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Renee Eaton

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Favorite Medium: paintings
Statement: A dedicated watercolorist, Renee Eaton has forged a new role for watercolor in today's art world. Fascinated by how watercolor reacts with other materials, the artist pushes her work technically to the limits of experimental application. She first used thick and thin layers of gesso painted with watercolor, fresco style, to build up the material on paper and then, transferred the process to the backside of the translucent acetate and Plexiglas. Equally skilled in painting on canvas, the artist has combined these brilliant watercolor-painted acetate and Plexiglas surfaces with acrylic painted canvases to create an exciting mixed media design to express her varied subject matter. Whether the subject be creation mythology, the prehistoric cave art of Lascaux, the neon light of a night city or the life of a rose, Mrs Eaton's art reflects her varied interests and experiences. With reference to to images shown on the AOV website Renee Eaton has transposes the Stone Age cave paintings of France to a modern context using watercolor and ink on the reverse side of Plexiglas. Her paintings are inspired by early man's reverence for the vibrant world of animals around him. They reflect his sensitivity to color, line and shape and serve as a reminder of ancient man's creative capacity and artistic genius. As Teilhard de Chardin, the French paleontologist and philosopher, said, ""What we discover (in prehistoric art) is our own infancy; we find ourselves, because we perceive ""the same basic aspirations that spring from the bottom of our souls.""
Bibliography: March 27-April 26,2002 ""Feminie Dialogue,"" Exposition Franco-Americaine, Paris 2001 ""International Women Artists Volume 2,"" Alliance of Women Artists, Greenbrae. CA (appear in Volume 1, 1997) 2000 ""Salon dÃ¢Â€Â™Automne 2000."" Espace Eiffel Branly, October 13-22, 2000, Paris -international artists/juried- (appear in the Salon dÃ¢Â€Â™ AutomneÃ¢Â€Â™s International Directory, listing juried artists since 1903) ORGANIZATIONS: 2003-1992 Alliance of Women Artists, Greenbrae. CA 2003-1985 Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation, Carmel, CA 2003-1996 SOMA Artists Studios, San Francisco 1997 San Francisco Open Studios
Birth City: USA

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San Francisco, California
United States
eatonrenee@aol.com
Phone: (415) 381-9180
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Fax: (415) 381-9185

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Awards: 1994 Merit Award, 2nd Biennial Watercolor, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA 1990 Florence L. Beard Award, 24th annual Watercolor Competitive, Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove, CA 1989 First Prize Watercolor, 23rd Annual, Seaside, CA Competitive 1986 First Place, Professional Class, Monterey County Fair, Monterey, CA 1984 Award of Merit, Non-professional Class, Monterey County Fair, Monterey,CA
Teaching Experience: : (Watercolor/Experimental Water Media) Present to 1997 private classes 1996 to 1989 EBA School of Art, San Francisco 1996 to 1994 Community Visual Art Association, Jackson, WY LECTURES & DEMONSTRATIONS: 2001 San Francisco Design Center Market Week 2001 & 1998 California Central Coast Art Association 1999 Panel Member, Arts Habitat Conference, ""Creating Places For Creating Art,"" Carmel, CA 1997 & 1994 Art West Gallery, Jackson, WY

Education

Institution: St. Lawrence Univ; NY Museum of Mod Art Schl;SF City College

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Renee Eaton California art watercolor 10.5x44	Renee Eaton California art watercolor 6x15.5
Renee Eaton California art watercolor 18x18	Renee Eaton California art watercolor 20x33

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