Re-acquaintance and the Renwick

It’s a long story but Anna Lee got connected with a cousin of a cousin.  Because of that we got a personal tour of our favorite DC museum, the Renwick.  When we were here last year, the museum had just reopened with special exhibits, each filling a room.  Some of those exhibits remain, old favorite items have been returned and there are new installations to enjoy.

Volume by Leo Villareal is made of LED and stainless steel and is constantly changing.

 Janet Echelman’s woven sculpture, 1.8 Renwick remain from last years exhibit, Wonder.

 Cousin Sara is a docent at the Renwick and gave us an in-depth tour of the museum.  Under her guidance we looked more closely and saw things we had overlooked.  Her knowledge gave us insight we had lacked from viewing on our own and just reading label copy.  We were glad to see this trompe l’oeil Ghost Clock by Wendell Castle back on display; it is carved from a single piece of wood.

 We saw Nick Cave’s large exhibit at MassMOCA and we delighted to see some of his smaller work.  This Soundsuit implies protection from all that is going on in the world.   

 Jerry paid particular attention to the Sam Maloof and George Nakashima chairs.

 This Untitled Trophy is by UC Davis artist Robert Arneson (we will be seeing more of his work in a new museum in Davis, CA).

 Hiram Powers, created six life-size sculptures depicting a fully nude female figure.  This is a work done on a 3-D printer of the Greek Slave, a original of which is in the National Portrait Gallery.

 Following Sara’s tour, the curator of the museum gave a tour of Visions and Revisions, art from four unique artists
               
Jennifer Track creates art from bone and antique objects.

Stephen Lee Young uses intentional accidents to create his beautiful ceramics.

Norwood Viviano’s blown and cast works show historic changes in human activity around the world

It is hard to believe that Kristen Morgan’s works are made of unfired clay.

We enjoyed a delicious lunch.  It gave Anna Lee and Sara a chance to reconnect and for we two couples to talk.  We look forward to getting together with Sara and her husband Mark on our next trip to DC.

This was the seventh museum we had visited in two weeks and each one is fabulous.  We encourage any of you who can get to this area to enjoy these as we did.