With an energetic application of paint, Ronnie Genotti works to capture raw expressions of what he has seen and felt, experiences that are stones in our souls and have come to shape our lives. Experiences that are confused by memory yet still glue us to points in our past. His objective is to get these memories out into the world, pin them like butterflies to a board, so that we can examine them on our own terms and no longer on theirs.
Genotti is not necessarily expecting the viewer to understand the references behind a particular piece (what it’s “about”) but rather hopes they’ll grok, wholly and deeply, the emotional landscape of the images to apply to their own imperfect existences.
Although the subject matter may be based on internal reference points, experience is secondary to the decisions Genotti makes when constructing the image: choices of color, line, volume, and application. That is to say, the relationship among artist, subject, and image is my predominant concern.
Exhibitions:
Radian Gallery, San Francisco, May 2024
Radian Gallery, San Francisco, May, Dec 2023 Group Show
Agora Gallery, New York, Dec 2022 Group Show
Radian Gallery, San Francisco Dec 2022 Group Show
San Francisco Art Institute, Juried Exhibition 2016
San Francisco Open Studios
Collections:
Various private collections
ODADA, San Francisco
Paradox Hotel, Santa Cruz
Park Lane, Honolulu
Education:
California College of the Arts
San Francisco Art Institute
UC Berkeley Art Extension Program
University of Michigan BA, MBA