Tricksters and Transformations: Textile Arts Los Angeles Exhibition

“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?

  —-Textile Arts Los Angeles

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.

Fiber-based Artwork: Connections Between Environment, Perception, and Well-being.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE HAPPINESS YOU DESERVE Art Installation at Glendale’s Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station

GLENDALE, CA – Artist Renae Barnard’s installation, The Happiness You Deserve, will be on display at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station from August 23 – October 1, 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.

The artist harvested bamboo poles from her garden to use as the structural support of her current work.

Through the process of creating the work, Renae will be working through ideas surrounding the connection of well-being and nature. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education.

For more information about the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission see the website: https://www.glendaleartsandculture.org/

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About Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department (GLAC) includes six neighborhood libraries as well as the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue housed in the historic 1904 mansion of Glendale pioneer Leslie C. Brand, and the Central Library, a 93,000 square foot center for individuals and groups to convene, collaborate and create. Now on the web at www.eGlendaleLAC.org, GLAC also serves as the chief liaison to the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission which works to continually transform Glendale into an ever-evolving arts and culture destination. For more information contact Library, Arts & Culture at 818-548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@glendaleca.gov.

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About the City of Glendale & its Arts and Culture Commission Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of more than 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks, and easy access to a municipal airport. It is home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking. Its Arts and Culture Commission administers a developer-funded program which is working to transform Glendale into an arts and culture destination for the Southern California region. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education. For more information about the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission see the website: https://www.glendaleartsandculture.org/ @myglendaleLAC #myglendaleLAC www.eGlendaleLAC.org

Photos by Renae Barnard

Media Contact: Jennifer Fukutomi-Jones, Principal Arts & Culture Administrator Glendale Library, Arts & Culture 222 E. Harvard St. Glendale, CA 91205

Email: jfjones@glendaleca.gov

Office: 818-937-7808

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.

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

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

Join us on Wednesday, January 29th, from 7:00 - 9:30pm for Mindful and Meaningful a panel discussion featuring presentations by fiber artists whose works utilize recycled or repurposed materials.

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.

Aneesa Shami

Chuck Hohng

Renae Barnard

Wednesday, January 29th

7:00 - 9:30pm

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

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

Love > Shelter: S.C.R.A.P. Gallery's Art of the Shack + Smithsonian Museum Day

There’s No Place Like Home

So said Dorothy Gale, famously, in The Wizard of Oz. Nothing could be truer.

No matter the address, from mansion to humble dwelling - urban to rural, it’s more about individuality, determination and soul. The Art of the Shack, explores and celebrates the concept of home and is inspired by the work of American artist Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015) who was influenced by the sharecropper shacks she experienced in the Deep South and the do-it-yourself builders and architects around the globe.

Opening on Smithsonian Museum Day and developed by the S.C.R.A.P. Gallery and the Coachella Valley Art Center, The Art of the Shack showcases work incorporating reused and recycled materials.

Love > Shelter. 14”W x 16”L x 8”D. Found Alderwood scrap, wire hangers, yarn, water based paint, magnesium sulfate (2019).

Renae Barnard’s sculpture, Love > Shelter will be on view in The Art of the Shack exhibition at S.C.R.A.P. Gallery. This work was inspired by the Bowerbird’s use of construction and ornamentation as courtship and considers the ways in which beauty, presentation, and perception influence romance, opportunity, and acceptance. Recycled and found materials such as Alderwood scrap, wire hangers, and yarn are used to create the structural form. A combination of water-based paint and magnesium sulfate creates the colorful crystalline covered surface texture.

A detailed look at the crystalline textured surfaces in Love > Shelter.

The S.C.R.A.P. Gallery is an innovative program that addresses two of today’s most urgent issues – the environment and the education of our youth. Conservation and reuse through hands-on exploration with discarded materials is promoted at the S.C.R.A.P. Gallery. Arts and science workshops help students understand complex environmental issues. Materials donated by local businesses and manufacturers are available for reuse by teachers, artists and community programs.

PRNewswire: Renae Barnard Open Studio - May 27th, 2018

LOS ANGELES, May 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Fine artist Renae Barnard opens the doors to her private studio location in Los Angeles for an exclusive showcase Sunday, May 27th from 12 - 3pm. Invitees will be the first to preview recently completed works by the artist.

Mauveine State. 13”W x 26”L x 4”D. Paper, Dye.

Recently featured by The Woven Tale Press, Selvedge Magazine and Art Blitz Los Angeles, Renae Barnard's studio practice includes sculpture, painting and textile artworks. Her latest works incorporate recycled materials from the furniture manufacturing industry to create sculptural foundations for painting. The organic formations and layered textures reference natural earthen elements and minerals. A gem-like color palette of low-VOC paints was specially provided by Dunn-Edwards in support of this eco-conscious project.

Renae Barnard, Untitled 2018.

Indulging in the pleasure and tactility of making, these folded, twisted, and sewn objects are both destroyed by and reinforced with the repetitive gestures by which they are made. "Many of my sculptures are worked within inches of collapse and reflect my attraction to the imperfect and the aged," says Barnard. The time consuming and ritualistic processes of braiding, weaving, stitching and hand-dying textiles highlights the delicacy and transience of the material. 'Why are attributes like softness and delicacy deemed "feminine"? And why are such qualities considered indicators of weakness?' These are just a few of the questions surrounding Barnard's artwork.

Creating a material language to explore these nuanced precepts, Barnard combines her hand-made craft technique with elements of playful divergence and social commentary. "I allow myself the sensitivity to make work that reveals both wounds and strengths, wrangling material out of an emotional response to feelings of tension. And so, my reason for making art is so that they might speak in my place, referencing issues that are uncomfortable and difficult to express in words."

Barnard has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University and 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, the Lincoln Fellowship Award and the Christopher Street West Art & Culture Grant.

Barnard has created site specific, socially engaged works and exhibited at local and international galleries/film festivals including Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Towson University, Drake University, Harriet & Charles Luckman Gallery, SOMArts Gallery, Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery, LGBT Film Festival Boston, Long Beach LGBTQ Film Festival, Tampa International LGBTQ Film Festival, and the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica among others. To learn more about Renae Barnard, please visit: www.renaebarnard.com

The Woven Tale Press Art Spotlight: Renae Barnard

Art Spotlight: Renae Barnard

Cleanse

See Renae Barnard’s work in WTP 

Vol. VI #4

Cleanse

by Renae Barnard

paper and thread

9” x 13” x 6”

Renae Barnard is interested in exploring the network of interactions between perception, time, and the inadequacy of language. Much of her work grapples with what progress means, including changes in our environment, as well as changes in equality for women, LGBTQ people, and people of color. Barnard tries to propagate her own visions of “progress” by enabling others to connect and contribute to a collective commitment of kindness and compassion.

To see more of Renae Barnard's work visit:

www.renaebarnard.com

"Material World" Renae Barnard featured in Selvedge

Material World

April 28, 2018

Guest post by Abby Sin

At times language cannot adequately express the intricacies of our thoughts and desires. Artist 

Renae Barnard

 explore the poetics of materiality through handmade objects and ephemeral installations. Working with a range of fabrics and reclaimed materials such as blankets, jute and hemp rope, medical bed paper, rags, ribbon and lace scrap, Barnard’s compositions make a connection between materiality, perception, and time.

Indulging in the pleasure and tactility of making, these folded, twisted, and sewn objects are both destroyed by and reinforced with the repetitive gestures by which they are made. 'Many of my sculptures are worked within inches of collapse and reflect my attraction to the imperfect and the aged' says Barnard. The time consuming and ritualistic processes of braiding, weaving, stitching and hand-dying textiles highlights the delicacy and transience of the material. 'Why are attributes like softness and delicacy deemed “feminine”? And why are such qualities considered indicators of weakness?' These are just a few of the questions surrounding Barnard’s artwork.

Creating a material language to explore these nuanced precepts, Barnard combines her hand-made craft technique with elements of playful divergence and social commentary. 'I allow myself the sensitivity to make work that reveals both wounds and strengths, wrangling material out of an emotional response to feelings of tension. And so, my reason for making art is so that they might speak in my place, referencing issues that are uncomfortable and difficult to express in words.'

www.renaebarnard.com

Selvedge is a magazine that acknowledges the significance of textiles as a part of everyone’s story.  We are surrounded by cloth from the cradle to the grave and by exploring our universal emotional connection to fibre we share the stories and values that mean the most to us. 

Featuring exhibitions, people, adventures and opinion, the blog is a meeting point for the Selvedge community and an entry point into the world of textiles for those looking for an original and broadening perspective.

Selvedge Magazine, 14 Milton Park Highgate London N6 5QA United Kingdom

“Propagate Progress” by Artist Renae Barnard – Final Installation of Bergamot Station’s NEA Our Town Project

“Propagate Progress” by Artist Renae Barnard – Final Installation of Bergamot Station’s NEA Our Town Project

The City of Santa Monica with support from the NEA Our Town program, will debut a temporary artwork installation by local artist Renae Barnard at Bergamot Station on December 15th, 2016. The artwork is located within People’s Park at Bergamot Station Arts Center, and will be on view daily until January 15th, 2017. People’s Park will not be accessible to the public for the duration of the installation, though the artwork remains visible and activates the park space. This project is the last of a series of six temporary projects funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Santa Monica as part of the City’s Our Town program grant received in 2013.

Propagate Progress is a participatory community-building event that culminated with this sculptural installation. Barnard states that “the project explores and memorializes our community’s diverse visions for society's future progress.” According to Barnard, much of her work grapples with what progress means, including changes in our environment, as well as changes in equality for women, LGBTQs and people of color. This paper sculpture is not intended as a permanent monument.  Rather, it is a “progressive” and, therefore, ephemeral gesture of community and will deteriorate with time and weather.  In the same way “progress” today becomes history tomorrow, this sculpture is about transformation and change.

The NEA Our Town grant, which the City received in 2013, supports temporary public art interventions in and around the Bergamot Station Arts Center in celebration of the arrival of the Expo Line – a new, multimodal transit hub. Previous activities for the program included Amir H. Fallah’s Perfect Strangers Art and Performance Festival and Kate Johnson’s Everywhere in Between, an all-encompassing installation of video and light projections with live dance and music. Both projects were curated by 18th Street Arts Center. Two additional components of the Our Town program were Ed Moses, an installation by John Cerney, P2S, a projection piece by local artist Alia Malley, and most recently Because It Has A Peel, a sculptural installation by Joy Taylor.

Renae Barnard is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Barnard’s work has been shown at Harriet & Charles Luckman Gallery, Annenberg Community Beach House Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, SOMArts Gallery, Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Peggy Phelps Gallery as well as screened at U.S. and international film festivals. Barnard has been the recipient of many awards including but not limited to Outstanding Experimental Film,

Sue Arlen Walker and Harvey M. Parker Memorial Fellowship, Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Artist Fellowship, Ahmanson Annual Fellowship, Christopher Street West Art & Culture Grant, Lincoln Fellowship Award and the Pasadena Arts Council Fiscal Sponsorship.  Barnard has spoken about her work at the Open Engagement Conference at the Queens Museum, NY, The Long Beach LGTBQ Film Festival, Shoshana Wayne Gallery and Los Angeles Municipal Gallery.

ABOUT THE CULTURAL AFFAIRS DIVISION

The Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division brings the City’s art scene to life for residents and visitors each year by supporting engaging and accessible cultural events for all ages throughout the year. Cultural Affairs nurtures local arts organizations, promotes artist involvement in the community, manages the landmark Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and presents and produces innovative programs citywide at the Annenberg Community Beach House, the historic Miles Playhouse, 1450 Ocean and in the city’s parks, enriching Santa Monica’s reputation as an international cultural destination. For more info visit smgov.net/arts.

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Renae Barnard

Propagate Progress

at Bergamot Station, 2016. Photo courtesy of Abby Sin.

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Laura Elizabeth Becker

| Cultural Affairs Supervisor | Cultural Affairs Division

City of Santa Monica |

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Claremont Graduate University's 2015 Open Studios

Join us at Claremont Graduate University's 2015 Open Studios Event. Sunday May 3rd, 2015 from 11am-5pm. Art Studios are located in the CGU Art Department building at 251 E. 10th Street Claremont, CA 91711. For more information visit www.cgu.edu/art or call 909-607-3631.

Open to the Public. Free of charge.

Temporary Shelter: Renae Barnard's MFA Exhibition

Opening Reception April 28th 6-8pm.  

No Innocent Bystanders

Regina Nervosa

Adorable Venom

Not Pretty Enough

Untitled Paintings

Obligatory Kin

Mislaid Restraint

Livery Collar

Renae Barnard is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her work investigates the undeniable relationship between biology and culture as well as the potential and limits of these two forces. Barnard's work has been shown at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, SOMArts Gallery, Harriet & Charles Luckman Gallery, Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery, Grace Albrecht Gallery and in a collection of local and international film festivals.