Renée Zangara
Portland, OR

Palette  (1995-2011)

$1150

To purchase this work please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

The little palette, a component of my French easel, has been an integral part of my studio’s landscape since 1995. It has been a useful device when I’ve needed a small portable surface to load my paints. Over the years it has accumulated enough Gamblin, Old Holland, Grumbacher, Williamsburg, Sennelier, et al., to morph into its very own topographical map.

When Laura Russell extended the Globe invitation, it was a natural response to merge my daily interaction with paint—my world, so to speak—with the quiet yet vibrant piece of pressboard that has been more than a mere surface to hold paint… my palette.

Palette, globe, and oil paint, 18 x 11.5 x 4.6 inches, globe diameter 4.5 inches, 2011.

Artist Biography

Renée Zangara was born in Oakland, California and with the exception of a short stay in Denver, Colorado, she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 1992 and enrolled in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Marylhurst University, graduating in 1996. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is in private and public collections, including the Regional Arts & Cultural Council’s (RACC) Visual Chronicle, Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Over the past 15 years, Renée has focused on portrayals of isolated over-sized botanical or animal-referenced images depicted in abstracted environments. She is interested in and inspired by the energies invested in human relationships, characteristics, and conditions and how she imagines these same attributes reflected in the objects she renders. Her affinity for the painting medium is made obvious by the energetic brush stroke and intense physicality on the canvas surface.

Renée is an active member of Portland’s art community and a member of Nine Gallery.