Welcome, Raine

Raine Klover is the newest artist to join The Renaissance Art Gallery co-operative. She is an accomplished photographer and encaustic painter, combining two mediums in a really interesting way.

An itinerant photographer and artist, Raine is inspired by both the natural and man-made worlds. In the past decade she has lived in Seattle, Dallas, New Orleans, Dayton, OH, Albuquerque and currently resides in Huntington, WV. These diverse locales have all added layers upon layers of unique cultural flavors to her worldview. Her work is not about capturing a moment – but about capturing emotions and creating visual allegories. She is drawn to the darker side of life and loves things that simultaneously break her heart with their emotional context and lift her up with their unmistakable beauty.

In addition to hanging pictures at The Renaissance Art Gallery, Raine will also be teaching. Leading workshops in encaustic painting for adults and a combined workshop in jewelry making, open to children and adults.
Her work can be viewed at the gallery during normal gallery hours and on her website: http://www.raineworks.com/

The Renaissance Art Gallery
900 8th Street, Suite #20
Huntington, WV 25701

Gallery (304) 525-3235
Appointments: (304) 453-3187
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Gallery hours are:

Friday & Saturday 12-4 pm, Sunday 1-4 pm
Studio hours Monday 10-Noon, Wednesday 1:00-7:30 pm and Saturday 10-Noon

Artist Co-op Gallery

The Renaissance Gallery offers a venue for working regional artists to show develop as working artists by interacting with their peers and the community at large.
The gallery differs from the Huntington museum of art in its focus on regional living artists. While the museum is supportive of regional artists and offers educational opportunities to the community, its focus is largely archival. Maintaining a growing collection of important art, and brings national shows to the area. The Renaissance Gallery can focus its efforts on developing the local artistic community, offering a physical place to display work not just of its members, but also of other local artists. Giving them the opportunities needed to grow their talent.
We want to offer an active studio experience. The museum does offer studio space, it is as a landlord, an authority figure, at one step removed. Individual artists are like the orphan Oliver "please sir, can I have more!"
The Renaissance gallery is more artist-directed. Offering an on-going experience, that tri-state does not offer. Here, the artists must be interactive with each other and the community at large. We can offer smaller, more mentor driven classes.
With solid funding we can offer more opportunities for regional artists to stretch themselves and expand their working knowledge of art and media. It is the perfect setting for the self-taught and folk artists to get hand-on experience.
As the name implies, the Renaissance Gallery can be a cultural revival, home to a period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity, a regional Renaissance.

New Year, New Art

The start of the new year is leaving everyone tired! After the miniature show, it seems it is hard to get going again.

January and February will be devoted to new artists and new works. The Exhibition hall will focus on the new members of the Gallery, and be supported by new works of the regular members, things we have not displayed before.

Ron Haeberle has a large amount of new watercolors, some urban, but most featuring the back woods around this part of West Virginia.

Spring Theme

Spring may be when a young man’s fancy turns to, well, you know, but the artists of the Renaissance Gallery turns to thoughts of spring painting challenge. This year’s Spring Fine Arts Exhibition will be all about color, and how well you can use it in the composition and presentation of your art. "Color and its Complement", is the theme, challenge and title of this May’s show. The artist will take one color as the primary element of composition and work with its complement to bring forth his/her ideas.

Now the real work begins. First up is to get the prospectus out!

December 20, 2009.

Who we are

Welcome to the Renaissance Art Gallery
A Unique Artist-run Fine Arts Co-Operative Gallery and School.

Located in a former high school building, this is the only dedicated Fine Arts Gallery in Huntington, and is home to the most unique collection of original art in the area


The Renaissance Gallery offers regularly changing exhibits of members' work.


It frequently features exhibitions of guest artists


The Gallery regularly hosts public receptions, introducing new art and artists to a larger art-loving public.


Come in and see us today!