Painting Demonstration with Renée Caouette

When:
Saturday, May 13, 2017 12:00p -
2:00p

Where:
South Street Gallery
149 South St
Hingham, MA 02043

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Kid Friendly, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Social Good

Event website:
www.southstreetgallery.com

Renée will demonstrate a still life painting from life in oils using the "alla prima" technique. She will explain the importance of value, tone, strong light, and drawing technique within painting. Using a still life set up from life, you can see the process and how to make an organized and compositionally thoughtful painting.


Conceptual Realism by Renée Caouette
May 9-31, 2017
Public will have a chance to meet Renée three times: either at the opening reception on Friday evening, May 12, from 6 to 9pm, or at her art demonstration the next day – on Saturday, May 13 from 12 to 2 pm, or at her Art Talk on Sunday, May 21 from 2 to 4pm.


Renée has lived between Boston and Paris, France for the past five years studying fine art and art history. She has traveled throughout Europe and North America researching artwork ranging from the primitive and ancient to contemporary arts. Aesthetically, Renée’s work is influenced by her classical sensibilities and art historical background that have developed throughout her travels and studies. In these paintings and her continued work, Renée explores ubiquitous themes through the eyes of a millennial such as identity, feminism, death, equality, and addiction, making her work not a quotidian narrative but rather a relevant and relatable story. As a professional female artist, Renée feels the need to express the American (and really Global) zeitgeist, and the expanding Diaspora of the world. Grounded in realism and figurative narratives, her works are highly conceptual; everything is thoughtful with a subtle message. Fascinated with the symbolism of the northern renaissance, the grotesque, mysticism, and contemporary performance arts, Renée has fused these ideas together to create a body of work that is uniquely her own as a representational artist in a contemporary art world. In June 2016 she was awarded a grant by The Ringholz Foundation to fund her latest painting project, and invited to the Bakehouse Art Complex Residency Program during Miami Art Basel. Renée has exhibited throughout the United States and France, including Paris, New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, among others. She was invited to join the Copley Society of Boston and the Salmagundi Club of NYC last year. Most recently, the muralist, Kent Twitchell, awarded her the “Patron Award” at the Brand Art Center’s 43rd annual juried exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. He commented that her work shows “devotion to the picture plane; she is not trying to jump on anyone’s bandwagon” and “sincerity”, making her work valuable and unique in the art world.

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