Edgar Award Artist 2008
Each Edgar Award honoree receives an original work of art by a local artist.
2008 Artist: Renee Gentz
Renee was born in Albuquerque, and grew up in California. She received her art degree from San Jose State University and has done post-graduate work at the University of New Mexico.
In 1994 when her youngest child started kindergarten Renee then found the time to start doing art again. She dyes and paints all her fabric, working with cotton and silk. And then transforms her fabric into vibrant fiber constructions and collages that have been described as "pure visual joy."
Renee's work is included in the Art Collections of the Harwood Museum in Taos, State of New Mexico, Bernalillo County and the Fisherville VA Medical Center
Renee writes, “I am fascinated by the tonal value of color, rough versus smooth, structure versus chaos. Some work will be about those two different approaches, and some work uses both ideas. My designs are never predetermined, they develop as I go. I work in a deliberate and thoughtful manner until the design problem is solved in a sudden insight. My goal as an artist is to communicate emotions in a non-verbal, non-objective way by using color and color combinations. I love that a connection between myself and another can happen regardless of time or distance.”
