July 23, 2019

Artist Spotlight: Enrico David

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Enrico David (b. 1966, Ancona, Italy) was born into a family of artisans in the dormant Italian countryside. After studying modern languages in Bologna, David made the decision to leave Ancona in 1988 for London at an exciting moment in the city’s new wave scene that was in full-swing. As he settled into his new surroundings, David worked off-beat jobs…

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July 23, 2019

From the Collection: Untitled, 2011

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Within an artist’s large survey exhibition, there is the expectation of a wide variety of stylistic development and perhaps a variance of medium, scale, or evolution in technical ability. However, for an artist as media-variant as Enrico David (Italian, b. Ancona,1966), these observations may be more subtle to anyone not intimately familiar with his practice. For David, variance and transformation…

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July 23, 2019

August: rennie Loans

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A robust lending program ensures rennie collection is shared across the globe with numerous institutions, including Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Jumex, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian and Tate, to name a few. For the month of August you’ll find rennie collection artworks in Washington, D.C.; Venice, Italy; Toronto, ON….

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June 26, 2019

Artist Spotlight: Jordan Casteel

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American figurative painter Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) has focused on depicting the lived experiences of her friends, family, and strangers she meets on the streets of her neighbourhood in Harlem, New York. She is particularly drawn to representing Black men, an interest which stemmed from a culmination of experiences she had during an artist residency in Gloucester, Massachusetts,…

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June 26, 2019

July: rennie Loans

By rennie museum

A robust lending program ensures rennie collection is shared across the globe with numerous institutions, including Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Jumex, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian and Tate, to name a few. For the month of July you’ll find rennie collection artworks in Toronto, ON; Orlando, FL; and Bloomfield…

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May 22, 2019

June: rennie Loans

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A robust lending program ensures rennie collection is shared across the globe with numerous institutions, including Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Jumex, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian and Tate, to name a few. For the month of June you’ll find rennie collection artworks in Denver, CO; Kitchener, ON; Ann Arbor,…

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April 24, 2019

Memories in Collected Objects

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When I visited the south of France, I collected various trinkets to take home: postcards from museums in Toulouse, a silver bracelet with a purple gem that I found in a shop that only sold lavender-themed items, and one pinkish seashell from a beach in Marseillan that, to this day, still has a few grains of the white beach sand…

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April 23, 2019

Featured Artwork: La Grande Jatte (after Georges Seurat)

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Richard Jackson’s La Grande Jatte (after Georges Seurat) (1992-2010) pushes the boundaries of painting production. In this work, Jackson recreates the late 1880s pointillist masterpiece by Georges Seurat by dipping pellets into paint and firing them from a pellet gun directly at the canvas. Jackson first conceived the idea in 1992 and to this day he still considers this work…

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April 23, 2019

Artist Spotlight: Richard Jackson

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Richard Jackson (b. 1939, USA) is a contemporary artist influenced by abstract expressionism and action painting. Jackson studied Engineering at Sacramento State College from 1959 to 1961 where he was first introduced to art as he drew process layouts by hand. He did not finish his intended university studies and instead pursued his fascination with art. By the early 60s,…

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April 16, 2019

May: rennie Loans

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A robust lending program ensures rennie collection is shared across the globe with numerous institutions, including Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Jumex, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian and Tate, to name a few. For the month of May you’ll find rennie collection artworks in Los Angeles and Sacramento, California. Frank…

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