Rena was in town this weekend, along with Christine (converging from both coasts). I first met Rena a while back, at Kent and Christine's wedding. And shortly after that, attended a going-away party for her.

Tonight, she had a solo show at Zg Gallery, entitled It Will Be Enough. I don't profess to fully understand the scope of the project, but overheard Rena talk a bit about her interest with the potato - it's origins, it's role in history, the varied forms it can take. There was a really well-written description at the front desk, and I assumed it would be available online (but it's not).

Here's a portion of her artist's statement:

My interests reside in taking aspects of our familiar surroundings and somehow tweaking or altering them to make them slightly off, uncanny, and perhaps a bit disturbing and unfamiliar. The spaces, architecture, surfaces, and objects of daily living are so familiar they often become as a backdrop, looked beyond and moved past. The quirky sense of aesthetics of the almost accidental placement that occurs in the world we build for ourselves has a sense of comedy and beauty but it is one that is seldom noticed because it is taken as a given.

Christine and Justin.