Klari Reis uses the tools and techniques of science in her creative process, constantly experimenting with new ways to apply materials and methods. She is driven by curiosity and her desire to explore and document the natural and unnatural with a sense of wonder and joy. 

A skilled technician with a studio for a laboratory, Klari has turned these processes of her own invention into science in the service of her art. The unifying theme of Klari’s art is her mastery of a new media plastic, epoxy polymer, and the fine control she brings to its reactions with a constantly-expanding variety of dyes and pigments. She uses UV-resistant plastic, similar to resin, to supply a common framework for the methods and language that she uses to explore and express interactions of material and color on a microscopic level. Her compositions display brightly colored smears, bumps and blobs atop aluminum and wood panels. She pigments the plastic with powders, oils, acrylics and industrial dyes, built up through many layers of the ultra-glossy plastic. The shapes and colors bleed, blur, shift, and spread becoming remarkable through their eccentric detail. 

Currently working in San Francisco, Klari’s work has been widely internationally exhibited and included in the collections of Stanford University, Google, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, and The Gates Foundation.