Flock
Considering the world without preconceived notions

work by artist Mari Renwick
Dizzys, 511 9th Street, Brooklyn
Sunday, May 6 – Sunday, August 5, 2012

EVENT:: Meet the Artist
Dizzys, Sunday, May 20th at 7:00pm

The waxy embrace of the subjects in Mari Renwick’s art inspires the viewer to want the same embrace, the same unconditional love that the subjects of her paintings were fortunate enough to find. This is what shines through in the show “Flock”, Ms. Renwick’s series of Encaustic paintings.

Mari Renwick hearts the ordinary. She hearts it so much and expresses it in such clever ways that the viewer is immediately drawn to the physicality of the work, no matter what they thought of the subject. Because Mari sees beauty where others do not her art elevates her subjects. Mother nature’s most ordinary work is considered lovingly, warts and all, and wrapped around flesh like layers of wax to humanize by transforming them to the familiar and accepted.

The work in this show encourages me to consider the world without preconceived notions. I suspect that if you are standing in front of her work right now that you are feeling this too.

*Encaustic painting is a technique whereby pigmented wax is heated, applied to a ground, and reheated to fuse it to the underlying layer.

Bio
Mari Renwick is an artist/illustrator with a studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn and upstate New York. She has been working almost exclusively in encaustic* for the past 15 years. Her paintings focus on the often-unnoticed objects that surround us: seed pods, husks, and dried meadow flowers from the field around her studio in the Catskills and the neighborhood pigeons of Brooklyn.