Rene Bien is a fine artist and illustrator. She draws her inspiration from her passion for life's quirky moments. Bien received her B.F.A. from Tufts University and her M.F.A from Tuft’s School of the Museum of Fine Art. On her work, Bien has said, “Much of my work is informed by my love of food and past career as a chef. I want my work to be both a nod to the future and a reference to past art historical movements such as Pop and Surrealism. It is also my intention that the work exist in the realm where pop culture meets personal iconography. My imagery draws inspiration from and attention to the artistic possibilities of the mundane. I embrace fragility, transience, and emotion, and prefer to incorporate or refer to non-precious, commonly available, rejected materials and found objects in my work.”
Rene Bien
Studios
Putnam
Rene Bien worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…