“I’d come to know Bouchard as a painter of luminous abstract oils, their dense surfaces often inspired by nature...” “However, instead of the oil paintings, Bouchard’s studio was strewn with big pieces of thick Arches watercolor paper.

Unmistakable images of Ensor stared out from them in purples, oranges and blues. She embraced the idea of her baby as muse.”

- Arlene Distler, Art Critic

“To know Renee is to understand her need to constantly engage with contemporary critical discourse around race, class, gender, and the intersections therein. She employs the rich vernacular of Abstract Expressionism in her own work, while exploiting its tropes and pitfalls.”

— Suzy Spence

“Renée is an intuitive painter with a magical sense of color, and gestural mark-making. Renée’s path is heroic as she studies, writes, paints, and tends to her child and garden with love and care. She is deeply committed to her painting, to growth, expansion and creating community.”

— Faith Wilding, Womanhouse, Eco-Feminist

2024 • Hyperallergic, 10 Shows to visit in Upstate New York, October 2024
The Painting at Night exhibition at Russell Sage College's Opalka Gallery in collaboration with Collar Works and the Artist/Mother Podcast was spotlighted by Hyperallergic as one of the Top 10 Shows to Visit in Upstate NY in September 2024.

• I Like Your Work Podcast, Studio Visit Artist

2023 • INTERLOCUTOR Magazine “Artist/Mother” Spring, Interview

2021 • Art New England “Unmasked: Artful Responses to the Pandemic” March/April, Review

 2020 • Isele Magazine, Creative Essay: Artist/Mother Quarantine, 2020.

2017 • Makayla-Courtney McGeeney, The Bennington Banner, "Bringing students young and old together through art", January 13 2017, Makayla-Courtney McGeeney Interview

• The Country and Abroad, "WE THE PEOPLE" Exhibit by Artist-in-Residence, Renée Bouchard, at Southern Vermont College Gallery, April/May, Beth Potter, Interview

• The Bennington Banner, "Mindscapes derived from memory With Artist Renee Bouchard opens new exhibition at SVC gallery" January 15, 2017, Telly Halkias, Interview

2016 • Vermont Digger, SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE RENÉE BOUCHARD TO OFFER “ART,
MAKING AND MEANING", December, 2016, Marion Whiteford, Interview

• The Berkshire Eagle, “Artist in Focus/Renée Bouchard: From small town to state house”, July, Telly Halkias, Interview

• The Times Argus, Visual Art Review: The World and Within: Renee Bouchard and Tom Wies”, July, Interview

• Meg Brazill, Seven Days, “Art Review: ‘Salvage,’ Chandler Center for the Arts”, March, Review

2015 • Derek Carson, Bennington Banner, “Local artist leads workshop at Bennington Free Library”, August, Interview

• Hill Country Observer, “A toddler as muse, Bennington artist blends family, creative lives in works that challenge”, July, Telly Halkias, Interview

• Folk Art Messenger "Inside the Outside: Reconsidering Our Views About Art" Tony Gengarelly, Review

2014 • Bennington Banner, “For Bennington artist Bouchard, it's more than lines”, Aug 13, Jack McManus Interview

• Down East Magazine, 60th Anniversary Commemorative Cover, August, 2014

• John Seven, Special to Berkshires Week & Shires of Vermont, “Gallery 51 show brings outside inside”, Feb 27, Interview

2013 • Arlene Distler, Southern Vermont Arts and Living, “The Art/Life Balance: Southern Vermont artists reflect on juggling their creative pursuits and the realities of parenting”, April 3, Review

2011 • Art New England, “Renée Bouchard, Towle Hill Studio, Corinth VT”, July/August, Arlene Distler, Review

2009 • Southern Vermont Arts and Living “Color Sense” Note cover image: “Peripheral Scattering, ‘Scapes’ Recent
Paintings by Renee Bouchard at the Bennington Museum” Fall, Arlene Distler, Interview and cover image

• Vermont Art Zine “WALKABOUT: The Bennington Museum” Janet Van Fleet, Review

• Bennington Banner “Birth, Death have their place in Stark Installation” Ryan, Review