Cully Renwick

Small Songs

2009-09-01T17:32:00.013-04:00

The Wine Dark Sea, 6x9", 2003

Green Wave, 6x9", 2003

Squall, 6x9", 2003

Dolphin Cloud, 6x9", 2003

Arch, 6x9", 2003

About Tuscany, 6x9". 2003

Spring Grass Fires, 6x9", 2003

Night Sea, 6x11", 2003

Moolit Cloud Bank, 6x11", 2003

Pale Moon on the Levee, 6x11", 2003

Dust Storm, 6x11", 2003

On the Dunes, 6x9", 2003
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High Butte, 6x9", 2003

Wing in Water, 8x11", 2003

Water Bears, 8x11", 2003

Sweet Northern Songs

2009-09-01T16:36:00.020-04:00

This is a collection of pieces that I feel show the cultural influences of growing up in the American Midwest in a first generation Irish and Norwegian family. Several of the paintings were begun in the late sixties when I lived in Toronto. I kept a small studio in Markham Village, and was represented by Gallery Moos on Yorkville Avenue. When my husband and I left for UCLA, I took a roll of unfinished canvases with me, knowing that I'd complete them when life got back to normal. My husband's PhD, three children, and a long, interesting working life in environmental assessment allowed only sporadic attempts at painting, and I didn't really get my chance until the hot Texas summer of 2000. This collection includes those completed canvases, some contemporary work, and a few from the years between.

The Bear and the Girls, x ,1986

Picnic at White Egret Falls, 40x54", 2000

Night Racing, x, 2002

Elk at the Garden Gate, 36x39", 2001

Coming to Town, 40x26" , 2002

Mourning the Kursk, 46x61", 2000

Fjord Wedding, 34x62", 2002

The Journey, 55x32", 2001

A House God, 68x45", 2002

Walking the Highlands, 26x20", 2003

Jungle Ruins, 20x26", 2003

Detail, The Bear and the Girls, 1986

Love at the Top of the World, 62x34", 1996

Cleo and the Cosmos, 41x57" 2001

Covering the News

2009-09-01T16:29:00.017-04:00

During the winter 2004-5 I found myself drawn to newspaper photos. The images spoke of politics at home and in foreign places, of need and rescue, of everyday pleasures and heroic moments, each one so specific we can see ourselves there. I'd never worked from news stories before, but by summer I began to think of that pile of clippings as a spring board to my own work. As I studied each photo I often found it calling for more than one version of the "story", since the act of painting can open resonances in ones thinking, spatially (rearrangement of elements and relationships) and linearly (other ways to speak of the story content). In the end there were more than twenty-four 10x10" oil paintings on wood panels. These are a few of them.

The Patrons, 10x10", 2005

Lone Sentry, 10x10", 2005

Lonely Outpost, 10x10", 2005

On a Winter Day, 10x10", 2005

Rescue Attempt, 10x10", 2005

Together, 10x10", 2005

Boys Need a Home, 10x10, 2005

Songwriter, 10x10", 2005

Rumsfeld and Karzai, 10x10", 2005

The Rowing Team, 10x10", 2005

Trooper in Starbucks, 10x10", 2005

Polar Fundraiser, 10x10" 2005

First Jumper, 10x10", 2005

.Waiting to Vote in Zimbabwe, 10x10", 2005

The Peace Sign, 10x10, 2005

Coffee Trees

2009-09-01T13:07:00.008-04:00

This series was created during the winter of 2009.

I'd like to tell you how this run began. It was a coincidence back in January that a picture formed in my almost empty coffee cup. I snapped a photo because I loved the image I saw there, like winter trees in a morning sky. When I started painting weeks later, I remembered the way the grounds were separated by tiny rivulets of water, and I spent some happy days trying to make oil paint, terp, and stray materials flow in ways that evoked trees, lichens, and winter vegetation. I began to include pieces of mistletoe and other plants in the printing as well as stray studio items. Browns turned to greens as my thoughts turned to spring.

They are all oil paint on Yupo in a spectrum from brush strokes and poured paint to monotypes.

Flow Tree, 13 x 13", 2009

Companions, 13 x 13", 2009

Serengeti, 13x13", 2009

Many Grasses Make a Tree, 13x13" 2009

Flowers from Honey, 13x13", 2009

Lichen Home, 13x13", 2009

Inland Sea Oats, 13x13", 2009

Postcard, 1953 Tour, 13x13", 2009

Postcard, Summer 1947, 13x13" 2009

Ferns in Amber, 13x13" 2009

Amazon, 13x13" 2009

Train, 13x13", 2009

Ancient Bugs, 13x13" 2009

Vermont Art Zine

2009-05-31T14:03:00.006-04:00

New issue of Vermont Art Zine is live.

"Vermont Art Zine provides timely reviews of Vermont exhibitions great and small, publishes essays on a range of matters of interest to our visual arts community, and posts links to art resources, portfolios, and blogs by Vermont artists and others. We hope to broaden the range of venues and artists under general discussion with the goal of fostering greater aesthetic awareness, stronger support for the visual arts, and the creation of a critical community in Vermont, for Vermont."

http://vermontartzine.blogspot.com/

Current Works - Coffee Trees

2009-03-11T22:25:00.003-04:00

Original current works from the series Coffee Trees by Cully Renwick. Available for viewing at Picasa. Prices and information coming soon.

Finland in the Forties

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Almost There, 26x40", 2007

Detail

Farewell, 13x15", 2008

Comrades, 13x15", 2007

Country Horse Race, 13x15", 2008

Red, Blue and Green Dancers, 13x15", 2008
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Waltz under the Trees, 15x13", 2008

2nd Tuesday Group Exhibition

2008-05-06T16:06:00.006-04:00

An exhibition titled 2nd Tuesday, featuring works by nine diverse Vermont artists, will be on view in AVA Gallery and Art Center’s E.N. Wennberg Gallery and Gallery 3 from April 18 through May 24, 2008.

"The 2nd Tuesday exhibition contains both two- and three-dimensional work that has coherence and unity, but also maintains the excitement generated by the strong and diverse styles of each of the artists.

The participating artists are: Cheryl Betz of Charlotte, Alexandra Bottinelli of East Calais, Maggie Neale of Montpelier, Elizabeth Nelson of West Glover, Cully Renwick of Montpelier, Kathy Stark of Craftsbury Common, Janet van Fleet of Cabot, Harriet Wood of Marshfield, and Ann Young of Barton."

For more information, check the AVA Gallery site.

Cully Renwick at Saksala Art Center, 2006

2008-05-06T15:57:00.006-04:00

In 2006, Cully Renwick was an artist-in-residence at the Saksala Art Center in Finland. Learn more about Cully and her time at Saksala at their site.

Installation shot, T.W. Wood Gallery, 2007

2008-03-31T13:55:00.005-04:00

In 2007, Cully Renwick and ceramicist Georgia Landau put on a co-exhibit in the Vermont Artists wing of the T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier, Vermont.