Kit Reuther

b. 1957, Nashville, TN
My paintings and sculpture continue to expand on a personal vocabulary of primitive marks and abstracted shapes. I work in an explorative manner that often leaves behind remnants of my editing whether it’s hyper-minimal abstraction or complete visual pattern.
Saffron
Saffron

Anchored by an intuitive awareness of spatial order, Kit Reuther employs her own brand of architectural abstraction to deconstruct representational forms in paintings and sculptures. While minimalist and seemingly restrained, her works hum with a tranquil yet emotive energy. Her most recent paintings loosely reference still life compositions organized across the canvas, where washes of color, abstracted geometry, bits of texture, and gestural markings make the suggestion of form. The evidence of her hand in layering and spreading of paint, sometimes beyond the frame, animates expanses of negative space within neutral, earthy palettes. As an extension of her paintings, Reuther’s powerful sculptural works are sleek, linear distortions of abstracted shapes and more organic, totemic forms. Reuther’s elegant juxtapositions of forms and approaches recalls masters of abstract sculpture and painting like Louise Nevelson, Cy Twombly, Alberto Giacometti, and Constantin Brancusi.

Kit Reuther, a graduate of the O’More School of Design, in Nashville, is a born and bred Nashville artist. She has been awarded artist fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She participated in the VCCA International Residency Program in Germany and the Contemporary Artists Center Residency in Massachusetts. She exhibits frequently across the United States, including San Francisco, Santa Fe, Charlotte, Atlanta, Nashville and Memphis. Her works are in the collections of Ridgemont Equity Partners, Charlotte; Woodmont Booth Trust, California; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; Landers & Associates, Memphis; A Tennessee Collection, TN Senatorial Office, Washington, DC; BellSouth Building, Nashville; Southeastern Asset Management, Memphis; nexAir, Memphis; Duncan Williams Inc., Memphis; Dollar General Collection, Nashville; and Nordstrom stores across the country.

pdf download cv
Saffron
Saffron
Bird
Bird
Peonies After Dark
Peonies After Dark
Seven Lakes and a Snake
Seven Lakes and a Snake
Lawn Games
Lawn Games
Toy Clouds
Toy Clouds
#1645-3d
#1645-3d
#1646-3d
#1646-3d
#1647-3d
#1647-3d
#1648-3d
#1648-3d
#1649-3d
#1649-3d
Bird and Box Kite
Bird and Box Kite
Green Rebus
Green Rebus
Menagerie
Menagerie
Abstract #1626
Abstract #1626
1637-P
1637-P
1638-P
1638-P
1639-P
1639-P
1640-P
1640-P
1641-P
1641-P
1642-P
1642-P
Pottery Collection
Pottery Collection
Abstract #1629
Abstract #1629
#1631
#1631
Abstract #1627
Abstract #1627
Otherworld Flora
Otherworld Flora
#1628
#1628
Objects with Blue Shadows
Objects with Blue Shadows
Otherworld Fauna
Otherworld Fauna
#1579
#1579
#1619-3d
#1619-3d
#1620-3d
#1620-3d
#1621-3d
#1621-3d
#1622-3d
#1622-3d
#1521-3d
#1521-3d
#1291-3d
#1291-3d
Saffron
Saffron
oil on canvas, 60x60
2023
Bird
Bird
oil on canvas, 60x60
2023
Peonies After Dark
Peonies After Dark
oil on canvas, 60x60
2023
Seven Lakes and a Snake
Seven Lakes and a Snake
oil on canvas, 60x60
2023
Lawn Games
Lawn Games
oil on canvas, 60x60
2023
Toy Clouds
Toy Clouds
oil, graphite on canvas, 60x60
2023
#1645-3d
#1645-3d
bronze, 28x21x11
2023
#1646-3d
#1646-3d
bronze, 31x13x12
2023
#1647-3d
#1647-3d
bronze, 40x15x14
2023
#1648-3d
#1648-3d
bronze, 34x10x10
2023
#1649-3d
#1649-3d
bronze, 32x14x6
2023
Bird and Box Kite
Bird and Box Kite
oil on canvas, 52x48
2023
Green Rebus
Green Rebus
oil on canvas, 40x40
2023
Menagerie
Menagerie
oil on canvas, 48x52
2023
Abstract #1626
Abstract #1626
oil on canvas, 44x64
2023
1637-P
1637-P
oil on paper, 19x13
2023
1638-P
1638-P
oil on paper, 19x13
2023
1639-P
1639-P
oil on paper, 19x13
2023
1640-P
1640-P
oil on paper, 19x13
2023
1641-P
1641-P
oil on paper, 19x13
2023
1642-P
1642-P
oil on paper, 19x13
2023
Pottery Collection
Pottery Collection
oil, gold leaf on canvas, 56x60
2023
Abstract #1629
Abstract #1629
oil on canvas, 48x50
2023
#1631
#1631
oil on canvas, 60x60
2023
Abstract #1627
Abstract #1627
oil, graphite on canvas, 42x40
2022
Otherworld Flora
Otherworld Flora
oil on canvas, 60x80
2022
#1628
#1628
oil on canvas, 28x28
2022
Objects with Blue Shadows
Objects with Blue Shadows
oil on canvas, 58x58
2022
Otherworld Fauna
Otherworld Fauna
oil on canvas, 60x80
2022
#1579
#1579
oil on canvas, 36x34
2021
#1619-3d
#1619-3d
powder coated aluminum, 60x44x31
2022
#1620-3d
#1620-3d
powder coated aluminum, 51x27x34
2022
#1621-3d
#1621-3d
aluminum, 53x28x16
2022
#1622-3d
#1622-3d
powder coated aluminum, 51x27x35
2022
#1521-3d
#1521-3d
wood, wax, 32x17x16
2020
#1291-3d
#1291-3d
powder coated aluminum, 83x10x8
2015

Newsletter Signup

Please select a gallery location.
Interested in specific artists? Select your artists of interest to receive updates.