A NEW WAVE

A group exhibition featuring a collection of new artworks by master painter Janet Jennings , ceramicist Sheryl Zacharia, sculptor Kim Boulukos, and introducing artist Rene Romero Schuler

Janet jennings

Janet Jennings is known for her luminous oil & watercolor paintings.

After working for Lawrence Rubin at Knoedler Contemporary Art, Jennings maintained a studio at Waverly Studios in New York City. She began as a Color Field painter, working on canvas and linen.

Jennings maintains ties to the art community as an educator and curator. She is a member of the East Hampton Arts Council, an advocacy group for performing and visual artists of East Hampton. Ms. Jennings maintains a painting studio in East Hampton and currently teaches oil and watercolor classes.

In 1997, she was a founding member of CMEE, The Children’s Museum of the East End. Working with Lee Skolnick and JoAnn Secor, she was an exhibit designer and fabricator for “Time and Place, Light and Space”, the initial installation at Guild Hall, which launched CMEE. She was a lead designer for the permanent exhibition installation of CMEE, located in Bridgehampton, NY.

Jennings received her BFA from the University of Dayton and attended The Dayton Art Institute, Antioch College and The Art Students League.

Her paintings are in numerous corporate and private collections worldwide.

She has exhibited at numerous galleries on Long Island and New York City including The New York Design Center, Hampton Road Gallery, Pamela Williams Gallery, Folioeast, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Chase Edwards Gallery, Gallery North, Elaine Benson Gallery, Glen Horowitz Gallery, Mark Humphrey Gallery, and Arc Fine Arts.

Janet moved to Amagansett, NY in 1981 and switched her focus to landscape painting. Her career path led her to teach at The Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall & The Victor D’amico Institute of Art. From 1993 to 1998, she was the Chair of the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Preserve Program.

René Romero Schuler

Schuler is an American painter and sculptor whose work is directly connected to her strong belief in the power of femininity and the stories women have to tell.

Embracing the contrast between perceptions of femininity and the complexity of female lives—sometimes not conventionally “pretty” but fascinating and powerful—Schuler’s work offers an independent, strong and beautiful vision of womanhood that seeks to provoke thought and empower others.Schuler’s own story is one of incredible strength and tenacity, born out of a personal journey that both challenged and shaped her, ultimately allowing her to find healing and joy through her art, and to share that journey with others. Born in Chicago, she spent part of her childhood in Ecuador with her grandparents, before returning to the city’s north side and a difficult home life that prompted her to leave home at an early age.On her own as a teen, Schuler found both solace and a profession in her lifelong talent for creating artwork, eventually building a robust business around commissioned work for designers of hospitality environments and becoming a savvy, successful entrepreneur. Meanwhile, her self-taught fine art practice continued as a constant outlet for her creativity and vision—work that allowed her inner life and past traumas to make their way onto canvas, transforming pain into joy through the alchemy of art

Spirit is what connects all of humanity. Yet, the innate human nature that drives us to judge one another based on nothing more than face value is a notion that fascinates me and thoroughly influences my work.In every work I create, I strive to show the imperfection, stress and underlying beauty of the being I portray. There are no fine characteristics or clearly defined attributes to my figures--they are everyone and no one. The meaning lies in the representation of the image, not the image or the “face value” itself.With a fluid and meditative approach to my work, this understanding emerges--our inner beauty transcends the physical, emotional and mental barriers that our life experiences have created within us. I hope to tap into the need to realize and embrace that transcendence with work deeply connected to my soul, and I attempt to convey that truth in everything I do.

- Rene Romero Schuler

SHERYL ZACHARIA

Sheryl Zacharia was born and raised in the New York area and lived in Manhattan all of her adult life. At Southhampton College, she majored in painting but spent many years pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter. She performed in the NYC club circuit for over 10 years and is a published songwriter.

Missing her visual arts roots, she began working in clay which started her on new artistic path. She studied and worked in various Potteries and has exhibited both locally and nationally. Her pieces have been published in various magazines and books, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramic Arts and Perception, Lark Publications etc. and most recently in Blouins Gallery Guide's article on SOFA CHICAGO 2015.

Though she has always considered herself a die-hard New Yorker, she recently relocated to Santa Fe New Mexico to live out her dream of being a full time artist with a home studio. She looks forward to a different pace where her energy can be focused on her work and she can enjoy the surrounding beauty and culture that the area has to offer.

Zacharia’s work is in corporate, museum and private collections. In 2011 she completed an eight month extended residency at The Museum Of Arts and Design in NYC.

KIM BOULUKoS

Born in New York in 1957, Kim Boulukos has been living and working in Nice since 1992. She studied lithography at the State University College of New York in Potsdam, New York, then sculpture and art history at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art receiving high honors for her thesis installation of clouds.

Kim Boulukos’ artwork of stylized horses and antelopes is soothing and peaceful, whereas her work inspired by dogs is joyful and playful.

She constructs her sculptures by assembling smaller elements together through welding, weaving or sculpting and uses a variety of materials including metals, clay, resin, natural fibers, feathers, seeds and other vegetal matter.

Not only is her artwork suitable for cultural spaces, Kim Boulukos’ animals integrate well in interiors of traditional and contemporary homes, restaurants or offices. Because metal is the most durable material for outdoor works, her bronze or steel sculptures easily enhance a courtyard or garden landscape.