Artist: Richard Reiner
Title: The Future is Bright
Year created: 2019
Medium: Original Oil and Acrylic Painting on Canvas, with brushes
Edition: Original Unique Artwork
Height (inches): 37
Width (inches): 37
Depth (inches): 2
Signed twice by the artist
Signed Area: front & back
This piece is framed.
Description of piece:
Richard Reiner began with a perfectly square canvas, measuring 36” in height x 36” width, to create this vibrant, energizing artwork. Owing its dynamism to its bright, richly-hued color palette and spirited composition, this dramatically-sized work on canvas is a classic showpiece, reflecting the energy of Reiner’s native Los Angeles. The Future is Bright was created by Reiner in 2019, using layered oil and acrylic paints to bring his signature dimensionality and rich textural elements to the work.
The Future is Bright was prominently featured in the Spring 2020 season finale of NBC’s This Is Us, which had as a main story plot an art gallery showing an exhibition of Richard Reiner’s paintings. This painting— The Future is Bright— was hung prominently in the set’s art gallery.
Photos of Reiner’s exhibition from the set of This Is Us are viewable in the images for this auction item.
The Future is Bright is hand-signed twice by the artist: on the front, lower right; and on the reverse, where it is beneath the frame’s paper backing material.
In its custom white wood floating frame, the work measures 37” in height x 37” width x 2” depth.
Richard Reiner will personalize the artwork for the winning bidder, adding your favorite quote, line of poetry, song lyric, or other personal inscription along the wide surface of the white floating frame for visibility when hung for display.
Artist bio:
Richard Reiner's landscape and abstract paintings are equally masterful: visually moving and often tempestuous, his landscapes reflect his love of the outdoors and nature, and capture both the serenity and power of nature; his abstracts capture that essence, and are emotive of the same power of nature, utilizing color and pattern to express strong feeling and movement.
With Hollywood in his veins, it’s no surprise that Richard’s art has made it to the small screen, appearing on the last seven seasons of the hit CBS show The Mentalist, on the NBC show The Player, several seasons of Showtime's The Affair, and most recently on the last season of This is Us. He credits his family with his exposure to the arts from an early age. After studying and pursuing acting (inspired by his uncle, Carl Reiner), Richard Reiner followed a career as a Hollywood talent agent for 25 years. A dramatic artistic shift led him back to his first great artistic interest: fine art painting.
Studying at an impressive list of schools, Richard Reiner names as some of his influences John Singer Sargent, Richard Schmid, William Turner, Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper, and the Bay Figurative Artists. With galleries in Hawaii and the Hamptons, his credits include 20 exhibitions since he began showing his work in 2008. Richard Reiner's work is held in significant corporate and private collections including those of Carl Reiner, Rob & Michele Reiner, Tim Allen, Jane Goodall, Dan Fogelman, and numerous other Hollywood personages.