Obituary Charles J. Reina, sculptor and art educator, dies at 93

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Long Island sculptor and art educator Charles J. Reina died on March 31 in Setauket. He was 93.

Born Aug. 12, 1929, in Brooklyn, Charles was interested in pursuing a life in art from a young age. He was a student at St. John’s Preparatory School in Astoria before attending Queens College where he earned a bachelor’s degree in art education in 1952. A few months after graduation, Charles married his classmate and fellow art student Cornelia Palermo. The following year, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Signal Corp. during the Korean War. He served for two years. Upon his return, he earned a master’s degree in art from New York University.

An art educator for 36 years, Charles began his teaching career in a junior then a senior high school, but he spent the last 20 years of his teaching career as a professor of art at Nassau Community College.

In addition to teaching, Charles was an active, working sculptor. He is known for his large-scale welded bronze sculptures for public and private sites. Notably, he can be credited with producing the 40-foot bronze sculpture on the facade on the Half Hollow Hills High School and the 27-foot bronze of the exterior of the West Hollow Middle School, both in Dix Hills. He is also represented by four pod-like bronze sculptures for the Schnormeier Public Gardens in Gambier, Ohio, as well as numerous works on sites on Long Island, around the New York area and other parts of the country.

Charles maintained a studio in an old

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carriage house in Lloyd Harbor, where he lived with his family for 40 years, and where he completed all his large-scale sculptures. Primarily abstract, his work in bronze, steel and other materials explored forms, movement, rhythm and flowing line. A 1995 New York Times review noted of his work: “The space around the forms is made to play an active role as the artist bids it to enter and inhabit the solid structure of the work.”

Charles was proud of a 12-foot bronze sculpture based on the DNA double-helix that he was commissioned to create in 1993 to honor Dr. James Watson on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the discovery of DNA. It currently stands in the lobby of the Grace Auditorium at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor.

In the last decade of his life, Charles embarked on a series of works in steel — bent, pierced and painted in bright colors using automobile paint — a playful and colorful foray among his body of work. He exhibited these in the Hamptons and Florida.

In addition to his working life, Charles was an avid sailor. He sailed in Long Island waters for years before bringing his boat to Sanibel, Florida, where he and his wife had a winter residence. He sailed almost every day after retiring from teaching in 1990. He reluctantly sold his boat at age 90.

Charles is survived by Cornelia, his wife of 70 years, and two sons David (Donna), industrial designer, of Brooklyn; and Douglas (Susan), artist, of Stony Brook. He also leaves five grandchildren Elizabeth, Charles, James, Devon and Monel, as well as three greatgrandchildren.

Anyone wishing to honor his memory may make a donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or to Long Island Cares: The Harry Chapin Food Bank.

A private memorial service will be held at a future date to be announced.

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