In person / Workshop / Textile Collage
Celebrating New York Textile Month, Paula Rennis is excited to host an innovative workshop of fashion sketching with a twist.
Exploring textile possibilities using collage techniques with image, paper, acrylics, markers and fabric. Paula will guide you to the process.
Argentinean by nature New Yorker by heart, Maria Paula Rennis came to New York on a Fulbright Scholarship to complete her master’s degree in package design from Pratt Institute. During that time she started studying painting at The Art Students League of NY and discovered her love of figurative paining. She came to create a new vocabulary for one’s perception of the human form. This is a perception that abstracts the figure into the elements of color, light, shadow and movement in a superlative yet harmonious way.
Looking at fashion magazines she dove into collage dressing models with her “textiles"" of acrylic, paper, markers and tape, creating outfits with bright personality and unique patterns.
Conveying what she would like to buy and not what brands want to sell to her.
She re-fashions the fashion magazines one page at a time.
Not afraid to reframe the familiar, she seeks to challenge the viewer’s perspective of the human form and its relationship to the known.
She worked as Packaging Designer for well known cosmetic brands, taught Graphic and Packaging Design at CUNY. Teaches Art privately and exhibits art publicly.
She was interview by Communication Arts Magazine and PSWT Artists.