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Tony Renner
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- Hometown:
- Hillsboro, Illinois
- Where I live now:
- St. Louis, Missouri
- About Me:
- I am an over-educated retail wage-slave.
- Website:
- http://tonyrenner.blogspot.com
- I have this other website, too:
- http://www.myspace.com/tonyrenner
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- Sexual Orientation
- Straight
- TV shows I watch:
- no.
- Movies I like:
- none.
- Music I listen to:
- blech.
- Ever watch Lo-Fi Saint Louis or Lo-Fi Sessions? If not what are you waiting for? Do it now! here: http://lofistl.com ... we'll wait, come back when you're done ... OK ... Now that you've seen it, what is your favorite episode? (BTW this network is for fans of Lo-Fi Saint Louis thats why we ask--don't worry if you aren't a fan, there is still time to become one!)
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November 19, 2009 at 8pm to November 20, 2009 at 1am
Holiday Open House and Art & Craft sale at Contemporary Art Museum ST. Louis December 10, 2009
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Holiday Open House and Art & Craft sale at Contemporary Art Museum ST. Louis December 10, 2009
Contemporary ART Museum ST. Louis
3750 Washington
St. Louis, MO 63108
314-535-4660
info@contemporarystl.org
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Salt of the Earth Close to Home at Salt of the Earth
November 6, 2009 from 6pm to 10pm
ST. LOUIS – Salt of the Earth, an importer and retailer of artisan goods from Mexico and Europe is celebrating its tenth anniversary with the introduction of its new concept, called “Close to Home.” This store within a store features the work of l...
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For my first collage, I decided to do a very minimalist collage with only a few elements and very few marks. My first piece was done in like five minutes so I kept poking at it and adding marks. Fortuitously, I spilled my container of India ink on my work surface and, while cleaning in up, decided to use an ink-soaked paper towel to make marks on a blank piece of paper for the basis of another collage. I also soaked the edge of my first collage in the spilled ink.
T. Renner, "Long Nine GL," collage, ink on paper, 9.5" x 13", 2008.
I admit that I spent an inordinate amount of time working on the background for the next collage, adding marks with red watercolor. I just wasn't feeling anything until I went upstairs and looked at the collages in "the Immediate Touch" exhibition. Something then clicked and I rushed back to my collage-in-progress.
I had hoped to find a news-magazine to get some photos from but all that was at hand was a Sotheby's catalog of african folk art. It was cool but I couldn't see how I could use it until I came across the portrait of the guy who had collected it. I feel bad that I was more interested in doing the work than taking notes so I didn't make a note of the collector's name. In an instant, I decided to put a weapon in his hand and to cover the collectors face except for his eyes with a ritual mask. I found a nice object that I could tear up and use to cover the text that appeared on at the bottom of the collector's portrait. Finally, I found the "mug shots" of the Sotheby's staff. It felt wrong to have their names appear so I cross them out with India ink and then decided to further their anonymity by blacking out their eyes.
T. Renner, "Red Sotheby's Faction," collage, ink, and watercolor on paper, 15.25" x 11", 2008.
All of the elements -- the blood red splotches, the weapon, the defaced mug shots, the mask over the collector's face -- add up to one disturbing and threatening piece.
As I was finishing the piece, I realized that it could be read as a statement about the appropriation of African folk art by the western art establishment. The mug shots reminded me of the Baader-Meinhof group of the 1970's, who carried out a series of kidnappings and killings in Germany. As I told the instructor, if I were the members of the Sotheby's staff in my collage I would be very frightened.
Self-grade: A.