RENACE GALLERY
Painted Furniture
Collage Table
Antique oval society table with one drawer, painted in acrylic and latex in apricot with brick and coral joints, zebra design on sides + true green/magenta grid at corners. Top features red-themed collage under polyurethane.
Little Bee Chair
Wooden doll's chair, approx.
8"H x 4"W x 4"D
painted in sky blue, true green, violet and yellow-gold acrylic. Seat features black-eyed susan. Top ladder features abstract bee. Bottom ladder features multicolor triangle detail.
Wild Rose Bookshelf
Small pine bookshelf painted in latex and acrylic in sky blue, coral and cream, features abstract thorny stem traversing side and top, with large, open white rose.
Ojo Chair
Teacher's chair painted in acrylic and latex in gray-violet, cobalt, black, and teal features large open eye on back panel, with gradation of muted teal on back ribs. (Cushion made of antique Guatemalan huipil.)
Sacred Heart Chair
Teacher's chair painted in acrylic and latex in slate blue, sky blue, true green, coral, violet, and brick. Seat
features large sacred heart on brick background.
Virgen del Eucalipto
Antique built-in wood cabinet with hammered copper hinges and handles, painted in acrylic. (Right) La Virgen de Guadalupe floats in a eucalyptus tree with background of night sky as God's eye looks down; (Left) Barn owl with green aura perches on branch of same tree. Border of faded violet. Frame stained in acrylic cherry. Courtesy of Saranoh Collection, 2002.
Painted objects
Antigua Steel Drum
Steel drum features La Virgen de Guadalupe on prickly pear background; Cara the cat; fingernail moon; antique Bolivian textile detail; colibri sipping from cactus flower; red hand with bone hand overlay; green hand with violet dream hand overlay. Cara touches green hand with her paw. From the collection of
Lois Klein, 2001.
The red right hand with bone hand overlay is the "active" hand, empowered to carry out acts in the physical realm. The green/violet left hand with dream hand overlay is the "intuitive" hand, inspired to acts of grace and healing.
El colibri tiene sed
Toma del nopal
Latidos de un corazon
espinoso