Tricksters and Transformations: Textile Arts Los Angeles Exhibition

“Textiles have the universally demonstrated capacity for holding meaning, establishing connections, and creating healing. As we emerge, on many levels, from the darkness into the light of awareness of isolation and injustice we have an opportunity and obligation to examine the status quo. This exhibition will allow the artist to step into the now and make work that opens doors within themselves, thereby acting as a portal to a collective resurgence into a renewed relationship with the world. This awakening inspires transformation.”

Renae Barnard is showing her mixed media work, Love > Shelter.

When: Saturday, September 4, 2021 to Sunday, September 26, 2021.

*Soft Opening Saturday, September 4, 2021 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Where: Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City, CA, 90232 United States (map)

Detail of Love> Shelter by artist Renae Barnard.

There is a deep potential for the artist to act as trickster, agent of change, or boundary crosser. After the pandemic and the social upheaval of the past eighteen months, the artist has gained renewed agency for creating more enlightened definitions of meaning and new ways of seeing.

The pandemic can be a portal, serving as a provocation to transformation.

We ask:

• What kinds of conversations can the artist communicate and express after this moment?

• What was the conventional wisdom?

• What layers need to be exposed?

• What patterns need disrupting or subverted?

• What ideas need shedding?

• What and how do we heal?

• How do you translate this sense of agency and transformation into your own practice?

• How can the medium, process and history of textiles serve as a fertile conceptual ground for our work?

  —-Textile Arts Los Angeles

Found and recycled materials are the foundation of Renae’s sculptural work.

Renae is delighted to be showing with friends old and new. The featured artists are

Beth Abaravich

Hammad Abid

Berfin Ataman

Renae Barnard

Charlotte bird

Anne M Bray

Carrie Burkle

Debbie Carlson

Molly Cleator

Debra Disman

Doshi

Sally England

Emilyn Eto

Lea Feinstein

Michelle Flores

Dellis Frank

Gail Fraser

Anna Faye Korngute

Diana Fullmer and Nick Kuriyama

Polly Jacobs Giacchina

Karen Gibson Roc

Annette Heully

Lesley Kice Nishigawara

Michael Koch

Dong Kyu Kim

Tina Linville

Carmen Mardonez

Patricia Martin

Victoria May

Michelle Montjoy

Wendy Osher

Antonia Price

Michael Rohde

Connie Rohman

Gwen Samuels

Karen Sikie

Maryrose Smyth

Ruth Souza

Meredith Strauss

Dusty Taylor Guerra

Cameron Taylor Brown

Lydia Tjioe Hall

Tamara Tolkin

Elise Vazelakis

Kay Whitney

Peggy Wiedemann

Susan Zimmerman

Renae Barnard is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Barnard received her Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University and her BA from California State University, Los Angeles. She has recently completed projects in cooperation with the National Immigration Law Center and the City of Santa Monica Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a recipient of the Sue Arlen Walker and Harvey M. Parker Memorial Fellowship, the Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Artist Fellowship, The Ahmanson Annual Fellowship, Lincoln Fellowship Award, and Christopher Street West Art and Culture Grant.

Opening Reception: The Happiness You Deserve at Adams Square Park

Saturday, August 28th, 2021 from 2-4 pm. Hosted by Glendale’s Adams Hill Neighborhood Association and the City of Glendale Arts and Culture. Free and open to the public, this event celebrates the artist Renae Barnard and her new site-specific installation, the Happiness You Deserve. The reception will be held outdoors at Adams Square Mini Park, 1020 E Palmer Ave, Glendale, CA 91204.

Photos by Renae Barnard

Installation View: The Happiness You Deserve, inside Adams Square Park’s Historic Gas Station Building.

Detail of paper twisted around bamboo poles collected from the artist’s garden.

Artist Renae Barnard’s installation, The Happiness You Deserve, will be on display at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station from August 23 – October 1, 2021. “The Happiness You Deserve" is a temporary, fiber-based installation considering the unique location of this historic structure: a 1936 Streamline Moderne Gas Station that exists in a small and unexpectedly green, nature-abundant park within the city. Renae is known for her fiber-based work using upcycled and found materials to explore the network of interactions between environment, perception, and well-being. For this project, she is considering the ways in which the sculpture might engage with the space, contemplating illumination in the evening hours to draw continuous attention to the nature-rich site.

Detail View: From inside the gas station, viewing the artwork and the garden.

Through the process of creating the work, Renae will be working through ideas surrounding the connection of well-being and nature. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education.

Detail View: Salvaged bamboo poles, recycled newsprint, upcycled tracing paper and found packing paper are combined in the site specific sculpture, The Happiness You Deserve.

Detail View: Wire fasteners safely secure the sculpture to a simple structure inside the ceiling of the historic building.

Renae Barnard is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Barnard received her Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University and her BA from California State University, Los Angeles. She has recently completed projects in cooperation with the National Immigration Law Center and the City of Santa Monica Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a recipient of the Sue Arlen Walker and Harvey M. Parker Memorial Fellowship, the Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Artist Fellowship, The Ahmanson Annual Fellowship, Lincoln Fellowship Award, and Christopher Street West Art and Culture Grant.

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About Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department (GLAC) includes six neighborhood libraries as well as the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue housed in the historic 1904 mansion of Glendale pioneer Leslie C. Brand, and the Central Library, a 93,000 square foot center for individuals and groups to convene, collaborate and create. Now on the web at www.eGlendaleLAC.org, GLAC also serves as the chief liaison to the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission which works to continually transform Glendale into an ever-evolving arts and culture destination. For more information contact Library, Arts & Culture at 818-548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@glendaleca.gov.

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About the City of Glendale & its Arts and Culture Commission Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of more than 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks, and easy access to a municipal airport. It is home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking. Its Arts and Culture Commission administers a developer-funded program which is working to transform Glendale into an arts and culture destination for the Southern California region. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education. For more information about the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission see the website: https://www.glendaleartsandculture.org/ @myglendaleLAC #myglendaleLAC www.eGlendaleLAC.org

Fiber-based Artwork: Connections Between Environment, Perception, and Well-being.

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THE HAPPINESS YOU DESERVE Art Installation at Glendale’s Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station

GLENDALE, CA – Artist Renae Barnard’s installation, The Happiness You Deserve, will be on display at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station from August 23 – October 1, 2021. “The Happiness You Deserve" is a temporary, fiber-based installation considering the unique location of this historic structure: a 1936 Streamline Moderne Gas Station that exists in a small and unexpectedly green, nature-abundant park within the city. Renae is known for her fiber-based work using upcycled and found materials to explore the network of interactions between environment, perception, and well-being. For this project, she is considering the ways in which the sculpture might engage with the space, contemplating illumination in the evening hours to draw continuous attention to the nature-rich site.

The artist harvested bamboo poles from her garden to use as the structural support of her current work.

Through the process of creating the work, Renae will be working through ideas surrounding the connection of well-being and nature. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education.

For more information about the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission see the website: https://www.glendaleartsandculture.org/

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About Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department (GLAC) includes six neighborhood libraries as well as the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue housed in the historic 1904 mansion of Glendale pioneer Leslie C. Brand, and the Central Library, a 93,000 square foot center for individuals and groups to convene, collaborate and create. Now on the web at www.eGlendaleLAC.org, GLAC also serves as the chief liaison to the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission which works to continually transform Glendale into an ever-evolving arts and culture destination. For more information contact Library, Arts & Culture at 818-548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@glendaleca.gov.

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About the City of Glendale & its Arts and Culture Commission Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of more than 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks, and easy access to a municipal airport. It is home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking. Its Arts and Culture Commission administers a developer-funded program which is working to transform Glendale into an arts and culture destination for the Southern California region. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education. For more information about the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission see the website: https://www.glendaleartsandculture.org/ @myglendaleLAC #myglendaleLAC www.eGlendaleLAC.org

Photos by Renae Barnard

Media Contact: Jennifer Fukutomi-Jones, Principal Arts & Culture Administrator Glendale Library, Arts & Culture 222 E. Harvard St. Glendale, CA 91205

Email: jfjones@glendaleca.gov

Office: 818-937-7808

The Happiness You Deserve: A site specific installation at Adams Square Mini Park

Renae Barnard has been selected by the Glendale Arts and Culture Commissions to display a temporary, site specific installation in the historic Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station. This work will be on view to the public daily beginning August 24 until September 30, 2021.

The Happiness You Deserve is a temporary, fiber-based installation considering the unique location of this historic structure: a 1936 Streamline Moderne Gas Station that exists in a small and unexpectedly green, nature-abundant park within the city. Renae is known for her fiber-based work using upcycled and found materials to explore the network of interactions between environment, perception, and well-being. For this project, she is considering the ways in which the sculpture might engage with the space, contemplating illumination in the evening hours to draw continuous attention to the nature rich site. Through the process of creating the work, Renae will be working through ideas surrounding the connection of well-being and nature.

Salvia Blooming at Adams Square Mini Park in May 2021. Photo by Renae Barnard.

Renae Barnard is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Barnard received her Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University and her BA from California State University, Los Angeles. She has recently completed projects in cooperation with the National Immigration Law Center and the City of Santa Monica Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a recipient of the Sue Arlen Walker and Harvey M. Parker Memorial Fellowship, the Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Artist Fellowship, The Ahmanson Annual Fellowship, Lincoln Fellowship Award, and Christopher Street West Art and Culture Grant.

About the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission and Adams Square Mini Park Project

The mission of Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale. The Adams Square Mini Park project was completed by the City of Glendale to provide a green space in the middle of the business district for the densely populated Adams Hill neighborhood and to incorporate the historic 1936 Streamline Moderne Gas Station. The gas station is listed on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources.

Materiality & Method: A Small Works Fiber Show

Please join us on Sunday, September 8th from 4 - 6 pm for the opening reception of Materiality & Method a small works fiber show organized by Textile Arts Los Angeles in conjunction with Textile Month in September 2019. The exhibition will be on view at Daniella Carter’s architectural studio Pretty Smart in Long Beach, CA, through Saturday, October 5th, 2019.

Fiber is a fluid medium that allows artists to approach their work in many ways. This exhibition focuses on the intersection of process and material, and how every artist addresses these ideas in their work. Featuring artists’ work that uses innovative methods that manipulate, re-imagine and transcend our understanding of material.

Renae is pleased to be showing a wall sculpture entitled “The Noise Got Too Loud” made with cheesecloth, sodium chloride, dead sea salts, cardboard, and resin alongside a group of featured textile artists: Peggy Weidemann, Carlyn Clark, Sandy Abrams, Eva Rabin, Susan Maddux, Michael Rohde, Gwen Samuels, Polly Giacchina, Penny Collins, Joanna Stott, Lydia Tjioe Hall, Elise Vazelakis, Anne M Bray, Tamara Tolkin, Anna Zinsmeister, Dellis Frank, Barbara Klare, Claudia Zhao, Jamia Weir, and Brittany Wittman McLaughlin.

The Noise Got Too Loud. 10”W x 9”L x 3.5”D. Cheesecloth, sodium chloride, dead sea salts, cardboard, resin (2019).

For more information about Textile Arts Los Angeles please visit www.textileartsla.org

Regina Nervosa