INGA REYNOLDS

Biography
Inga Reynolds, a native of Denmark, has resided in Toledo since 1956.

Education
Most of her formal art training took place at the University of Toledo, Department of Art. Her concentrations have been in drawing, painting and more recently, printmaking.

Exhibitions
Her works have been shown in many exhibits, including national, regional and local exhibitions. These include "The Ottawa Gallery National Print Exhibition" (1993), "Spectrum's 1990 Women Artists' Regional Exhibition" and "Six Women Painters", an exhibition at Omnisphere Gallery. She has also exhibited her works at several Area Artists Shows at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Awards
She has received many awards as part of local juried exhibitions, with some fifty awards during the last decade. During 1997 she received the Purchase Award from the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, as part of their Art in Public Places Program. This work was subsequently selected to be exhibited at the Owens-Illinois Gallery in 1999.

Current
Her works can be seen currently at The Collector's Corner at The Toledo Museum of Art and at The American Gallery. Her current interests focus on lithography, pastels, and mixed media.

Statement
Lithography lends itself well to experimentation with abstract images, which is my focus for this exhibit. I often begin with a line or a splash, without knowing what the result will be. Just seeing what develops is what I enjoy.

I try to convey movement, bold colors and excitement with pastels by combining a certain lithograph with a certain spot in nature.

Sometimes this process of experimentation works; other times not. It is, however, the not knowing that continues to interest me.

Inga Reynolds