress Print Collection; the American Embassies in Lima, Peru and Osaka Japan; Capital One; and the Federal Reserve Bank.  She is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2023 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper and a 2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2017, she was awarded SECAC’s Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. In 2014, she received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teacher of Art Award, as well as distinguished teaching awards from Virginia Commonwealth University and VCUarts. Gower also curates award winning traveling exhibitions that include COLLECTive Concerns: Collage and Assemblage; The Garden: Thistle and Thorn, FLASHPOINTS: Material/Intent/Fused, Geometric AljamÃa: a Cultural Transliteration, and Pulped Under Pressure: the Art of Handmade Paper. After 37 years, Professor Emerita Gower retired from Virginia Commonwealth University in December 2018. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University, an MA from the University of MN-Duluth, and a BS from the University of WI-Madison.
Gower’s artwork is inspired by sacred geometry, which is thought to convey sacred and universal truths by reflecting the fractal interconnections of the natural world. By reiterating these patterns and ratios, her work unlocks the language of abstraction through the collective recognition of geometric perfection.  No matter the medium (acrylic monoprints, encaustic and pulp paintings, or papercuts) the process and images are intentionally contemplative for the maker and the viewer.  Gower’s art celebrates slow work made by hand, while it counters visual skimming and encourages quiet reflection.
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