EVENTS

Rune Box
Installation views


Artist Books for the fun of it!
-Workshops
-Community book making every third Saturday at Clinton Community Library
www.ArtistBooksforthefunofit.blogspot.com



EXHIBITS
Solo Exhibits
Millbrook Library, Millbrook NY - Rune Messages - interactive installation  2011
Soundtrack f/t, New York NY - Monoprints  2009-2011
Bright Hill Word and Image Gallery, Treadwell NY - Portolani - installation and artist books  2008
The Center at High Valley, Clinton Corners NY - Bears and Dreams - installation  2007
Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill NY - Dimensional Work - installation and artist books  2007
Sanjula, Tivoli NY - Dreamscapes - monoprints   2006
Clinton Community Library, Clinton Corners NY - The Fortune Bear - installation   2006
Millbrook Library, Millbrook NY - White Faced Woman - installation   2006
AMAGE Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill NY - Bound-Unbound - installation and artist books -2006

Group Exhibits
2011
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA - The Decorated Book - Continuing a Tradition
Akin Library & Museums, Pawling NY - Meeting Past
Book and Author Festival, San Luis Obispo CA - The Art of the Book
Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY - Art Women @ Work
Towson University, Towson MD - The Book, a Contemporary View
2010
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE – The Book, a Contemporary View
Bright Hill Word and Image Gallery, Treadwell NY – North American Juried Book Arts, artist books
2009
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY - Bound - artist books and installations
Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis MN - Leap of Faith - artist book and installation
San Luis Obsipo County Public Libraries, San Luis Obispo CA - Central Coast Book and Author Festival - artist books
Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies NY - beyondWORDS: BookFest 2009 - artist books
Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis MN - Readers' Art 9 - artist books
Greene County Council on the Arts Gallery, Catskill NY - Psychic Landscape
Gonzaga University Foley Center Library, Spokane WA - The Codex and the Helix - artist books
2008
Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson NY - ART WALK Waves on Windows - artist books
Bright Hill Word and Image Gallery, Treadwell NY - North American Juried Book Arts Show
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA - Artists' Books 2008
Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY - Art Women @ Work - installation
2007
Unframed Artists Gallery, New Paltz NY - Make Love Not War
2006
Clinton Community Library, Clinton Corners, NY – The Fortune Bear 

Sanjula, Tivoli NY – Dreamscapes, prints

Bright Hill Word and Image Gallery, Treadwell NY – North American Juried Book Arts

Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA – Artists’ Books

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz NY - Anxious Objects

PUBLICATIONS
Featured Artist in Bound & Lettered Magazine 8:4 November 2010
Poems in The Form of Matter Journal of Poems, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 2009
Articles about art for About Town of Dutchess and Columbia Counties 2005-06
Artwork for Cooking Like a Goddess (later issued as Witch in the Kitchen) by Cait Johnson (Inner Traditions 19970

GRANTS
Dutchess Arts Fund Exemplary Funded Arts in Education Grant awarded to Johanne Renbeck and Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi for
  Visual Narratives - The Artists' Workshop, an arts residency at LaGrange Elementary School
Dutchess Arts Fund - Portrait of Salt Point, a community exploration of historical images.

CATALOGS
The Book, A Contemporary View, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts 2011 www.thedcca.info
Book Arts 2010, The Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center
Beyond WORDS Book Fest 2009, Long Beach Island Foundation www.bookfest.com
Book Arts 2008, The Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center 
Book Arts 2007, The Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center

PERFORMANCE
Love and Madness - Cait Johnson & Friends production, Rokeby Mansion, Barrytown NY 2011
Midsummer Magic - Cait Johnson & Friends production, The Center at High Valley, Clinton Corners NY 2011
The Form of Matter - group poetry performance, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill NY 2009
Bears and Dreams - solo poetry performance, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY 2008
Bears and Dreams - solo poetry performance, Menla Retreat, Phonecia NY 2007
Bears and Dreams - solo poetry performance, The Center at High Valley, Clinton Corners NY 2007
Calling Animal Power - Weird Sisters production, Tivoli NY 1999

BIOGRAPHY
Johanne Renbeck holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Rochester.  She studied painting, drawing and sculpture in continuing education programs at Rochester Institute of Technology and Bard College and with Helen Frankenthaler at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Interest in the world of nature and how it nourishes language and myth has prompted extensive independent study as well as courses in Egyptian hieroglyphics.  Ongoing studies in the field of book arts have led her to workshops with Susan King, Daniel Kelm, Sarah Langworthy, Carolyn Chadwick, Ed Hutchins, Robert Walp, Pamela Moore, Pamela Spitzmeuller & Mary Hark.

STATEMENT
I make artist books about the woods and the moon, about wetlands and frogs, about how it feels to be surprised by a certain light and see my shadow cast across a field of grass.  I follow deer in my dreams.  In meditations, I am eaten by bears.  I pledge my heart to red osier dogwood.  Visions and dreams come from the earth and flow into my work.