Shelley Zentner

Shelley Zentner

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Online shop now open 👇🏽Exhibition opening soon! Haldan Gallery 7/8 5-7pm Artist Talk @5:30pm 🥂

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Installation in progress at the Haldan. So cool to Installation in progress at the Haldan. So cool to be given the opportunity to create a whole experience beyond the finished artworks 🤩 ~ ~ ~ #process #artinstallation #artexhibition #charcoal #artfromtheashes 🔥#tahoeart #caldorfire #healing 🌲
No.1 of 4 new paintings for my solo exhibition ope No.1 of 4 new paintings for my solo exhibition opening on July 8th at the Haldan Gallery, LTCC. Visit www.shelleyzen.us for more details. ~ Hourglass Oil on Linen 18 x 8" ~ ~ #time #light #reflection #caldorfire #artexhibition #thisartistslife #landscapeart #tahoe #christmasvalley
Bittersweet visit to our old bouldering haunt toda Bittersweet visit to our old bouldering haunt today. 🔥 Gathered some charcoal from the remains of the forest, marveled at the trees untouched by fire, and smiled at the wildflowers. 🌸 The landing under one of Taylor’s most atmospheric problems, Cyclogenesis now looks like a medieval torture device. Black Manzanita spikes on a sheer cliff edge. I thank him for not even trying it today. 🌲 #aftermath #healing #reckoning #remembering #caldorfire
Thankyou tahoe_magazine and claire__mcarthur for a Thankyou tahoe_magazine and claire__mcarthur for a beautiful review in the Summer Edition! 🌞🫶🏽. ~ ~ ~ #press #callandresponse #tahoe #artistlife #forest #caldorfire
The light is here ~ ~ ~ ~~~ 💡 #charcoaldrawin The light is here ~ ~ ~ ~~~ 💡 #charcoaldrawing #rayoflight #wildfiresmoke #postivevibes #artfromtheashes🔥
Caldor charcoal drawing no.3 in this series #artf Caldor charcoal drawing no.3 in this series #artfromtheashes🔥
Have you also learned that secret from the river? Have you also learned that secret from the river? That there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean, and in the mountains, everywhere; and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future. ~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha ~ "Leaf Boats" 2022 Oil on Canvas 40 x 40" ~ ~ ~
Making some small drawings for my exhibition this Making some small drawings for my exhibition this summer..thinking of calling them either ‘collection starters’, or ‘Under $500’ in the new online shop I’m building. What do you think? 🤔 #artrepreneur
I can’t believe we’re still having this conver I can’t believe we’re still having this conversation. Get the fuck out of our bodies, patriarchy. You have no right. #nouterusnoopinion #prochoiceisprolife #trustwomen
I’ll be a featured artist & speaker at the Breas I’ll be a featured artist & speaker at the Breast Cancer Action event on June 14th. Drawing the Connections highlights the intersections between art, activism, breast cancer, and social justice - and uplifts art-ivism as a driver of social change. Our virtual art auction and community gathering features a curated collection of pieces that focus on themes of breast cancer, womxn's rights, health justice, and other social justice causes. Breast Cancer Action is a national education, advocacy and activist organization that works to achieve health justice for people at risk of and living with breast cancer. Get tickets: https://www.classy.org/event/drawing-the-connections/e395104
Thankyou rtiashow for selecting my painting to rep Thankyou rtiashow for selecting my painting to represent the Reno Tahoe International Art Show in the latest edition of mountainlivingmag 🙏🏼🎨 ~ “The Lightbearer” Oil on Linen
So proud of my brother sacred_knot_tattoo, appeari So proud of my brother sacred_knot_tattoo, appearing alongside the luminaries of British art such as Anthony Gormley, talking about history and culture in a BBC documentary called ‘Art that Made us’. Check out the first episode that features Sean, called ‘Light in the darkness’ on the bbciplayer ~ #celticart #britisharthistory #ancientart #bronzeageart #proudsister
Proud to be riding the wave of the art revolution Proud to be riding the wave of the art revolution happening in our region. The Reno Tahoe International Art Show will be held this September 8 - 11 and will anchor a citywide celebration of art and design including a music festival, awards ceremony, and a three day long art show kicking off an inaugural celebration of what’s best in contemporary arts & emerging design. Not only will rtiashow be featuring an extensive group of local artists, they’ll also be drawing hundreds of regional, national, and international fine artists at our very own Convention Center 🤩 Tickets will be available soon so keep an eye out and give them a follow to keep up with their latest updates & announcements 👀 ~ Excellent image and words shamelessly stolen from westwardstudio ~ ~ #bettertoapologizethantoaskforpermission #rtiashow #artshow #renotahoe #artfair #tahoeart #plein_air_life #ridethewave #artrevolution #thisartistslife
My exhibition at iamsierraarts will be closed on S My exhibition at iamsierraarts will be closed on Saturday March 19th from 12-2pm for an event. Open from 2-4pm. Sorry about that!🤷‍♀️ ~ "Two Suns" Oil on Linen 40 x 18" ~ ~ #artexhibition #renoart #renoartscene #christmasvalley #tahoeart #artistsoninstagram #womenartists #pleinairpainting #studiopainting #forestbathing #sunset
Meet the Artist 👩‍🎨~ Tomorrow ~ Join me fo Meet the Artist 👩‍🎨~ Tomorrow ~ Join me for a quiet tour of my new exhibition of drawings and paintings inspired by the river and forest we call home. See the art in person, ask me anything, in a beautiful space filled with light. All welcome, all free. Saturday March 12th, 12 - 4pm Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno.
Thankyou snow_kayla of thetahoeweekly! Great piece Thankyou snow_kayla of thetahoeweekly! Great piece, I'm really chuffed 🙂 An honor to share the page with suzanneroberts28 too, whose book launch coincided with my opening so I couldn't go. Read the article online here: https://thetahoeweekly.com/2022/03/art-out-of-the-ashes/
The art has been beautifully installed by Sierra A The art has been beautifully installed by Sierra Arts curator maria_partridge and her technician. Thankyou so much ❤️🙏🏼 We’re ready for Saturday 🍷
The works in this exhibition are dedicated to all The works in this exhibition are dedicated to all beings who lost their homes and lives in the #caldorfire. To all the first responders and firefighters. To the journalists who drove around our neighborhoods filming livestreams while we watched from miles away, terrified. To all who are rebuilding their lives right now. ~ ~ ~ The drawings and paintings contain messages of hope and strength, a ray of light in a dark forest. The proceeds from this catalogue benefit the families of fallen firefighters thewffoundation. ~ ~ ~ Exhibition opens in Reno from March 2nd - 28th 2022, at iamsierraarts Sierra Arts Foundation, 17, S. Virginia St. for in-person, or www.sierra-arts.org for a virtual experience.
Short art film by fabulous filmmaker Eric Minh Swe Short art film by fabulous filmmaker Eric Minh Swenson, directed by Scott Forrest profiling my new drawings and paintings of the Tahoe landscape since the Caldor Fire. 'Call & Response: Visions of the forest after Wildfire' will be opening at Sierra Arts Foundation in Reno on March 5th 2022 from 5-7pm. Link in bio. Thankyou Eric & Scott, you guys are stars 🤩
In a warm but firm rejoinder to a world addicted t In a warm but firm rejoinder to a world addicted to spectacle, Shelley Zentner’s landscapes quietly insist that the most majestic power on Earth is not born of human effort, but instead resides in what the poet Dylan Thomas called “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.” She discovers that force in endless guises in her home territory of the South Lake Tahoe basin — in everything from a pinpoint of sunlight on a leaf to a rainbow of shades in what to a less curious eye is otherwise a nondescript gray rock — and brings it forth in charcoal and oils. ~ ~ ~ She is a Seer in a very real sense, a painter who both discerns with the eye of a shaman and expertly translates for us Nature’s “language” as it governs both the creative and — inevitably — destructive cycles of the forest realm. ~ ~ Proof of the latter cycle arrived recently in the devastating Caldor Fire of summer 2021, which charred both sides of the valley surrounding Shelley’s home. In the aftermath of the fire, Shelley took to long periods of contemplation/creation en plein air, sifting through the ashes in search of meaning, beauty, redemption. ~ The result is “Call and Response.” ~ Words by Rishika Kathleen Stebbins. Read on at www.shelleyzen.us
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