CONTEMPORARY CRAFT GALLERY
535 Julia St. New Orleans, La. 70130
504-524-3233

WILLIAM RAINEY

William Rainey: Watch Me Pull a Rabbit Out of my Hat

The process of abstract art does not translate easily to words. I am not as comfortable talking about my art as I am in making it. I listen to jazz when I paint. Jazz is an improvisation on a theme, a blend of elements in the space of time. My art is like that. My paintings always begin with drawing nonobjective shapes, the use of line to define area and to push the limits of real and abstract. I can’t imagine painting something exactly as it is. That’s what a camera is for. For me, color and my own emotions play the themes, blending the elements in the space of the canvas.

I require nothing special of the observer…Each viewer may see and feel what they see and feel, and play their own themes and improvisations…That way we can both be surprised.

Education
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1992

Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Masters Program
Santa Fe, NM, Selected to study with Nathan Olivera, 1992

Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, 1990

Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, 1965-67

Jasper County Junior College, Joplin, MO, 1963-64

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 1962

Please join us for our opening receptions during an art walk on the first Saturday of every month in the New Orleans Arts District from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Our current hours are Sunday 10 AM- 2 PM and Monday - Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM or by appointment.

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