“Textiles have the universally demonstrated capacity for holding meaning, establishing connections, and creating healing. As we emerge, on many levels, from the darkness into the light of awareness of isolation and injustice we have an opportunity and obligation to examine the status quo. This exhibition will allow the artist to step into the now and make work that opens doors within themselves, thereby acting as a portal to a collective resurgence into a renewed relationship with the world. This awakening inspires transformation.”
Renae Barnard is showing her mixed media work, Love > Shelter.
When: Saturday, September 4, 2021 to Sunday, September 26, 2021.
*Soft Opening Saturday, September 4, 2021 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
Where: Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City, CA, 90232 United States (map)
Detail of Love> Shelter by artist Renae Barnard.
There is a deep potential for the artist to act as trickster, agent of change, or boundary crosser. After the pandemic and the social upheaval of the past eighteen months, the artist has gained renewed agency for creating more enlightened definitions of meaning and new ways of seeing.
The pandemic can be a portal, serving as a provocation to transformation.
We ask:
What kinds of conversations can the artist communicate and express after this moment?
What was the conventional wisdom?
What layers need to be exposed?
What patterns need disrupting or subverted?
What ideas need shedding?
What and how do we heal?
How do you translate this sense of agency and transformation into your own practice?
How can the medium, process and history of textiles serve as a fertile conceptual ground for our work?
Found and recycled materials are the foundation of Renae’s sculptural work.
Renae is delighted to be showing with friends old and new. The featured artists are
Beth Abaravich
Hammad Abid
Berfin Ataman
Renae Barnard
Charlotte bird
Anne M Bray
Carrie Burkle
Debbie Carlson
Molly Cleator
Debra Disman
Doshi
Sally England
Emilyn Eto
Lea Feinstein
Michelle Flores
Dellis Frank
Gail Fraser
Anna Faye Korngute
Diana Fullmer and Nick Kuriyama
Polly Jacobs Giacchina
Karen Gibson Roc
Annette Heully
Lesley Kice Nishigawara
Michael Koch
Dong Kyu Kim
Tina Linville
Carmen Mardonez
Patricia Martin
Victoria May
Michelle Montjoy
Wendy Osher
Antonia Price
Michael Rohde
Connie Rohman
Gwen Samuels
Karen Sikie
Maryrose Smyth
Ruth Souza
Meredith Strauss
Dusty Taylor Guerra
Cameron Taylor Brown
Lydia Tjioe Hall
Tamara Tolkin
Elise Vazelakis
Kay Whitney
Peggy Wiedemann
Susan Zimmerman
Renae Barnard is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Barnard received her Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University and her BA from California State University, Los Angeles. She has recently completed projects in cooperation with the National Immigration Law Center and the City of Santa Monica Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a recipient of the Sue Arlen Walker and Harvey M. Parker Memorial Fellowship, the Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Artist Fellowship, The Ahmanson Annual Fellowship, Lincoln Fellowship Award, and Christopher Street West Art and Culture Grant.