Archived: February 22nd - March 27th, 2007
The Goodfoot will have an art opening on Feb 22nd from 5-11pm. The
artists this month are Jesse Reno & Jeremy Schultz. Both are abstract
painters.
Jesse Reno - self taught mixed media painter, has been drawing since he could hold a pencil. he has been exhibiting his work since 2000.
Portland, OR artist Jesse Reno is well known in the Outsider Art community and has recently been a featured artist in numerous art magazines including Juxtapoz, Artension, and Sedition. His work is included in a Fantagraphics Publshing Co. book of classical mythologic beasts illustrated by artists from the realm of comics, skate, rock, sci-fi and fine arts. In addition to completing 5 new public arts murals in Portland, Reno is a finalist in the International Mural Competition in Manitoba, Canada. In December 2006 his work was included in Visual AIDS "Postcards From the Edge", a benefit in Chelsea, NY. Upcoming shows include a solo show at the BLK/MRKT Gallery in Culver City, CA (April, 2007) and a solo show at The Brick Lane Gallery in London, UK (June, 2007).
Jeremy Schultz was born in a time before nostalgia, when awkward behemoths spit fire and fury across the earth, wreaking havoc on creatures more slight in stature and ferocity. He was raised on a diet of small grubs and platypus blood, and spent most of his childhood crafting small loincloths for himself and his sister out of mud and pumpa grass.
When Jeremy was six he developed a new form of greeting, which later came to be known as the "low five", a distant cousin of the already popular high five.
His educational life was riddled with strife. He bounced from one prep school to another, knocking up girls and knocking down boys. But this is where he began to draw, and draw he did. He drew weapons, exotic plants, cloud formations, and bifurcated water slides. He drew underwear and pillows, whisky and worms, and sometimes he even drew blood. Jeremy began to draw the creatures from his youth, the small ones who were devoured by the large behemoths. Then he began to draw the behemoths as well.
Since Jeremy moved to Portland, weird stuff has been happening. Now Jeremy draws this stuff too.