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    Renzo Ortega

    Renzo Ortega is an artist based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His work embodies a range of styles and influences, from patterns design, gestural expressionism, to figuration and abstraction.

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    SAVED: OBJECTS OF THE DEAD

    Saved: Objects of the Dead is a photographic and poetic exploration of the human experience of life, death, and memory. The book features over forty color photographs by NC-based artist Jody Servon paired with prose poems by CA-based poet Lorene Delany-Ullman.

  • ARTIST

    Leigh Suggs

    Suggs channels her fascination with the mystery and psychology of sight through cut paper works and large-scale installations. She obscures normal perception, manipulating her materials as if optical illusions.

  • ARTIST

    JASON MITCHAM

    Through an interdisciplinary approach rooted in painting and stop-motion animation, Jason Mitcham’s work explores mapping, land use, layering of history and cycles of growth and decay. His work charts the complex web of social, political and environmental forces embedded in the landscape. Both his research and practice are heavily influenced by his history as a land surveyor.

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    Love Over Rules

    What does it mean to let love break the rules we have in our lives? That is the question built into Artsuite’s inaugural project, LOVERULES — a new large-scale installation in Raleigh’s warehouse district created by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas.

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    WILLIAM PAUL THOMAS

    Thomas' portrait series, which gets its name from a medical term used to describe blueness of the skin caused by insufficiently oxygenated blood, began with a painting of the artist’s young nephew, Michael. Thomas painted half of Michael's face blue as a way of emphasizing his brown skin, to make his complexion part of the content and the conversation. The artist says that the underlying, more universal idea behind the half-blue portraits is the fact that we are all dealing with some kind of conflict, trauma or adversity that the people we engage with day-to-day might not know anything about.

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Renzo Ortega

Painting | 2020

 

"Painting is my life's mission and a manifesto of the moving energy that keeps crossing frontiers, generating bonds, and creating communities that exist because of its members' physical presence, the information they carry within themselves, and the evolutionary process they experience. My artwork reflects an evolving intellectual and life experience influenced by the sociopolitical and geographical contexts. In Lima-Perú, where I grew up, the Andes' colors melt with urban gray chaos. I lived in New York for 16 years, surrounded by and interacting with a multi-cultural community. I now live in Carrboro, North Carolina, where the landscape view changed from urban to rural, transforming the colors of my palette. These transitions and displacements have influenced my work thematically and technically, constructing my identity. I embody freedom in the various styles that coexist in my paintings, ranging from patterns design, gestural expressionism, figurative to abstraction. I believe that painting is an infinite loop of life itself, a vast universe of artistic creation. Painting is a journey into infinity."

-Renzo Ortega

Size

24 x 18" - Framed in Black

 

Materials

Acrylic, rain water and sand beach on linen


Authenticity

Hand signed by the artist

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Renzo Ortega

Painting | 2020

 

"Painting is my life's mission and a manifesto of the moving energy that keeps crossing frontiers, generating bonds, and creating communities that exist because of its members' physical presence, the information they carry within themselves, and the evolutionary process they experience. My artwork reflects an evolving intellectual and life experience influenced by the sociopolitical and geographical contexts. In Lima-Perú, where I grew up, the Andes' colors melt with urban gray chaos. I lived in New York for 16 years, surrounded by and interacting with a multi-cultural community. I now live in Carrboro, North Carolina, where the landscape view changed from urban to rural, transforming the colors of my palette. These transitions and displacements have influenced my work thematically and technically, constructing my identity. I embody freedom in the various styles that coexist in my paintings, ranging from patterns design, gestural expressionism, figurative to abstraction. I believe that painting is an infinite loop of life itself, a vast universe of artistic creation. Painting is a journey into infinity."

-Renzo Ortega

Size

24 x 18" - Framed in Black

 

Materials

Acrylic, rain water and sand beach on linen


Authenticity

Hand signed by the artist

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