biography

Renya Parnes (b. 1986, New Jersey; resides in Massachusetts) operates outside conventional visibility, grounding her work in deep solitude and sacred practices. As a contemporary painter, her practice focuses on languages of abstraction. Driven by a lifelong, non-linear engagement with materiality, Parnes’s worldview was refined through formal research into social constructivism and the Reggio Emilia philosophy; investigating the pre-verbal, tactile languages of perception, activation, and resonance.

Parnes’ methodology engages with different spheres of perception. Creating site-specific, immersive, restrictive environments centered around the experience of experiencing.