The Happiness You Deserve: A site specific installation at Adams Square Mini Park

Renae Barnard has been selected by the Glendale Arts and Culture Commissions to display a temporary, site specific installation in the historic Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station. This work will be on view to the public daily beginning August 24 until September 30, 2021.

The Happiness You Deserve is a temporary, fiber-based installation considering the unique location of this historic structure: a 1936 Streamline Moderne Gas Station that exists in a small and unexpectedly green, nature-abundant park within the city. Renae is known for her fiber-based work using upcycled and found materials to explore the network of interactions between environment, perception, and well-being. For this project, she is considering the ways in which the sculpture might engage with the space, contemplating illumination in the evening hours to draw continuous attention to the nature rich site. Through the process of creating the work, Renae will be working through ideas surrounding the connection of well-being and nature.

Salvia Blooming at Adams Square Mini Park in May 2021. Photo by Renae Barnard.

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.

About the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission and Adams Square Mini Park Project

The mission of Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale. The Adams Square Mini Park project was completed by the City of Glendale to provide a green space in the middle of the business district for the densely populated Adams Hill neighborhood and to incorporate the historic 1936 Streamline Moderne Gas Station. The gas station is listed on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources.

Special Dinner Event: Textile Slam!

I'm excited to share with you a special evening event of artist lead conversations, cocktails, and dinner at the historic Helms Bakery District hosted by Textile Arts Los Angeles.

Join us on Tuesday, October 29th, from 6:30 - 9pm for Textile Slam! a community conversation featuring presentations by artists, designers, architects and educators to talk about their work, ideas that interest them, or projects they are exploring.

I will be discussing the synergetic relationship of textile waste and fine art practice alongside fiber artists Aneesa Shami and Chuck Hohng. Together we will explore the many ways in which artists and designers can work together to create a more sustainable future.
I hope to see you there!

Tuesday, October 29th

6:30 - 9:00pm

HELMS DESIGN CENTER

8745 W Washington Blvd

Culver City, CA 90230

Mindful and Meaningful: Exploring the Synergetic Relationship of Textile Waste and Fine Art Practice

Artists and Designers can work together to create a more sustainable future. Three Los Angeles based artists share their diverse practices and individual experiences, creating responsible objects that honor the past and endure in the future.

Chuck Hohng is a Korean American artist, born in Long Beach California. Chuck spent fourteen years of his early life in his family's native South Korea. He received his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Art Center College of Design. His early childhood exposure to Catholic practice and a bicultural household furthered interests in vanitas, identities, symbols, and rituals. Chuck makes a range of fiber artworks from teddy bears to haute couture hanbok. Exploring salvaged textiles connections to love and loss, Chuck's artworks give a physical body to intellectual and emotional experiences. He believes we can always grow out of the mud, lift ourselves above the murky water and bloom. www.chuckhohng.com

Aneesa Shami received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in both Fiber and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Aneesa's work speaks to a broader understanding that we are all fundamentally human. She tries to utilize universal themes that are inclusive, referencing the sublime, and an otherworldly sense of the human conscious and subconscious. A love for repetitive mark-making drives her practice. Multiple strands of yarn, strips of felt, and even pen strokes build depth and density in each piece. Layers of material and process combine to lend the impression that there is more than what the eye sees. She recently completed a residency at the Helms Design Center, is currently researching textile and fiber history and is completing large sculptural pieces in her current body of work, Syndication. www.aneesashami.com

Renae Barnard is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in exploring the network of interactions between environment, perception, and well-being. Using found materials and waste from the furniture manufacturing industry, Barnard received her Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University and her BA from California State University, Los Angeles. Barnard 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. www.renaebarnard.com