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Between Form and Feeling
Renée Rey, Terre Rybovich, and Heather Couch
Armory Art Center: Montgomery Hall
September 2 – October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: September 18, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Exhibiting together for a second time, three Florida-based artists—Heather Couch, Renée Rey, and Terre Rybovich—explore the instinctive pull of body, material, and myth. In Between Form and Feeling, they dive deeper into their shared interest in intuition, transformation, and the unseen forces that shape us.
Through tactile sculpture, ethereal painting, and embodied drawing, the artists ask: What emerges when you surrender to process, trust your materials, and follow what can’t be explained?
Heather Couch (West Palm Beach, FL) brings a fearless material sensibility to sculpture, fusing ceramics, wool, and wood in forms that teeter between the precarious and the fragile. Guided by process, play, and touch, her vessels and installations often appear delicately off-balance yet grounded in care. The raw texture of sheep’s wool softens fired clay with the imprint of the artist's fingers, creating a dynamic contrast that evokes vulnerability, resilience, and the invisible structures that hold us up.
Renée Rey (Delray Beach, FL) conjures ethereal terrains that blur the boundary between inner and outer worlds. In her large-and intimate scaled paintings, Rey invites viewers into a world where absence speaks as loudly as presence, where what you see is as powerful as what you don’t see. Her work explores the entanglement of nature, spirituality, technology, and the sublime—forces that shape and unshapen the world around us. Using layered materials like oil, tape, and branches, Rey builds painterly sites of collision and coalescence. Recent global events have deepened her inquiry into what it means to build worlds when we are disconnected.
Terre Rybovich (Homestead, FL) creates drawings that are part ritual, part revelation. Using her own body in a subtractive process—pressing into charcoal-covered paper and then responding to the imprint—she collaborates with presence itself. The resulting works are instinctive, sensual, and raw, revealing forms that feel both human and ghostlike. Rooted in figure drawing and attuned to her lifelong love of birds, Rybovich’s art hovers between the corporeal and the ephemeral.
Together, their work traces the deep intelligence of touch and form—a return not to the familiar, but to what lives just beneath the surface. Between Form and Feeling is not about repetition—it’s about remembering what the body already knows.
Invited and curated by Jill Brown, director of Armory Art Center
Renée Rey, Terre Rybovich, and Heather Couch
Armory Art Center: Montgomery Hall
September 2 – October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: September 18, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Exhibiting together for a second time, three Florida-based artists—Heather Couch, Renée Rey, and Terre Rybovich—explore the instinctive pull of body, material, and myth. In Between Form and Feeling, they dive deeper into their shared interest in intuition, transformation, and the unseen forces that shape us.
Through tactile sculpture, ethereal painting, and embodied drawing, the artists ask: What emerges when you surrender to process, trust your materials, and follow what can’t be explained?
Heather Couch (West Palm Beach, FL) brings a fearless material sensibility to sculpture, fusing ceramics, wool, and wood in forms that teeter between the precarious and the fragile. Guided by process, play, and touch, her vessels and installations often appear delicately off-balance yet grounded in care. The raw texture of sheep’s wool softens fired clay with the imprint of the artist's fingers, creating a dynamic contrast that evokes vulnerability, resilience, and the invisible structures that hold us up.
Renée Rey (Delray Beach, FL) conjures ethereal terrains that blur the boundary between inner and outer worlds. In her large-and intimate scaled paintings, Rey invites viewers into a world where absence speaks as loudly as presence, where what you see is as powerful as what you don’t see. Her work explores the entanglement of nature, spirituality, technology, and the sublime—forces that shape and unshapen the world around us. Using layered materials like oil, tape, and branches, Rey builds painterly sites of collision and coalescence. Recent global events have deepened her inquiry into what it means to build worlds when we are disconnected.
Terre Rybovich (Homestead, FL) creates drawings that are part ritual, part revelation. Using her own body in a subtractive process—pressing into charcoal-covered paper and then responding to the imprint—she collaborates with presence itself. The resulting works are instinctive, sensual, and raw, revealing forms that feel both human and ghostlike. Rooted in figure drawing and attuned to her lifelong love of birds, Rybovich’s art hovers between the corporeal and the ephemeral.
Together, their work traces the deep intelligence of touch and form—a return not to the familiar, but to what lives just beneath the surface. Between Form and Feeling is not about repetition—it’s about remembering what the body already knows.
Invited and curated by Jill Brown, director of Armory Art Center
