Above Left: Skyrider, 2007
Pigmentmarker + collage on paper, 62 x 43.2 cms


Above Right: Hobbyhorse, 2007
Pigmentmarker + collage on paper, 120 x 100 cms

Above:
SubRosa, 2007
pigment marker on acrylic glass
200.7 x 200.7 cms

Cornelia Renz meticulously builds each work as a unique art-object. She paints on two separate surfaces, a front one of transparent acrylic and a back one that is either white acrylic or white polyurethane foam. Her medium is self-made, a mixture of pigments poured into empty magic marker casings. She applies the paint with her markers, adjusting the felt tips to get different qualities of line. Renz makes each frame always in white polyethylene, containing the individual work as if it were a Pandora�s Box. The final effect is three-dimensional: part drawing, part painting part sculptural box.



Cornelia Renz studied in Leipzig at the Hochschule f�r Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts). She was included in the book, Berlin Art Now, written by Mark Gisbourne and published last year by Thames and Hudson. This will be her second solo exhibition in New York. The artist lives and works in Berlin.