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Chorus (Translation: choir).
Edition 3/5.
23×23 inches, Print on handmade
Japanese rice paper Japanese rice paper.
$ 3000.

Vita by Reenie Barrow
Vita 3/5. ( translation: life).

Edition 3/5., 23×23 inches, Print on handmade
Japanese rice paper Japanese rice paper.
$ 3000.

In Proscaenium
In Proscaenium ( translation: in stage).

Edition 1/5, 23×23 inches, Print on handmade
Japanese rice paper Japanese rice paper.
$ 1,500.

ARST’S STATEMENT
Reenie Barrow
Myphotographsrepresentmylongstandinginterestindocumentingthedetailsofdaily
lifearoundtheworld.MycareerhasledmeonexplorationsfromHavanatoHanoi..
TheimagesIhavemadeconcernquietplaces..placesthatsoothe,placesthatinspire,
places that give pleasure to the senses. In focusing my attention on specific objects, I am
attemptingtoportraytheordinaryasobjectsofinherentbeautyworthyofscrutinyand
contemplation.FiveyearsoftraveltoGreekmountainvillagesculminatedwiththe
publication of my book, Wreath of Dreams: Visions of Greek Villages (Kastaniotis
Editions).
Most recently my attention has been focused on making flower images as metaphors. My
goalistomakemyphotographsworkontwolevels…visualandemotional…tomake
themvisuallycompellingaswellasservingascatalystsfortheviewertocontemplate
words, sensations, or memories.
IfindIcanmosteffectivelyalloweachflowertotellitsstorybyusingasimple
background and relying on the balance, symmetry, and interaction between the flowers to
create its tale.
IamplayingwiththeuseofLatintocategorizebotanicalspecimensbyusingLatin
wordstocreateatitleforeachofthestoriesunfoldingbehindtheglass.Anequally
compellingreasonformetouseLatinisanodandtributetomygrandmother,Yester
Samuelian,whoasastudentinMarzvanCollegein1899,didaseriesofbotanical
pressings… allwiththeir properLatinnames. Theyproudly gracethewalls ofmyhome
today.
IhaveusedSpanishfortheCallaLillyphotographsbecausethesewerealldonein
Mexico and as a tribute to renowned Mexican artists who used Calla Lilies extensively in
their photographs and paintings.
Other than my flower images, I use place as the title.
Ihaveenjoyedexhibitingmyimagesaroundtheworld,andoneofthemostfunaspects
of doing thisis getting tomeet people ineach country, whetherover a cupof tea intheir
kitchens,oroveraglassofwineatanopening.Iamconstantlysograciouslyreceived
that I only hope I am giving something of value back to them.

  • Reenie Barrow

    S e l e c t e d S o l o E x h i b i t i o n s:
    2021 Work sold in Fine Art Action, Doyle Auction House, NY,NY
    2020 Work sold in Fine Art Auction, Doyle Auction House, NY, NY
    2019 Reenie Barrow The Design Center at 200 Lex, NY,NY..Robert Burge 20th Century Photography
    2019 The Secret Life of Flowers. Galleria Casa Diana, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
    2019 Calla Lilies of Mexico, Sofi’s Home Interiorismo, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
    2016 NetWorks 2016, produced by Joseph A. Chazan, M.D. A documentary of selected artists will be
    featured on a RI PBS broadcast. The work of the artists will be exhibited the Newport
    Art Museum with an accompanying catalogue.
    2013 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY,NY, Reenie Barrow, Recent Work
    2012 Association of International n Photography Dealers, NY,NY, Reenie Barrow, Flora
    2011 Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI Reenie Barrow..Flora
    2010 Association of International Photography Dealers, NY,NY Reenie Barrow, Flowers, Beds, and
    Stonehenge
    2008 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Flora
    2008 Association of International Photography Dealers, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Flora
    2007 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY,NY, Photographs of Reenie Barrow
    2006 Mango Tango, St. Thomas, VI, Reenie Barrow, Metaphors..Botanical Rice Prints
    2006 Association of International Photography Dealers, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Flowers as Metaphors
    2005 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Rice Prints
    2005 Mango Tango Gallery, St. Thomas, VI Reenie Barrow, Inside the Caribbean
    2005 Devonish Art Gallery, Anguilla, BWI..
    2004 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY, NY, Reenie Schmerl Barrow, Storied Places
    2001 Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo TX, Opening Doors in Vietnam
    2001 U.S. Embassy, Hanoi,Vietnamese Urban and Rural Life
    2001 Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI, Details of Daily Life…France, Greece, Vietnam, Mexico,
    New England, and Sweden
    2000 U.S. Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam
    2000 Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode, Island
    1999 University of Rhode Island, Legacies of the Vietnam War
    1999 Robert Burge Twentieth Century Photographs, LTC. NY,NY, Reenie Barrow, Sculptural
    Photographs
    1999 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. Recent Work
    1999 Gallery One, Miriam Memorial Hospital, Providence, RI
    1998 Robert Burge Twentieth Century Photographs, Ltd. NY, NY. New Mexico, France, and Sweden
    1998 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. Photographs of Costa Rica and Mexico
    1997 Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, RI. Unlocking Doors in Sweden, France and New
    England.
    1996 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. Photographs of Sweden, France, Greece and New England .
    1995 Robert Burge Twentieth Century Photographs, Ltd., New York, NY. Reenie Schmerl: Recent
    work. Also showing, O. Winston Link.
    1995 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. New England and Greece.
    1993 The Greek Institute, Cambridge, MA . Visions of a Greek Villages.
    1990 Quinebauag Valley Community College, Danielson, CT. Work and Days.
    1990 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Work and Days.
    1989 National Bank of Greece, Boston, MA . Reenie Schmerl Photographer.
    1988 National Bank of Greece, Boston, MA. Photographs of Greek Villages by Reenie Schmerl.
    1988 Lawrence Art and Antiques, Chatham, MA. Greek Villages.
  • 1988 Photography Center of Athens, Athens, Greece. Photographs of Greece.
    1987 State Capitol, Hartford, CT. Featured Connecticut Artist.
    1987 Zappion National Gallery, Athens, Greece. Featured Artist, International Month of Photography.
    1987 Lawrence Art and Antiques, Chatham, MA. Greek Villages and Connecticut Porches.
    1987 Camera International, Athens, Greece. Reenie Schmerl: Connecticut Porches traveling
    exhibition to schools and museums throughout Greece.
    1986 Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT. Recent Work.
    1986 Gallery Jazz, New Haven, CT. Greek Villages.
    1986 Photohoros Gallery, Athens, Greece. American Porches and Greek Villages.
    1984 Midtown Y Photo Gallery, New York, NY. Front Porches.
    1982 Gnosis Gallery, New Haven, CT. French Street Scenes.
    1980 Artworks Gallery, Asylum Hill Artists’ Cooperative, Hartford, CT. American Front Yards :Tales
    From the Bush.
    1979 A.C.C.E.S.S. Gallery, San Diego CA. New Landscapes, San Diego Neighborhoods.
    1978 Archetype Gallery, New Haven CT. Flash Series.
    S e l e c t e d J o i n t E x h i b i t i o n s:
    2022 Providence Art Club, Members Show
    2022 Newport Annual, National Jurried show, Newport, RI
    2021 Newport Annual, National jurried show, Newport, RI
    2020 Newport Annual, National jurried show, Newport, RI
    2019 Providence Art Club, Barrow, Heydt, McKenzie Philbrick
    2019 Rhode island Art League elected members exhibition,Providence, RI
    2019 Linden Place Invitational, Bristol RI Members of the Providence Art Club
    2019 Barrow, Heydt, Philbrick, McKenzie at the Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
    2019 H.P. Lovecraft Exhibition at the Providence Art Club, juried exhibition
    2019 Art in Bloom, Blithewold Mansion , Gardens & Arboretum
    2019 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, annual juried members’ show
    2019 Providence Art Club, Members Show
    2018 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, annual juried members’ show
    2018 Providence Art Club, Members Show
    2017 Providence Art Club, Providence RI, Members show
    2016 Small Works, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
    2016 Little Pictures Show, Providence Art Club, Providence,RI
    2016 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, annual juried members’ show
    2015 Rhode Island Art League at the Newport Art Museum
    2015 Art in Bloom, RI Federation of Garden Clubs, Roger Williams Botanical Center, Providence, RI.
    2015 Association of International Photographers Dealers, New York Armory, Park Avenue,NY,NY,
    Robert Burge Gallery. Reenie Barrow, featured photographer
    2015 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA, Botanica
    2015 Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California, Living Arrangements, eight photographers recording
    impressions of Southern California in the 70s
    2015 Providence Art Club, Providence RI, Three Photographers, Reenie Barrow, Eileen McCarney
    Muldoon, & Ron Rosenstock Three Visions, One Passion
    2014 Doyle New York, the Robert Burge Collection
    2014 Providence Art Club, Members Exhibition, Second Place Pasquale Masiello Award
    2013 Art Leage of Rhode island, Providence Art Club, Members Exhibition
    2013 Providence Art Club, Members Exhibition, Dr. Stanley Summer Award for outstanding
    photography
    2012 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA, Contour: Reflections on Form..Reenie Barrow and Joshua
    Enck
    2012 Art League of Rhode Island, Jamestown Arts Center..Visit, View and Collect….
    2012 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Revealing and Concealing…Four Women Photographers
    2012 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI Members Exhibit, Honorable Mention
    2011 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI Members Exhibition, Honorable Mention
    2011 Providence Art Club, Summer Exhibit, First Place Edward Bannister Award
    2010 Providence Art Club, Providence,RI The Secret Life of Flowers..Reenie Barrow and Penelope
    Manzella

  • 2010 Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, Haitian Relief Fundraiser

    2010 The Art of Excellence, Art League of Rhode island 10
    th
    Anniversary Show, Rhode island School
    of Design, Providence RI
    2010 Providence Art Club, Summer Show, Providence, RI
    2009 The Photograph Now, Invitational Exhibition, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
    2009 Providence Art Club, Members’ 2009 Exhibition, Providence, RI, Second Place William Brigham
    Award
    2008 Association of International Photography Dealers, Reenie Barrow, Overview, NY, NY
    2008 Art League of Rhode Island, Annual Exhibition, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
    2008 10
    th
    Annual Fidelity Investments All Media Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club
    2008 The Providence Art Club, New Members
    2007 The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, NY,NY
    2007 The Providence Art Club, Members’ Show
    2007 Art League of Rhode Island, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
    2006 Green River Gallery, Bristol, RI….Three Artists, Three Viewpoints
    2006 Newport Art Museum, Art League of Rhode Island
    2004 Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 3
    rd
    annual Photo Auction
    2004 A & C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI, Celebrate Art- The Art League of Rhode Island
    2003 Bristol Art Museum 25 Years, Outstanding Exhibitors
    2003 5
    th
    Annual Juried All Media Competition, Fidelity Investments, Providence Art Club, RI
    2003 Third Annual Members’ Exhibition, Art League of Rhode Island, University of RI
    2002 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, Made in Cuba,…Reenie Barrow, Laura Colella, Tom Morrissey,
    David Wells
    2002 Manuel Alvarez Bravo Center of Photography, Oaxaca, Mexico, Oaxaca Portraits
    2002 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Little Compton, RI, The Art League of Rhode Island
    2001 Havana Center for Photography, Havana, Cuba, Reenie Barrow – Cuban Interiors, Reenie Barrow
    and Stephen Whittelsey, Where is Elian?
    2000 Fidelity Investments, Smithfield, RI New Acquisitions
    2000 Warwick Art Museum, Vietnam Revisited
    2000 Providence Art Club and Fidelity Investments, A Celebration of RI Arts and Artists
    2000 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol,RI, Something in the Air
    1997 The American Heart Association, RI. Affiliate, Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI the healing
    heART.
    1997 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Common Ground: Pairs of Artists- Bart Parker and Rita DeWitt,
    Olivia Parker and Jonathan Sharlin, Darrell Matsumoto and Alexandra Broches, Jane Lazerow
    and Reenie Barrow. Curator and exhibitor.
    1994 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Reenie Schmerl Photographer and John Udvardy, Sculptor.
    1994 Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rhode
    Island Women Speak.
    1992 Sun Valley Center Gallery, Sun Valley, ID. Contemporary American Photographers: Barbara
    McElhinny, Gaylord Herron, Brney Imes, and Reenie Schmerl.
    1992 National Photography Museum of Greece, Athens, Greece.
    1987 Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT. Eight Women Photographers.
    1987 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions.
    1987 Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT.
    1987 Aetna Art Gallery, Hartford, CT. The Chair in Art.
    1987 University of Lowell, Lowell, MA. Invitational Exhibition.
    1986 Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Memorial Auditorium, Hartford, CT. Inaugural Exhibition: Four
    Photographers: Ellen Carey, Marna Clarke, Charles Reich and Reenie Schmerl.
    1986 Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. The New England Landscape – Tom
    Hricko, Keith Johnson, Reenie Schmerl, Timothy Feresten, Ted Hendrickson and Robert
    Hennessey.
    1986 Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
    1985 Connecticut Artists Showcase, New Haven, CT. Five Connecticut Artists: selected by the curator
    of the Yale Art Gallery.
    1984 Connecticut College, New London, CT. Reenie Schmerl and Sandy Hale, Recent Work.
    1984 Pennsylvania State College, State College, PA. National Competition.
    1984 Erie Center for the Arts, Erie, PA . Photonational.
    1984 Los Angeles, CA. International Art Competition.
    1983 City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY. Four Photographers, J. Ross Baughman, Tom
    Patton, Reenie Schmerl, and Michael Spano.
    1983 Sante Fe, NM. Film and Photo Invitational: A Survey of American Photography and Independent
    Film.
    1982 Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL. The Landscape national competition.
    1981 Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Eleven Connecticut Award Recipients from
    the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
    1981 Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA. Women on the Scene.
    1981 Wardsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT. Artworks at the Athenaeum.
    1981 New England School of Photography, Boston, MA. Reenie Schmerl Urban and Rural Landscape
    photographs and recent work of Dan Younger.
    1981 New Bedford, MA. The Swain School of Design Invitational Photography Exhibition traveling
    exhibition of 12 New England photographers.
    1980 Keene State College, Keene, NH. Into the Eighties: New England Photography travelling
    exhibition.
    1980 Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT. National competition Self Portrait.
    1980 Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Women on the Scene, Eleven American Women
    Photographers.
    1979 San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA.
    1978 Slater Museum, Norwich CT. The Family.
    1978 International Center of Photography, Educational Gallery, New York NY.
  • P U B L I C A T I O N S
    M o n o g r a p h s a n d B o o k s:
    Town & Country Magazine, photograph featured in an article, Life in Red Velvet, the collection
    of Phillip Sarofim, February, 2022
    Renewing the Dream: from parking to Places in Southern California, photograph of –
    Clairemont CA included. Publisher, Woods Bagot, 2022
    Reenie Schmerl Barrow, The Wreath of Dreams: Visions of Greek Villages. Poetry Selections
    and Translations by Athan H. Anagnostopoulos. Athens: Kastaniotis Editions, 1992.
    Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner (eds.), Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Tenth Edition.
    New York: Harcourt Brace College Publisher, 1996.
    Cheryl Moch (ed.), Feels Like Home. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1995
    Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the
    U.S. Department of State. New York: Harry Abrams, Inc., 1991.
    Nicholas Gage, A Place for Us: Eleni’s Children in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
    Company, 1989.
    Nicholas Gage, Hellas: A Portrait of Greece. Villard Books, 1987.
    Ann and Samuel Charters.Literature and Its Writers, Second Edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001
    Ann and Samuel Charters, Blues Faces, A Portrait of the Blues,
    Godine, 2001
    Photography Quarterly,Center for Photography at Woodstock, Exploring the World of
    Contemporary Photography…featured artist selected by Robert Mann, Robert Mann Gallery,
    NY,NY
    E x h i b i t i o n C a t a l o g s a n d P e r i o d i c a l s:
    Tsepelovo, Memories of a Greek Village, 2 volumes 2018
    Artscope, New England’s Premier Culture Magazine, January/February 2017, Art as Impetus
    in Rhode island
    Networks 2015 and 2016, produced by Joseph A. Chazan, M.D. Showcasing and celebrating the
    work of 24 Rhode Island artists.
    Doyle, New York, January 15, 2014, Auction, The Yale Burge Collection
    Rhode Island Monthly,March, 2013 featured in an article, Artful Living
    Architectural Digest, A Private Home in Telluride, February, 2006
    Photography, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Spring 2002 issue, Photography Now,
    selections by Robert Mann. What’s new? What’s Now?
    Country Living, Hearst Publications, Bristol on the 4th of July, July, 2001
    Country Living, Hearst Publications, A House in the Country, May, 2001
    Country Living, Hearst Publications, Simple Country Pleasures, May, 2000
    Country Living, Hearst Publications, American Icons, Windsor Chairs. 1999
    Country Living, Hearst Publications, Featured artist on cover and in Our House of the Year, A
    Dream House for You to Build spread, February, 1997
    Visions Toward Wellness, The Arts and Healthcare: A Partnership in Healing Conference,
    Providence RI
    Country Living, Hearst Publications, Country Classics You Can Buy, September, 1996
    The Chair in Art, Aetna Art Gallery, Hartford, CT, 1987
    Photograph, Athens, Greece, Reenie Schmerl, A Portfolio, 1987
    Camera International, Hellenic Center of Photography, Athens, Greece, International Month of
    Photography, Featured Artist 1985
    Images, A Connecticut Photography Show Retrospective 1982-1986, Hartford, CT., 1986
    State of the Arts, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, summer edition, Featured Artist, 1985
    The Finished Print, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Farmington, CT, 1985
    The Finished Print, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Farmington, CT, 1984
    Photonational, Erie Center of the Arts, Erie, PA, 1984
    American Photographer, April, 1982
    Points of View, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, 1980
    Reenie Barrow Flora, 2012 Robert Burge/Twentieth Century Photographs, Ltd., NY,NY
    MOTION PICTURES
    Side by Each, City Pound Production..Richard Allen, writer and director, featuring Blythe Danner
    and Larry Bryggman…still photographer 2006
    Stay Until Tomorrow, No Tribes Film/Sundance Institute Production, Laura Collella, writer and
    director..still photographer..2002
    Tax Day. Lucky Pictures production. Laura Collela, writer and director. John Laval, producer.
    1997, Providence, RI..still photographer
    Temporary Girl. Temporary Films production. Lisa Kotin, writer and co-director. Johnny White,
    producer and co-director. 1997, Chicago, IL
    Still Photographer
    Immunizing Children and The Dangers of Lead Paint, still photographer, produced by the Rhode
    Island Department of Health, 1998 (used in publicity campaign throughout state)
    H O N O R S A N D G R A N T S
    Networks 2016 A showcase of 12 Rhode Island artists selected by Joseph A. Chazan, MD,
    featured in museum exhibitions, individual videos created by Richard Goulis screened in
    galleries, museums, and on PBS, and featured in a Catalogue produced by Dr. Chazan
    Kostas Macadonias Award, Ministry of Culture of Greece and the Hellenic Center of
    Photography. Presented every two years to four individuals “for their contribution to Hellenic
    photography and to the culture of Greece through photography,” Athens, Greece.
  • Individual Artist Grant, Connecticut Commission of the Arts, 1980
    First Prize ( for the series, In the Footsteps of Atget in Paris) Shoreline Alliance for the Arts,
    Connecticut
    First Prize, Photonational, Erie Center for the Arts, Erie, PA
    First Prize, Providence Art Club,2011
    Outstanding photography award, Providence Art Club 2011, Providence RI, 2012,
    Second Prize, Providence Art Club, 2009
    Dr. Stanley Summer Award for outstanding photography, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
    2013
    Pasquale Masiello Award, Second Place, Providence Art Club, 2014
    C O L L E C T I O N S
    Pfizer Art Collection
    Fidelity Investments
    U.S. Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam
    New York Public Library Collection, NY, NY
    Connecticut Bank and Trust
    Art Institute of Chicago
    Readers Digest
    Merrill Lynch
    IBM
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
    The National Photography Museum of Greece
    Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.
    Numerous private collections
    E D U C A T I O N
    B.A., University of California, Berkeley
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