Artist: . JRenee | Location: Lexington, SC
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Artist: . JRenee | Location: Lexington, SC
Lexington, SC
J’Renee is internationally known for her reverse glass paintings or Eglomise, depicting the life and times in New Orleans, pre and post Katrina. She enjoys painting images and/or scenes depicting images that promote thought on issues of social justice, history, and folklore.
Her glass paintings include tropical Gauguin-inspired figures, surrounded by poignant scenes from the city she loves and pines for -- cemeteries, second lines, iron work, flood wreckage and rescue helicopters. She graduated from Xavier University in 1989 with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Her teacher and mentor was renowned artist and MacArthur Foundation recipient, John Scott.
J’Renee often includes photo clippings to lend unexpectedly realistic touches to her mixed media works. Like many, J’Renee was a Katrina evacuee who was forced to move around the country before settling in Columbia, SC.
She has had solo exhibitions at Ponder Gallery, in Columbia, SC, and McKenna Museum of African American Art in New Orleans. Her paintings have been in group exhibitions in New York City, NY; San Diego, CA; Charleston, SC; Washington, DC; and New Orleans, LA. She was featured in several patient exhibits at the United Nations Mocada Museum CCCADA Art Institutes in New York City and Brooklyn. J’Renee’s work is in the permanent collections of the Southern University of Louisiana in Baton Rouge SUMA Museum, the W.E.B.DuBois Museum in Ghana and the McKenna Museum of African American art.