Renee's background as a professional modern dancer (formerly of Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Co.) greatly influences her as a visual artist and contributes a love of motion to her work.
The desire to activate a particular set of circumstances in painting fuels the creation of the body of my work. Most compelling to me in this process is the use of negative space to visually manifest a network of contiguous parts. I have found that the process of gleaning negative space requires a great deal of ritual pattern and because of its omnipresence it has become a subject itself. The desire to transform this network has led me to use different media and to move between two and three dimensional works.
The idea of a network of contiguous parts interests me because it mimics the unity of matter and raises questions about the space that exists between two material objects.
