Where: White Walls
Event Date: March 15, 2014
Event Time: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location: 886 Geary Street, San Francisco CA
Exhibit Dates: March 15 - April 5
For more details: http://whitewallssf.com/
White Walls Project Space is pleased to announce Les Clochards Célestes by Amsterdam-based artist Adele Renault. The opening reception will be Saturday, March 15, from 7-11 pm, and the exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through April 5, 2014.
Painter Adele Renault looks where most people tend to ignore, especially when wandering the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Visiting regularly since 2010, she started to recognize the outdoor inhabitants — first the pigeons, then the people.
Les Clochards Célestes is the French translation of The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac’s novel that is set in San Francisco’s bohemian scene in the late fifties. The word ‘celestial’ has heavenly connotations but literally means ‘of the sky’. This adjective suits both the homeless and the feathered which make up Renault’s new body of oil paintings.
Renault’s portraits are non-voyeuristic, isolated from their surroundings, enlarged and bathing in sunlight. She engages with the individual and always starts a painting with the eyes. “After that,” Renault states, “the soul reveals itself and painter and painting start to breathe together.”