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Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Lee Renninger: Le Jardin de la Patisserie (The Pastry Garden)

September 19 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

- Free

Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Lee Renninger: Le Jardin de la Patisserie (The Pastry Garden) 

Join us on Thursday, September 19th from 5:30 – 7:00 PM for an opening reception and talk for artist Lee Renninger and her exhibition, Le Jardin de la Patiserie (The Pastry Garden). This body of work, produced at the Kohler Company artist residency in Wisconsin, is a series of slip cast ceramic pieces made from molds of cake tins and pastry forms. Having access to the Kohler workshop, Lee Renninger donned her steel-toed boots for a three-month period working in the same factory that produces bathroom fixtures like sinks and toilets. Come learn how this immersion into factory grade ceramic production impacted her studio practice and inspired this world of French pastry perfection. 
 
Artist talk will start in the welcome center at 5:30 PM and conclude with a walk through of the exhibition space. Come learn about the fascinating process of slip cast ceramics in Lee’s exhibition as well as its connection to George Ohr’s ceramic production as well! 
 
Free with RSVP
 

BIO
Lee Renninger is an autodidact and Mississippi based, installation artist working primarily in porcelain. Her conceptual focus is on the personal bringing form to questions about both our internal and external states.

Exhibition venues include the Museum of Arts and Design, the Mint Museum, the Shepparton Art Museum, and the Mississippi Museum of Art.

Awards include: a Pollock-Krasner Grant, and a Jane Crater Hiatt Fellowship.

She has been an artist-in-residence at the Kohler Company in Wisconsin, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the McColl Center for Art and Innovation in North Carolina and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.

Commissions include works for the Potawatomi Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, French Quarter Hiatt Hotel in New Orleans, and the St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta.

Her work was most recently published in Picturing Mississippi 1817 – 2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise by the Mississippi Museum of Art, The Ceramics Bible by Louisa Taylor, and Contemporary Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper.

It is held in both public and private collections including those of Fidelity Investments, Ally Bank, Kohler Company, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Shepparton Art Museum

Details

Date:
September 19
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:

Organizer

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
Phone
(228) 374-5547
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Venue

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
386 Beach Boulevard
Biloxi, MS 39530 United States
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Phone
2283745547