Rinat Goren
- California
- Painting
Rinat Goren is interested in human beings as individuals. She celebrates the freedom we have and explores the boundaries we encounter. Inspired by individuals who use their mind to think and to solve problems, Goren expresses the human’s endless and diverse abilities. Her work conveys...Read More
ABOUT THE ARTIST
STATEMENT
Rinat Goren is interested in human beings as individuals. She celebrates the freedom we have and explores the boundaries we encounter. Inspired by individuals who use their mind to think and to solve problems, Goren expresses the human’s endless and diverse abilities. Her work conveys the abstract subjects of thoughts and mind work, connections and consequences within and between people. Goren’s art is an invitation to explore how thoughts are formed, how concepts are grasped, how decisions are made and how actions are a consequence of thoughts.
BIO
Rinat Goren was born and raised in Israel and moved to the US as a young adult.
Growing up, Goren always created and observed art but only as an adult she recognized art as her calling to be an artist. Starting with acrylics she later discovered encaustic and immediately made the switch. Beeswax turned out to be perfect for layering her abstract work and creating depth and volume.
Goren is inspired by people around her who are thinkers, innovators, problem solvers and decision makers. She adores human’s unique ability to think and apply reason and her art conveys - abstractly - the process of thinking, forming a concept, ‘connecting the dots’ and making choices.
Goren participated in numerous juried and solo shows and her work can be found in residences and companies in the Bay Area and the US.
EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS/COMMISSIONS
2022
Radical Regeneration: (July-October).
Juried show at the:
Fiber show at the San Jose Museum of quilts & Textiles
‘My Cup Of Tea XIII’
Rain Of Thoughts- solo show
Whitney Modern Gallery
Los Gatos, CA
Greater Bay Area: Juried show
Numu museum, Los Gatos CA
2021:
Siy Gallery ‘Elements of Nature’, group show
Siy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fiber Arts X, group juried show
Sebastopol Center for the arts, Sebastopol CA
Metamorphosis, Encaustic group show
Tubac Center for the arts, Tubac AZ
Art Saloon, group juried show
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
ConVERGEnce Group juried show
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Local Talent, group show
Healdsburg Center For the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
The Pleasure of Color, juried show
ArtWordDowntown San Rafael, CA
2020:
Figure it out, Juried show (virtual)
Healdsburg center for the Arts
Flux: Wax in All Forms, juried show (virtual)
Arts Benicia
Recent corporate commission: Paul Weiss Law Firm (3 large pieces)
EDUCATION
1989- Tel Aviv University, Israel. BS in Physical Therapy
2000- UC Berkeley Ext. –Certificate in Interior Design
AWARDS
2022- Best of show for Mixed Media: Greater Bay Area: Juried show
Numu museum, Los Gatos CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PT- 1989-1998 various hospitals and clinics in the Bay Area, CA
Artist volunteer Kids & Art Foundation 2008- current
Board member -Kids & Art Foundation 2019-2021
Curriculum Director -Science Is Elementary org.
TAGS
abstract artist, artist in California, artist in the Bay Area, encaustic artists, painting thoughts, painting thinking people