Renegade Red Studio & Art Gallery - Artists
NATHAN BARNES
"Split, rend, dissect, and measure. Analysis. Bind, intertwine, overlap, and reconfigure. Composition.
I am particularly interested in personal heritage, sacred architecture, the (un)natural environment, and uncomfortable aesthetics. The material product of my artistic practice finds cohesion in the manner of its creation. In the studio, I keep an open narrative. I can’t bear to know what I will make. I find deep satisfaction in successfully returning to an idea abandoned or an object discarded. And what I pursue with the greatest intention is an accretion of significance, a corporeal manifestation of the conversation I have with everything I care to deeply perceive."
ANGELA BLISS
"I began my art career in 2008, in Springfield Missouri. These days I hail from the stunningly gorgeous Pacific Northwest and work from my home studio in Trout Lake, Washington, near the base of lovely Mount Adams. I work primarily with acrylic and mixed medium designs on canvas, though I also create in watercolor, graphite, ink, and polymer clay sculpture."
JIM BLAKE
"After sixty years of drawing and painting every day (my drawings done while in the army standing at my bunk in the XVIWII airborne corps in 1970 got me into the Harvard GSD in 1975) I have learned to listen to and act on the advice of my muse(s). Every drawing and painting is an exploration, a journey. If one knows the destination beforehand it is craft, not art. My Harvard architecture theory professor Werner Seligman said to our class, "You cannot not know Cubism." I got on board. Cubism is at the core of my visual language. I use art to explore my passion for bioscience, history, art history, biography, and literature. Art is a tool. A painting or drawing is the trace, the track in the snow, the evidence of a long, glorious journey of discovery of the treasures of nature and human society."
LIZA BRENNER
"Nostalgia- a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
We deal with it in many forms and contemplate it often. The years pass by with people and places forgotten. Our minds tend to mangle and distort memories from our past like trees and overgrowth in the forest; retaking the land once established. These places once held our childhood memories, our ups, downs and everyday life. As an artist, I find it is my mission to preserve some part of these memories, people and places and document them. As this series does look to the past for longing, it also shows how the past shapes the present. These works are my battle against the overgrowth, to recognize these memories as the building blocks of my future path.
I start each piece with a foundation of a memory, a person or place that has had an impact on my life. I then begin the process I like to call “overgrowth” layering nature over these memories…breaking up the space and deconstructing the landscape. Figures and structure move in an out of the background using collage while the natural habitat takes over and the struggle begins. Through this process, I feel fulfilled documenting my past and present."
MARY CHANT
"Living in the Pacific Northwest, where there is so much natural beauty to celebrate, I try to combine what I see with the feelings it evokes - the essence of impressionism. Calling attention to the everyday, like the painting of the prayer flags hanging at my backdoor or the shadow a cloud creates as it travels between the sky and the ground is what brings me joy as a person and as an artist."
DRAKE CUNNINGHAM
"For me, painting brings order to chaos. It solves problems. It is a series of happy accidents that are manipulated into art. It is raw emotion spilled or splattered onto the canvas that is then pushed, pulled, and organized so that others can see what I am thinking and feeling. If the pile is cohesive enough, they will not only see it, but might feel it, too.
The poet in me stops short of telling the whole story, only nudges and points the way, leaving the viewers' hearts and heads to take them on their own journey."
MICHAEL DINNING
A love of history and a sense of place, the joy of family, the intrigue of music and a sense of social awareness all combine and recombine as central elements in my artwork. My creative process is a way for me to give form to the construction of these themes, through the use of artistic layering, targeted lighting and physical depth. I create primarily large scale narrative sculptures and wall pieces, combining painted canvasses with a wide variety of found objects. My goal when creating artwork is to present something that is immediately engaging, consistently compelling, and leaves a lasting impression, and I feel that this mixed media approach gives me the best set of tools to achieve this end. I also feel that painting and sculpture are, along with the creative vision, something to be built, and the joy of that constructive process is as important to me as realizing a coherent, complex and compelling artistic expression.
NANCY EICHENBERGER
Nancy's previous experience in the arts has centered mostly around fiber art and jewelry, but has shifted to chasing and repousse in the last fifteen months. She works in both copper an brass, but prefers copper, as it is more pliable.
Nancy is fascinated with the historical aspects of this art and its cuttent resurgence, and hopes her art sparks an interest in others. Inspiration for her current work comes from vintage illustrations, but as with life, it is an ever changing process.
ERIC FARAMUS
For Eric Faramus, surrealist painter and freelance graphic designer newly local to the Grays Harbor area, art has been a passion since he was a young boy. He recalls always having some type of writing tool in hand, drawing whatever came to his imagination.
"Everyone draws when they are little, and some of them stop. I never stopped."
Faramus’ paintings are rich in color and creativity, leaving the viewer’s imagination to create a story. When it comes to inspiration, he finds it in everything: movies, catalogs, photographs and a combination of many media. In his process, he experiments with several different painting techniques and color schemes, using many different aides to assist him in the process.
Originally from France, Faramus attended college at the Superior School of Graphic Design ESAG Paris, and received his master’s degree in graphic design and illustration. Today, he lives in Grayland with his wife, and has an in-home studio.
JACOBY HINTON
Award winning Artist/Educator, Jacoby Hinton, graduated from College of Charleston with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Studio Art. Growing up Jacoby discovered his romantic fascination with the diverse strengths and capabilities of the human body at an early age. Trained as a swimmer, a martial artist, and a soldier, Hinton has first-hand experience with the grueling training one endures while striving to exceed their limits, as well as the glory of soaring past that which had once been thought impossible.
Hinton’s work often shows us what it can mean to be fully human and fully committed to the moment. Hinton’s crucible of experience has forged an immense amount of discipline that is as present in the dozens of draft sketches that precede a single drop of paint, as they are in each surgical swipe of his palette knife. His use of bold colors and textured palette knife strokes create a sense of expressiveness and movement in each piece.
IVY MOYER
"In a world where there are so many available distractions, so many eye-catching, gripping, and even genuinely entertaining outlets, I find that most of us don't get the chance to see the everyday life around us and and actually enjoy it. A bad photo, a rainy day in a run-down part of town, or a sunset obscured by buildings and power-lines. These are seemingly boring ideas, but we all know and love them, and they are not the scenes that our anscestors saw. They visually represent a generation, in a rapildly evolving world. They will only be here until the next wave of change and we have the opportunity to pay attention to them before they transition again."
NICK NEWTON
Nick is a life-long artist, who has had many diversions: philosophy, mechanics, furniture, brewing and programming, to name a few. But even in all those fields, he found ways to bring art, design, and general creativity into the mix. He has run a few businesses, including ten years in web development, and his recent startup, Renegade Red.
Nick graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, having studied photograpy, etching, illustration & design-- but his primary love was painting and drawing. His work is very much a study; he likes to capture the essense of his subject, whether it's a specific neighborhood or region, or the dynamics of a crowd.
JEFF OLSON
Jeff Olson is a Seattle, Washington based artist with a significant and original body of work spanning more than twenty years. His paintings offer a unique vision of the landscape and the inspirational forces of nature which shape it. The central theme of his work has always lay within the primacy of the brushstroke in the process of painting. It is in essence the evidence of the physical interaction of the artist with the "stuff of this world," - an evidence of life.
NAJIA OMER
Najia recently moved to the Washington area, with a BFA from the reputed Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in her hometown of Karachi, Pakistan. She creates mixed media pieces, layering imagery and techniques to speak about the struggles she faces.
These struggles encompass life in what has been ranked as one of the 'world's most dangerous cities to live in'; and then ultimately the process of leaving it behind. The constant struggle of missing 'home' but yet not wanting to return to it. The struggles of being an immigrant, and the constant division of ones heart, mind and soul.
DOUGLAS ORR
"I am like my mother in many ways. Where she could open the fridge and scan the contents and then put together a meal from seemingly nothing, I learned to do the same thing when it comes to my art. I love to find discarded wood from tables or chairs and cut them up and incorporated them into my art. My inspiration comes from the old works of masters that can be found in the many old churches in Mexico city. Old iconic art pieces from Russia and other parts of the world play into my art.
I am a nut for realism and faces. Both present challenges for me that cause me discomfort so I purposely work in that direction as a way of forced learning. I am a thief when it comes to art. If I see a style today, some of that style will find its way into what I'm painting. My style is a merging of everything I see.
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BARLOW PALMINTERI
Palminteri paints portraits of himself, his friends and family inside his studio employing a lot of trickery in terms of perspective and illusion, with people and paintings reflected and repeated. There are pictures of himself in his studio with the same picture stacked against the wall in the same studio with open windows and doors bringing inside out, lending to his paintings the kinds of illusions we've seen in works by M.C. Escher and Rene Magritte.
AMANDA POMEROY
Amanda Pomeroy is a self-taught artist, a lover of life and beauty, and a connoisseur of all things unconventional. She is currently spending her days as co-owner of Renegade Red.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in Environment and Society at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where she lived for 15 years before returning to her home in Washington state in 2014. Biology and Environmental Science have always been a passion for her, and she hopes to one day incorporate her love of science into art. Two of her paintings hint at this aspiration, featuring bees alongside women, as an intimation of the crisis surrounding bee populations and the direct correlation to humans, both in cause and consequence. She believes, with conviction, that humans are symbiotes of the Earth, and that, individually, we hold no more grandeur than the tiny bee; albeit, just as essential.
TIM ROSSOW
"Art can be many things: social commentary, pure expression of emotion, what lies in the beholder and so on. I am convinced that at its essence, art is a form of entertainment. Philosophers and sociologists provide social commentary. Anyone can grunt and thus offer up pure expressions of emotion. In contrast, a painter produces something that pleases the eye. This pleasure comes about by the arrangement of line, shape, color, value, etc. in interesting and rational ways according to the enduring principles of beauty innate to us all with happy accidents along the way. Good art can be highly abstract according to this definition but ultimately all knowledge is empirical and so the natural world around us is an excellent choice of subject matter and is my typical subject of choice."
MELINDA SANTORA
Melinda's work often consists of ideas that swirl around beauty, nature, love and play. As she puts it, her work is "often messy, sometimes unclear, and nearly always imperfect," but that's what she believes makes her work more realistic, just like life. Inspired by the art of Bonnard and Kees Van Dongen, she uses acrylics and various found objects and natural elements to pair paint and nature. Her aim is to lure the viewer into discovering an object’s beauty through an exchange between themselves and the larger universe around them—whether the soft-red light of a cheek, or the shimmering surface of a leaf—her hope is to draw the observer into seeing what has always existed around them, viewed in a new light.
BINTA THÉRÈSE
Binta is a Portland, Oregon based artist who works primarily with acrylic and watercolor paints. She is inspired by the bright colors and sharp patterns found in nature. She enjoys working and daydreaming in her garden, where various flowers, leaves, shadows, insects, mosses and fungi never fail to remind her of the beauty that can be found in minute detail in the natural world.
RICHARD WOODS
I have always been an artist, since a magical moment that is one of my early memories, of drawing a simple train at the kitchen table, after watching my mom do it. She said, "Now you do it."
At some point after that, my second grade teacher apologized to my parents at a school open house one night. "I can’t get him to do anything but draw…."
My trademark scene is a seascape of a working boat careened on a beach, or aground, as well as harbors, waterfronts scenes and working boats in general. Naturally that repertoire expanded to include Coast Guard boats, ships and aircraft during my military career. In and around and in addition to the stock seascapes, I’ve always done landscapes and mountain scenery. Then liberally sprinkle that with still life, portraiture, wildlife and travel scenes to round out the subjects in my portfolio.
