Train 'Round the Bend

T. Renner; "Train 'Round the Bend;" 2017; ink, graphite, charcoal on paper; 4" x 6".

I Found A Reason

T. Renner; "I Found A Reason;" 2017; ink, graphite, charcoal on paper; 4" x 6".

Lonesome Cowboy Bill

T. Renner; "Lonesome Cowboy Bill;" 2017; ink, graphite, charcoal on paper;" 4" x 6".

Head Held High

T. Renner; "Head Held High;" 2017; graphite, ink, charcoal on paper; 4" x 6".

New Age

T. Renner; "New Age;" 2017; ink, pencil, charcoal on paper;" 4" x 6".

Cool It Down

T. Renner; "Cool It Down;" 2017, ink, charcoal on paper; 4" x 6".

Rock & Roll

"Rock & Roll;" 2017; pen, charcoal on paper; 4" x 6".

Sweet Jane

"Sweet Jane;" 2017; ink, charcoal on paper; 4" x 6"

Who Loves the Sun?

"Who Loves the Sun?;" 2017; pen, pencil, charcoal on paper; 4" x 6".

First in a series of ten drawings titled after songs on the Velvet Underground's album Loaded.

"We Are So Stupid; We All Dream" (For Richard Butler)

T. Renner, "We Are So Stupid; We All Dream (for Richard Butler)," 2010, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

"We Are So Stupid; We All Dream" is one of three paintings named after lyrics in three Psychedelic Furs songs by Richard Butler. The St. Louis rock group Bunnygrunt has recorded a song called "More Loves Than Stupids," based on the observation that Richard Butler used the word "love" more often than the word "stupid" on the debut Psychedelic Furs album. He also used the word "dream" frequently, as well, teaming it with "stupid."

Phoenix

T. Renner, "Phoenix," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Cross #6

T. Renner, "Cross #6," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Cross #5

T. Renner, "Cross #5," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Cross #4

T. Renner, "Cross #4," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Cross #3

T. Renner, "Cross #3," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Cross #2

T. Renner, "Cross #2," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Cross #1

T. Renner, "Cross #1," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6"

Untitled

T. Renner, "Untitled," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Untitled

T. Renner, "Untitled," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Untitled "X"

T. Renner, "Untitled 'X'," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Untitled "X"

T. Renner, "Untitled 'X'," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

Landscape (Laumeier) #21

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #21," 2016, acrylic on paper, 3.5" x 5".

Landscape (Laumeier) #20

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #20, 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #19

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #19," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #18

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #18," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #17

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #17," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #16

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #16," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4"

Landscape (Laumeier) #15

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #15," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #14

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #14," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #13

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #13," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #12

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #12," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Laumeier (Landscape) #11

T. Renner, "Laumeier (Landscape) #11," 2016, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

David Bowie 1947-2016

T. Renner, "Weeping Wall," 2010, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".


T. Renner, "Warszawa," 2010, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".


T. Renner, "Art Decade," 2010, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".


T. Renner, "Subterraneans, 2010, acrylic on paper, 4" x 6".

These four paintings were made in response to the four lyric-less pieces on David Bowie's album Low. I had been reading Hugo Wilcken's 33 1/3 book on the making of Low and set out to try to capture some of the feeling of the songs.

Landscape (Laumeier) #10

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #10," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #9

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #9," 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #8

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #8, 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #7

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #7, 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #6

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #6, 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #5

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #5, 2016, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #4

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #4," 2015, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #3

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #3, 2015, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #2

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #2," 2015, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Landscape (Laumeier) #1

T. Renner, "Landscape (Laumeier) #1," 2015, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

R.I.P. Lemmy of Motorhead

T. Renner, "Bombers (for Huck and Lemmy)," 2010, acrylic, ink on paper, 18" x 18"

Elvis

T. Renner, "Elvis," 2015, acrylic on paper, 3" x 5".

X

T. Renner, "X," 2015, acrylic on paper, 10" x 7".

Improvisation for Ornette Coleman #4

T. Renner, "Improvisation for Ornette Coleman #4," 2009, oil on canvas, 18" x 24".

Ben Ratliff writes in today's New York Times:

"Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 85.

"The cause was cardiac arrest, a representative of the family said. 

"Mr. Coleman widened the options in jazz and helped change its course. Partly through his example in the late 1950s and early ’60s, jazz became less beholden to the rules of harmony and rhythm, and gained more distance from the American songbook repertoire. His own music, then and later, became a new form of highly informed folk song: deceptively simple melodies for small groups with an intuitive, collective language, and a strategy for playing without preconceived chord sequences."