Robbie Poore - Artist

The Renaissance Art Gallery is proud to welcome Robbie Poore, Collage artist into the membership of the gallery.

Robbie is an innovative “Green” artist who specializes in 3 dimensional collages. His work is colorful with just the right touch of whimsy. Each piece delights the eyes and begs the viewer to touch!

When asked about his work Robbie said:

“Loose buttons, CD's and broken eye glassesAll glued together to sell to the massesMy old computer, can tabs, and stretched springsThese are a few of my favorite things!”

Robbie’s work is fun and full of action and life. Come in and enjoy this local boy’s work.

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

Art Photography Show Opens

Photography Show – Color Complements

Well, we made the paper, and TV! The opening reception for our 2nd Fine Art Photography show, Color Complements made a big splash!

Both Media were out and admiring of the work displayed, and we got more than the simple 30 second shot on the news. They took the time to show a pan of the room, and all the really great photos on display as well as our guests in the Kumkum Majumdar Exhibition Hall. One of our winners, Linda Clifford was interviewed, as well as another guest and two gallery members, Gary Taylor and Michael Adkins. Michael, being an active photographer, was able to give some insights in his TV interview.

You can see the newspaper coverage here, as well as more photos of the opening.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x575677634/Gallery-exhibition-showcases-local-photographers-work?i=0

It is gratifying to see the reactions to real fine art photography, to know that we really showed them the art in it. All of the submitted photos show great creativity. I think the caliber of the work enter this year far surpasses last years entries, even if the number was down.

Each and every piece showed that the artist really thought about it. These are not simply what they had on hand, but executed and mounted with this challenge in mind. And it was a difficult challenge for photographers, to feature and work with color complements.

But that is what art is all about, problem solving. We take the problem of how to express what we want, consider our medium and then work out our own particular solution.

2nd Annual Fine Art Photography Show

The Show is hung. All the Photos are up, and the judging is done. All that that remains is the opening reception for 2nd Annual Fine Art Photography Exhibition. The reception will be this Sunday, July 11, 2010 at The Renaissance Art Gallery. Awards will be announced at this time along with the awarding of prices. Reception is from 2-4 PM in the Kumkum Majundar exhibition Hall, part of The Renaissance Art Gallery. The room is located on the ground floor of the former Huntington High School building, corner of 8th Street and 9th Avenue. The reception is free and open to the public.

This year’s show focuses on the use of complementary colors in photography. There is a high standard of work, with many innovative and new photography forms. This is the perfect opportunity to see what is happening in fine art photography today. The art in this show will hang until August 1, 2010.

Come in out of the hot sun and enjoy some cool art.

Keep up with gallery news and updates on this show at: http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/ and at twitter: http://twitter.com/WVGallery or simply e-mail us at: gallerywv@yahoo.com

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

Gallery (304) 525-3235
Appointments: (304) 453-3187
gallerywv@yahoo.com
www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance

http://twitter.com/wvgallery
http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/

This week at The Renaissance Art Gallery

Monday morning is Painting Class 10 – 12, with Fern Christian. This is an all media class, but emphasis is on water media. New students are welcome.

Wednesday studio hours are on. Hopefully all students enjoyed a short break and are ready to draw their hearts out.

Fine artworks for the 2nd Fine Art Photography show should be hung. Judging will be Friday July 2.

Ron Haeberle will be sitting the gallery on Friday, while Linda Helgason will hold how the fort on Saturday.

The Renaissance Art Gallery will be closed on Sunday, July 4th for the holiday.

New Week, New activities

This has been a busy week for us at the Renaissance Gallery. Starting Friday, we have been accepting photography work from area artists for the 2nd Annual Fine Art Exhibition. If that was not enough one of our members, Gary Taylor was asked to serve on the jury for the Juneteenth celebration this weekend in Huntington, WV.

Juneteenth is the oldest known national celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It is a chance for many to maintain their connection to their history, to understand more than the simple facts of it. It helps people understand the personal side to what they read in history books

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/life/x1666008339/Singer-Quan-Howell-to-highlight-Juneteenth-Celebration

Gary was excited to participate in this, and to connect with any young area artists. Gary was scheduled to sit the gallery on Saturday, but Linda Helgason offered to handle this, and log-in artwork. She was also on hand to interact with people visiting the current show “Barely There”. People always enjoy talking to the actual artist when they come to view any show.

While everyone is working hard to get ready for the Photography show, artist Susan Tschantz is off on a “painting” vacation in Boone, NC. As some of you will recognize, Boone is the home of Cheap Joe’s art supply. Susan is spending a week working with oils and its related mediums. She writes about it on her blog, Starrpoint:

http://starrpoint.blogspot.com/

Because of Susan’s desertion, there will be no studio hours on Wednesday. Fern Christian, is however, still in town and still holding her painting classes on Monday and Saturday. Mike Adkins will be in on Tuesday to work with his Photography students, and is planning to hold a workshop June 26 on Hot shoe lighting for digital photography. Interested people should contact Mike as soon as possible.

Lillianne Bowersock is retired, now she will find out how really busy she and hubby, Bruce can be! While Bruce’s figure drawing class is not on hiatus, those who enjoy this experience should make sure they are on the contact list for the resumption of classes in September.

All should be back to order Next week.

Mission Statement

Our Mission is to promote art and art education in the community and among its members. To encourage and promote a public interest and understanding of art; to create and develop a closer relationship between art and the community and further the education and artistic development of its members.

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.