Raphael, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and the others

Are not a style

A Question of Style

A question of style, a question of style, a question of style. Again and again it's a question of style, or so they say

Points to remember

A question of style, dickens dream, high school, environmental posters, um um, oh and collaboration vs straight out apprenticeship, there's more of course but just these notes for now

WHITNEY COUNTERWEIGHT



" If Little Girls Ran The World, Could It Get Any Worse"



" Recognition", Acrylic and paper on canvas, 71" x 55"

Involved in numerous on-going projects, Lisa Renko actively pursues and investigates ideas and directions thay she feels authentically challenge established art lexicons. Innovation, she has observed, isn't always obvious, obscured by labels of "contemporary", alternative", progressive", "outsider". descriptions that imply a departure from the conventional, but applied without vigilant awareness,  result in paradigms that are formulistic and predictable, rarely surprise, let alone engage the viewer. To pursue such investigations, she believes that one must engage confusion and chaos, and acknowledge them as evolutionary agents

And a Sculpture blog

Yes!!

Oh and I found all those "art statements" from prior art existences of mine.Totally unreadable. I tried to remember what the hell I was talking about, and I expected other people to understand them ??  Well the art world requires them, which is so irritating, can't the  work just speak for itself. 

 I feel more free of all that nonsense lately, entered an online show, my work doesn't really translate under that umbrella, what to do??

Context matters

DRAWING BLOG

A new blog for somewhat irreverant  doodles, drawings, notes, insights, in the context of current events -  NEW YORK TIMES

FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION

Installations, my installational work basically evolved out of the ad-lib way I have lead my creative life. Opportunities presented, venues to fill quickly, in the most dynamic way possible. You realize early on, or at least I did, that the successful presentation of any work depended greatly on the setting, and on the audience. I felt I had to adjust to the parameters presented to me. The more I mastered this, the better the result, the more I got into a type of choreography. This being said, I still basically considered myself a painter. I'm sure not a lot of this would have happened had I had viable exhibition opportunities for my paintings early on. I didn't quite realize that I was embarking on a new form, and that that form required a certain type of documentation, only realizing recently that the result of all that would be labeled under the product label of  "photography".

More on this later.