


Insoluble - Reem Rahim
DESCRIPTION
Oil on paper
9 x 12 in
2025
Reem's work straddles the line between chaos and harmony with themes that center around identity/politics, injustice, paradox and loss. She finds her way into her subject matter by drawing on memory, current news events and a call and response with her materials – a playful and often visceral experimentation into abstraction where expressive color co-mingles with form, composition and light to yield revelatory resolution and restitution; and a goal of balancing beauty, dissonance and hope.
BIO
Reem Rahim is an Iraqi-American artist and entrepreneur living and working in northern California. After receiving her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, she pursued her art studies at Instituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy. Reem received her MFA from John F. Kennedy’s department of Arts & Consciousness Studies. She co-founded a now global tea brand, Numi Organic Tea, in 1999 and her artwork was featured on the company’s original packaging.
DESCRIPTION
Oil on paper
9 x 12 in
2025
Reem's work straddles the line between chaos and harmony with themes that center around identity/politics, injustice, paradox and loss. She finds her way into her subject matter by drawing on memory, current news events and a call and response with her materials – a playful and often visceral experimentation into abstraction where expressive color co-mingles with form, composition and light to yield revelatory resolution and restitution; and a goal of balancing beauty, dissonance and hope.
BIO
Reem Rahim is an Iraqi-American artist and entrepreneur living and working in northern California. After receiving her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, she pursued her art studies at Instituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy. Reem received her MFA from John F. Kennedy’s department of Arts & Consciousness Studies. She co-founded a now global tea brand, Numi Organic Tea, in 1999 and her artwork was featured on the company’s original packaging.