{"id":1916,"date":"2017-11-03T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2018-05-29T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T21:08:28","slug":"renee-mcginnis-84-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2017\/11\/03\/renee-mcginnis-84-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Renee McGinnis ’84"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The exhibit entitled “OF RUST AND MEN” presents the newest paintings of Chicago artist,\u00a0Renee McGinnis ’84 and will open Friday, January 5th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm and run through Feburary 24th, 2018 at ZG Gallery in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Renee on her exhibit:<\/div>\n
“I spent much of my childhood riding the Great Plains of central Illinois on horseback or in luxurious automobiles, passing abandoned farms and towns.\u00a0 I was in awe of the grand, magnificent scale of these forgotten places, and became aware of the nature of passing time, beauty and gradual decay.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With a precise hand, I paint aging, rusted megastructures surrounded by lush botanicals of a misdirected beauty, suggesting man\u2019s infallible desire to control nature and his surroundings.\u00a0 The once luxurious ocean liners, the highly sexualized iron ore uploaders and Battersea Power Stations are staged in deceptively beautiful gardens or stricken on turbulent seas.\u00a0 The purity of the water, clouds and flora, juxtaposed with these decaying structures, create a potent marriage of emotions where the viewer can choose to engage in the monument of human labor or take in the serene beauty enveloping it.”<\/div>\n
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Accompanying the larger works in this exhibition will be a series of thirteen micro-tondos lining the main wall of the gallery, like portholes of a great ship.\u00a0 Each 3 3\/4″ painting offers an intimate, pristine view of our natural world of clouds, storms, marine animals and plant life, each devoid of any trace of man.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“The Peaceable Republic” oil on canvas 36x48in.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More on Renee’s exhibition:<\/div>\n
ZG Gallery 300 W. Superior, Chicago IL<\/div>\n
phone: 312.654.9900<\/div>\n
email: Info@ZgGallery.com<\/div>\n
www.zggallery.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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Learn more about Renee and her work here:\u00a0www.reneemcginnis.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The exhibit entitled “OF RUST AND MEN” presents the newest paintings of Chicago artist,\u00a0Renee McGinnis ’84 and will open Friday, January 5th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm and run through Feburary 24th, 2018 at ZG Gallery in Chicago. Renee on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}