Gregg Renfrow | Apprehension of Beauty | Viewing Room
Gregg Renfrow
When Wind Passes Over Him, 2021
polymer and pigment on cast acrylic
48 x 24"
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Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Apprehension of Beauty, Bay Area artist Gregg Renfrow’s latest artworks infused with color and light. Renfrow creates semi-transparent acrylic panels that feature layers of color that emerge from the center and emanate towards the edges of each composition. The luminescent shades, made from poured polymer and pigment, appear suspended in space.
Day by Day (2021), Wise Heart (2021), and When Wind Passes Over Him (2021) installed in Renfrow’s studio. Image provided by the artist.
Gregg Renfrow, About the Weather Last Night, 2021, polymer and pigment on cast acrylic, 48 x 36"
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Gregg Renfrow, The Silent World, 2021, polymer and pigment on cast acrylic, 20 x 18"
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Renfrow...wants us to experience a flavor of light available only in his paintings: a luminosity cleansed of the reminders of time that tinge our ordinary consciousness of any light source.
– KENNETH BAKER, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, 2006
In these new works, combinations of warm and cool striations form color fields that radiate ambient light and appear to glow from within. Each artwork is responsive to its environment’s surrounding light and possesses an aura of spirituality more commonly associated with natural phenomena like the ocean, sky, or a sunset.
Gregg Renfrow, Holding My Breath, 2021, polymer and pigment on cast acrylic, 48 x 48"
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BEHIND THE SCENES
Take a peek inside Gregg Renfrow’s studio (left) and view inspirational reference images provided by the artist (right).
The artist’s exhibition title hints at a kind of ambivalence regarding the trappings of traditional beauty in favor of an intangible, enigmatic experience.
Gregg Renfrow, Apprehension of Beauty, 2021, polymer and pigment on cast acrylic, 60 x 48"
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Renfrow's polymer and pigment works on cast acrylic are sublimity made material: super-saturated blocks of color that reveal, on close inspection, delicate striations, chromatic shifts, and beaded, dripped-dry edges, like Popsicles that have been licked for a while, then put back in the freezer.
– RICHARD SPEER, WILLAMETTE WEEK, 2004
Gregg Renfrow, It Takes 500 Years to Walk There, 2021, polymer and pigment on cast acrylic, 60 x 48"
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Gregg Renfrow, The Gates, 2021, polymer and pigment on cast acrylic, 48 x 36"
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
See Gregg Renfrow’s work featured in Gentry Home Magazine (pg. 144)
