Kerene Rivera

Based in Dallas, Texas, Kerene Rivera is an emerging figure in contemporary American art. With a varied education from Scottsdale, Arizona to Paris, France, Rivera has studied under esteemed painters and illustrators, honing her skills in both art and fashion design. Her experience managing the prestigious Beaudry Gallery, where she supported solo exhibitions for luminaries like Peter Max, testifies to her keen aesthetic eye.

Rivera explores the artistic realm guided by Rothko's bold simplicity, Van Gogh's vibrant transformation, Monet's illumination of light, and Richter's solitary concept. Her journey began in oils, but it was the vivacity and immediacy of acrylics that claimed her heart. Her artistic toolbox—equipped with brushes of varying sizes, palette knives, and scrapers—helps her translate her inspirations drawn from colors, architecture, and nature into abstract representations.

Rivera approaches each canvas as a void seeking light, a still beauty waiting to be transformed. Her paintings—each an inferential journey to spiritual understanding—unfold organically, beginning with an emotive call of a color, sometimes infused with a loose concept. The resulting artwork is a narrative woven from the dance of light and dark, a...

• Bauder College, Fashion Design & Illustration (Dallas, Texas)

• Université Paris-Sorbonne, Art & Fashion Design (Paris, France)

• Scottsdale Artists’ School, Life Drawing & Color Theory (Scottsdale, Arizona)

• Silent Auction, North Texas Grief & Loss Center - Dallas, TX (2019)

• Solo Exhibition, Four Ten Gallery - Dallas, TX (2018) — kerenerivera.com/photos-four-ten-gallery

• Silent Auction, North Texas Grief & Loss Center - Dallas, TX (2018)