3520 Bloomfield Rd.
Sebastopol, CA 95472, U.S.A.

Phone: 415-269-3462
URL: http://Renes-Sculpture.com

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Statement 

Stone carving is the culmination of the passions of a lifetime. As a youth I always collected rocks. In fact, to me, all rocks were beautiful; the brown ones, the shiny ones, the rough ones…I collected many boxes of them. To this day I still have the rock specimens and books given to me by a fellow rock hound friend of my parents. Through my life everything I have gravitated to has been related to form in three dimensions; dancing, costume design, product development and design, art classes, masks, and now sculpture. The distillation of these elements came surprisingly through a class offering. I thought it would be fun as well as great therapy (hitting a rock with a hammer!). Once I started I never stopped.

Education
 
2005          Mold Making, Lou Quaintance
2003          Pietrasanta, Italy, Carving Study- Mirio Viviani and Livio
                   Del Bianco with Lynn Streeters Workshop
2001-03    Sculpture-Stone Carving, Berkeley, Pat Bengtson-Jones
2001          Ceramics, San Francisco City College, with Janet Lohr        
2000-01    Sculpture-Stone Carving, San Francisco, Harriet Moore
1999          Drawing, San Francisco City College, Linda Hope
1998          Basic Design, UC Berkeley, Richard Kamler      
1998          Collage, San Francisco City College                             
1997          Mask Making , SF City College, Susan LaCroix           
1987          MSBA, Marketing, San Francisco State University  
1985          BS, Art/Humanities, Portland State University
 
Exhibitions
 
2008           Art People-San Francisco, CA
                   Sebastopol Center for the Arts Show, Sebastopol, CA

2007-08     Sebastopol Center for the Arts Show, Sebastopol, CA

2006           Metropolitan Club Art Show - San Francisco, CA
                   ArtSpan at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
                   Shoppe Unusual - San Francisco, CA  

2005           Japan Center Monument with Lou Quaintance,
                   San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
                   Shoppe Unusual - San Francisco, CA  
 
2004          San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
                  Art People - 50 Post Street San Francisco, CA
                  525 Market Street, Bank Lobby, San Francisco, CA
                  PRSG Summer Show, Juried by Kenneth Baker,            
                    San Francisco, CA
                  Metropolitan Club Art Show - San Francisco, CA
                  Art People-50 Post Street San Francisco, CA
                  PRSG Winter Show, Juried by John Toki

2003          ArtSpan at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco,       
                  San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
                  Patina Atelier, San Francisco, CA

2002          ArtSpan at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                  San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA