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May
Reisz earned a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art and Art
History from Penn State University, with additional studies at
the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She
taught art in public schools, as well as at Lesley College,
Wittenberg University, and North Eastern Illinois University.
Since moving to South Carolina in 1992, she has won awards in
the South Carolina and Southern Watercolor Societies, as well
as a Best of Show in the South Carolina State Fair. Her works
have been included in the NBSC Oil Painters Invitational
Exhibit and Carolina Foothills Artisan Center. The University
of South Carolina Sumter presented a one-woman show of her
work in the spring of 2003.
Artist’s
Statement
“Many
of the memories that most influence my paintings come from
three years spent living in a small northwestern Pennsylvania
farm community when I was between the ages of seven and ten.
I didn't realize at the time that the scenes that surrounded
me during those years would emerge again and again over a
lifetime of painting. I cannot imagine removing those
images from my memory; they are so integrated into the person
I have become.
My sensitivity to nature has been further nurtured as an adult
by the rugged coastline of Maine and the beauty of the
constantly changing South Carolina marshland.”
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