Lettie Jane Rennekamp was born in 1982 in Louisville, Kentucky. She received her BFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. She loves to illustrate, draw, throw tiny pots, make intricate pattern paintings, build fairy houses, cut wood, paint rooms, you know, make stuff.
In my own words:
love to draw and paint patterns. I find great satisfaction filling paper or panels with detailed arrangements of my own making. I frequently depict people or amorphous animals in two dimensional spaces with decorative backgrounds or borders. My subjects are often portraits of fictional people or very abstracted depictions of people interacting.
I work with acrylic paint, pen and ink, and colored pencils. I like to use vibrant and contrasting colors; things that almost make your eyes hurt. My line drawings rely more on texture and detail than color. I often use borders- made up of plants or abstract shapes- to make icons out of my subject matter. I am inspired by religious iconography. I love to organize pieces around arbitrary numbers or forms, using my current age as the limit to colors in a pattern or picking colors based upon my subject's zodiac.
I want my work to be beautiful and ornate while simultaneously displaying evidence of a handmade naïveté. I make work to give myself a small universe with structure and rules that I am in complete control of. Therefore, I can bend and change the rules and my resulting piece has imperfections that are endearing and intentionally human.
In my own words:
love to draw and paint patterns. I find great satisfaction filling paper or panels with detailed arrangements of my own making. I frequently depict people or amorphous animals in two dimensional spaces with decorative backgrounds or borders. My subjects are often portraits of fictional people or very abstracted depictions of people interacting.
I work with acrylic paint, pen and ink, and colored pencils. I like to use vibrant and contrasting colors; things that almost make your eyes hurt. My line drawings rely more on texture and detail than color. I often use borders- made up of plants or abstract shapes- to make icons out of my subject matter. I am inspired by religious iconography. I love to organize pieces around arbitrary numbers or forms, using my current age as the limit to colors in a pattern or picking colors based upon my subject's zodiac.
I want my work to be beautiful and ornate while simultaneously displaying evidence of a handmade naïveté. I make work to give myself a small universe with structure and rules that I am in complete control of. Therefore, I can bend and change the rules and my resulting piece has imperfections that are endearing and intentionally human.
