Gallery 1957 is proud to have had the brilliant artist Tjasa Rener in residency for the past two months.
Ghana-based Slovenian artist, Rener has studied painting at Academy of Fine Arts & Design at University of Ljubljana and printmaking at Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb, Croatia and has participated in many group and solo exhibitions around the globe.
Her artistic expression is influenced by the everyday life of people in Ghana and the relationship among home, family, and society.
During her residency at Gallery 1957, Rener has painted a number of large and medium portraits with extremely fast strokes of paint and charcoal through a sketchy technique that defines her unique aesthetic by capturing her personal impression of the person portrayed. Every figure she has painted has a particular relationship to Gallery 1957 and posed during a life painting session in her studio.
We look forward to exhibiting her work in Accra in her first solo exhibition with the gallery opening later this year.
