RESUME:  Carl Rainey

Artist's Statement:

This latest series called the Nebula Series is concerned with kinetic moving shapes being illuminated with changing neopixel colors thru 3D space.   I feel my early influences of this type of work comes from my interest in science and astronomy, and from seeing colorful images of American Indian, Mayan, Inca, and Middle Eastern civilization art and pictures as I grew up.  We had nice color picture books of the world, which greatly affected me.
   

MY TAKE ON SPACIAL ISSUES: 
In this series I wanted to have movement and light somehow. As an engineer I looked into the different kinds of space:  literal space, depicted space, two dimensional and three dimensional space, including 4th dimensional space, and space as we see it every day, and even all the scientific equipment versions of the electromagnetic spectrum, from infrared to light to x-rays to gamma rays, etc.  Well, I ended up with moving 3-D space with color changing algorithms. 


MAJOR ART INFLUENCES:  The major art influences on my art have been Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella, the Minimalists and the Constructivists; and now James Turrell, and the California Light and Color art movement, and and also the Fetish Finish California group. 


EXHIBITIONS: SMALL AND LIMITED
2019: Hambidge Center Auction, Halloween Bash.  One of 10 invited artists to be the entertainment with 3 of the Nebula pieces in the show.
1983: One Person Show: Valdosta State College:  Electronic Tapestries:  Lisa Kent-Tapestries, Carl Rainey-Electronics.
1981: Group Show: "Into the Night" at Nexus Gallery-Atlanta--Electronic Tapestries: Lisa Kent-Tapestries, Carl Rainey-Electronics.
1976: Georgia Institute of Technology: paintings-Student Center show.
1972: Paintings-Represented by Gallery Illien, Atlanta, Ga.
1972: Urban Walls finalist: 1of 15 of 200. Works of 15 in group show at High Museum.

COLLECTIONS: 
Various Collections

EDUCATION:
Georgia Institute of Technology

WORK HISTORY:

30 year electrical engineering career at Scientific Atlanta-Cisco Systems. 

"Worked as artist as best as I could 'very part time' during this career phase time of my life". Stored up work during this time.

I now thankfully have a 4800 square foot heated and air conditioned art studio, built while I was still working full time.

Retired with hopefully more time to do art.  Working at it.