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ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger

September Exhibit - September 4-September 30, 2007

Featured Artists

Jordanne Renner & Sonsearay Grady

Jordanne Renner

I began my journey at the Rhode Island School of Design in September of 1999; and in 2000 decided that photography was the path I should take rather than apparel design. While at RISD, I took several Liberal Arts courses at Brown University and various Studio Arts courses abroad at SACI in Florence, Italy. I had two phenomenal internships in the 'Big Apple', and also became involved with a community-teaching program. I entitled it "Photography and the Visual Diary" at a local life skills center in Cranston, Rhode Island after my return from Italy my junior year. The program was meant to influence young adults/adolescents by developing an alternative form of expression rather than voicing their frustrations, thoughts, etc., through violence, drugs, gangs. It was a success with a gallery exhibit at RISD at the end of the term.

After graduating from RISD, I became the substitute for the Arts Department in my local secondary school district; and until recently, I was teaching/assisting in photography at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy. During this time, I began to explore landscapes (and who wouldn't with Tuscany as your backdrop) and the various ways of navigating my experiences. Thus, the "Reconstructed Landscape" collective images were born with my hunger to portray the environment I experienced daily in a diarist form.

Italy was the first place that I showed my work in galleries outside of college life. Now I have returned to the U.S. of A. and continue to shoot and show my work in galleries across the country. This body continues to evolve as I collect new experiences; and ultimately they will become an installation environment so the viewer is encompassed with the space.

-Jordanne Renner

Jordanne Renner's exhibit includes the following:

Bridge of Sighs $750
Burano $750
Burano-6 $200
Burano-7 $200
Chianti $750
Fiesole Monestary $750
Goodale Park $400
La Coste Lavendar $750
Limoncello $750
Murano $750
Panzano $750
Portofino $200
Sand Dunes Gran Canaria $200
Sun Bathers $200
Venice-4 $750
Vernazza $750
Vinci $200

Sonsearay Grady

Sonsearay Grady has been a long time resident of Pickaway County. She graduated from Westfall Highschool in 1994 and will be graduating from Ohio State University at the end of fall quarter in December 2007. She has earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in drawing and painting. In addition to the B.F.A., she also earned a minor in Art History with a concentration in Modern Art. Throughout her four years at OSU, she hasa won numerous scholarships including the Mortar Board Honor Society and the Critical Difference for Women Re-entry scholarship. She also took 1st place at The Pump House Center for the Arts, in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Sonsearay is currently researching and writing grants for an internship at Roy G Biv, a gallery in the Short North Gallery district, in Columbus, Ohio, where, on the first Saturday of the month, "The Gallery Hop" makes Columbus' art district feel like NYC.

Having experimented and worked with all mediums and subject matter, Sonsearay continues to return to the human figure. Her thesis exhibition this December will contain portrait work of other artists who have helped to define the Columbus art scene. She allows the energy of each artist to be expressed with color and motion. She has also been working with memory and perception and how they effect our understanding of the world today.

After graduation, Sonsearay plans to continue to work with the human figure, with a concentration on the portraiture. She is in the process of setting up a new studio and gallery space in the historic 2nd Street in Chillicothe, Ohio. Sonsearay hopes to eventually teach her love and passion for the arts to others.

Sonsearay Grady's exhibit includes the following:

Circleville, Ohio $275
Dancer #2 $150
Dancer #3 $225
Deny $625
In My View $725
Jen & Marc Anthony $325
Jen Gillette $275
Melissa Martel-McConnell $750
Mike Bontempo $375
My Own Cycle $375
Perfect Blue Buildings Columbus, Ohio $275
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not $675
Study of Davinci's Leda $425
Tiffany $375
Tulips $275
Untitled $225

The art gallery at Berger Hospital is the result of a partnershup between ArtsaRound and Berger Health System. ArtsaRound is a community based organization dedicated to supporting art and artists in Pickaway County and the regional area. Berger Health System is a community based health care system dedicated to providing quality care so that people do not need to travel outside of their own backyard to have their health care needs met.

The mission of the ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger is to foster the relationship between art and healing by providing a venue for artists, primarily from, but not limited to, Pickaway County and the regional area, to offer their work for the aesthetic pleasure of patients, visitors, and staff. The initiatives of this unique program also contribute to the success of Berger Hospital's mission "to be the best community hospital in the State of Ohio."

If you would like more information about the ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger, are interested in purchasing art, or are an artist interested in displaying your original art for sale, please contact:

Amy J. Cooper, MSMC
Business Relations and Services Representative
Berger Health Systems Business Development
Office: 740.420.8487
Pager: 877.802.2571
Cell: 740.412.2088
amy.cooper@bergerhealth.com