Jordanne Renner at the opening reception of her show "Vignettes" at the German Village Meeting Haus
Head over soon to the German Village Meeting Haus to see Jordanne Renner's art exhibit. It closes April 28, 2023.
From Jordanne:
VIGNETTES is an illustrated (re)collection from travels and daily life by local artist Jordanne Renner. This particular show is organized into 24 vertical frames exposing the playful delight of our mis/interpretation of an event or feeling that our memories may miss/serve us.
VIGNETTES is an illustrated (re)collection from travels and daily life by local artist Jordanne Renner. This particular show is organized into 24 vertical frames exposing the playful delight of our mis/interpretation of an event or feeling that our memories may miss/serve us.
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Attendees enjoying the art reception.
The show pays homage to the artist’s second nature as a film photographer. Representing a roll of film, the viewer will find images from high above the world in a bird’s eye view from air travel via the window seat as well as potentially mundane daily musings to internal or dream-like observations.
For this show, it was very important for me to select 24 vertical images from my diary to pay homage to a roll of 24 exposure film. Each image is an exposure of me, a self portrait really… and like a class 35mm roll of film, you collect quite a diverse range of snapshots of your experiences.
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This is an ongoing series, haha as many of mine are, but it’s really for me- I am the audience. VIGNETTES is apart of my visual diary reflecting on daily mundane occurrences, to transient moments while in the air sitting in the window seat of a flight, to the intermingling of memory and lucid dreams.
I enjoy how many of them can be interpreted in a variety of ways- not just by a viewer that doesn’t know the back story, but also by me— and that’s what is intriguing about recollection. Whether we are recalling a dream or something that was a reality, or a day dream/inner dialogue situation- the conversation is never static, it’s often evolving each time we reflect or reminisce on it.
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Images from the Window Seat collection.
Window Seat is a sub-series from my visual diary, and I’ve included 13 from that series to tell a stories alongside of the other 11 that are more illustrative of daily occurrences. Photography is second nature for me, I shoot film still- primarily medium and large formats, but I’m using the idea of a snapshot and roll of film with these illustrative watercolor paintings.
Each is a visual representation of a life moment! How it made me feel, was it reality or dream-like, or inner thoughts/dialogue— it doesn’t matter— the colors, markings, abstractions and title of each piece is an invitation for the viewer to step into a moment I’ve had and have their own experience with it.
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