Gregg Renfrow - Nancy Toomey Fine Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Closer to the Water – January 30 to March 2, 2020

In the Field – September 30 to November 11, 2017

GROUP SHOWS

Summer – July 13 to August 18, 2018

Gathering Light – March 18 to April 30, 2016

Gregg Renfrow, photo by John Wilson White

Gregg Renfrow, a Bay Area based artist, continues his preoccupation with light and color as the fertile field in which he deploys his materials and processes. Renfrow applies pigment dissolved in polymer medium to translucent sheets of cast acrylic. These hang unframed and slightly forward, allowing the passage oflight through in both directions. The luminosity that ensues seems a kind of summoning of light through the medium of color–a conjuring of experience that we the viewer bring to the work as we physically experience it. Renfrow has often stated that the subject of his painting is the actual viewer–that the engaged interaction of the audience is embodied in the painting process and the painting materials. This experience of pure seeing is the only claim on one’s time and one’s senses. In the artist’s words, “The point of everything is the search for and discovery of light. Everything else is just commentary.”

Gregg Renfrow received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited both nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s. Renfrow lives and works in the SF Bay Area. His work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum, and Weisman Collection in Los Angeles.

Closer to the Water is Gregg Renfrow’s fourth solo show at Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco.