Dawn-17 (water) (Primary Title)
Edda Renouf, American, born Mexico, born 1943 (Artist)
Fifty Works for Fifty States: In 2008, in a unique partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Vogels distributed twenty-five hundred works across the country, giving fifty works to one art museum in each of the fifty states. This exhibition, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, showcases the fifty works VMFA received as part of that initiative, which bears the same title. As a diverse and rich body of work, the Vogels' generous giftattests to their passion and commitment to sharing contemporary art with the public.
Edda Renouf In her drawings, Renouf works chalk into the surface of thick rag paper before saturating it with rich, dark hues of watercolor. Sometimes she usesa knife to make incisions in the surface of the paper and adds color; the result is the formation of dark patterns where the cuts absorb more pigment. Other times she makes delicate slashes in the paper at the end, leaving white marks that expose thetexture beneath. She attributes the pulsating, sensory experience the drawings produce to her layered process: In making a painting or a drawing the direct contact I have with canvas material, with the paper, is essential to my work. For it is in the changing of these structures that a certain energy is revealed.
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