Bernard Re Jr

Lyrical abstraction art is a story, it’s the art I make, an externalization of released emotions, worries and expectations. It is my story.

I have been creating art for over sixty years. My work has been exhibited in group and solo situations. I have participated in gallery talks on many occasions, most recently at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. My newest body of work uses pastels and charcoal for color and brush applied satin acrylic glazing liquid in an over-painted application. Layered on and complementary to this atmosphere of color I tell a story of the work in images of line and shape with matte black acrylic paint. The energy of the line is always present in my work. Whether it be linear or edge.

These marks on a surface I’ve seen as waves of energy, DNA strands, vibrations of quantum strings of "Possibilities". Edges, shapes, dimensions and depth; defining ideas, portraits and scenes, of the imagined and real, accidental and intentional. I believe it is within these "Possibilities" where it all starts. Where art is waiting to be made and discovered. "Possibilities" for both this artist and the observers.

This has also been a journey through various mediums. In enamel paint, oil paint, ceramic glazes, yarns, colored pencils...

Massachusetts College of Art

Selected Exhibition History:

2024 Solo: Hygienic Art Gallery New London CT
Graffiare Figures (160 tiles) and multi-tile work

2006 Solo: Westport Art Center CT

2008 Solo: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center New Lebanon NH
20 large enamel paintings

2026 Group: Cape Cod Museum of Art MA
Visual Voice: Freedom to Create, 2026 Annual International Juried Exhibition

2025 Group: Amherst Art Alliance Gallery MA
United We Stand: Art for Divisive Times

2045 Group: Slater Museum 78th Annual CT Artists Norwich CT

2008 Group: Members Show Westport Arts Center CT

2006 Group: The Ridgefield Guild of Artists CT

2006 Group: 63rd. Annual CT Artists Exhibition, Slater Museum Norwich CT 2006

2002 Group: Ridgefield Guild of Artists 25th Annual Juried Exhibition CT

1982 Group: New Britain Museum of American Art Small Paintings Exhibition

1979 Group: National Art Center SoHo NYC

1979 Group: Paula Insel Gallery NYC

1975 Group: Annual Art of the Northeast: Silvermine Artists Guild New Canaan CT
Laura M. Gross Painting Award