Tuesday 22 November 2011

Manic Fabrications recent assemblages, collages, paintings, and prints



The push me -pull me of the sexes, the Male and Female in all of us. The love we have for our spouses, our muses, our lovers and friends. I try and utilize items found and kept from the road, or dumpsters, from family and friends, or from the sweepings of a studio. My larder is full of it and so my work needs to be made; to empty the space up and to create work based on the opportunity of what lies in these scattered shoe boxes.

This new work is inspired from art hanging in my bedroom. These new works are based on two paintings of my own eye and my husband, David’s eye. They were made in 1995, based on drawings made from looking into David Renzetti’s eye and he looking into mine. There are aspects of both large paintings that give me ideas for many  works. This is a sampling of those works. My intention was to use up as much junk in my basement, of my hoard of fabulous detritus so that we would have more space. I am reveling and rejoicing in my union with the love of my life and my love of interesting detritus.  One of the works we worked on together- entitled
 “Manic Fabrications
Directions: arrange me”.
It is s also the title of the show. This is the epitome of all that is me. Manic Fabrications was  partly created from materials cut by my father Donald Lloyd McKinley- a furniture manufacturer and designer, over 15  years ago, as well as items donated by David or found. Each diamond, and rounded handle are from pieces he intended for something.  He would stay up all night creating jigs to cut wood a certain way and then not finish the project- moving on to a new way of cutting wood. There were hundreds of pieces lying dormant and unused for 12-40 years. I am freeing them from their boxes; not as necessarily intended but, with, care, intention and certainty. He was manic in his fabrication s and for the past two months I have been enjoying that Manic nature in myself.

Works included are all made form a two month period -September-October 2009.

 Lauren McKinley Renzetti
Maker of fabrications
October 11, 2009.


DCR: What He Saw I , detritus on canvas board, 13"  x 17" October 2009
$200

DCR What He Saw II, detritus on canvas board, 13" x17"  October 2009
$200




Manic Fabrications, Direction:Arrange Me. Each piece 4” x 8”, wood, copper, acrylic paint, October 2009  
$400 for the set 
Manic Fabrications, Direction:Arrange Me. Each piece 4” x 8”, wood, copper, acrylic paint, October 2009
$400 for the set 


close up of one 
close up of another 


LMR: eye study,  (LMR watercolour2), 8 X8 watercolour, October 2009 $45 unframed
LMR: eye study III, (LMR watercolour eye), 11 x 15, watercolour, October 2009$60 unframed     

LMR: eye study II, (LMR watercolour eye), 11 x 15, watercolour and pastel, October 2009 
$60 unframed


LMR: silkscreen eye, 12 x 19, 4 layer silkscreen, October 2009 $35 unframed $55 framed  
LMR: silkscreen eye, 12 x 19, 4 layer silkscreen, October 2009 $35 unframed $55 framed   


LMR: eye print, 8 x 11, mono print , October 2009. 
$15 unframed $40 framed  
LMR: eye print, 8 x 11, mono print with leaf print , October 2009.$15 unframed $40 framed      
LMR: eye print, 8 x 11, mono print with leaf and sequins, October 2009.
$15 unframed $40 framed  
LMR: eye am, 8x 11, Styrofoam print, stamps, October 2009 
$15 unframed $40 framed  
LMR: My World View, (LMR close up), 14 x 16, acrylic, mixed media on canvas board, October 2009
$150
LMR: Family Reflected (LMR close up 2) 12 x 12, acrylic, mixed media on canvas board, October 2009
$150


DCR: my key, 16 x 20, acrylic on stretched canvas, mixed media, October 2009$350    
DCR: Landscape in Wood (DCR church eye), 18 x 24, acrylic on stretched canvas, mixed media, October 2009
$350




Abstract Ideas & Paint Experiment Series


Scratching knife marks
Sprays of water
Layering of colour
                           Scraping modeling paste  
Paint scraped over
Paint poured
         Gravity settling paint
Evaporating water
Staining the texture
Watching paint dry
Sponging up the excess
Rotate
Paint        
Wait
                                             Rotate
                                             Paint        
Wait                  
Rotate
                                                                                 Paint
                                                                                          Wait


NOW

                                 Where You Are
  Be in this experience
                                    You Are Here
In front of a painting
Rotate  It
          Wait
                                                                                 Ponder


                                                                                 ~Lauren McKinley Renzetti
                                                                                 May 8, 2011 
Palette Knife Painting         = PKS                                  
PKS#1  Sun Swamp  acrylic on board   1 2 x12             2010                          $150  
PKS#2 Ode to my knife: Dawn acrylic on board 12 x16 2010    $150
PKS#3 Fall Swamp acrylic on board  12 x12 2010  $150
PKS# 4 Dark Swamp acrylic on board  12 x16     2010   $200 
Sky scape: escaping land acrylic on board 12 x16  2010  $75  
Defeating the fence of Chaos acrylic on board 16 x 20  2010  $150 

From Forest to Clearing Acrylic on canvas  30 x40 2010  $350

Caged Man in the Moon  Acrylic, cage, paper on canvas 16 x20 2010 $250  

Earth: a long time in the making Acrylic, collage on canvas board  17 x 23 2010 $200