Artist Statement

Georgia Ranney was born in 1952 in Detroit, Michigan.  She received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1980 and a MFA from the University of Michigan in 1983.  While a student at Michigan she studied painting with Gerome Kamrowski, a New York artist with the surrealist movement of William Baziotes in New York in the 1940's.

In 1985 she left Ann Arbor to travel for a year with her husband, Lee, and eventually settled in Willow Bend, West Virginia, where they began farming.  They developed a working cattle farm with a herd of angus cows
and calves.  Throughout the time she lived in West Virginia, she exhibited her artwork at the David L. Dickirson Fine Arts Gallery, Tamarack, Beckley, West Virginia, participating in two group shows a year. In 2004 they moved to Columbia County, New York, to the Kinderhook Farm where they continue to farm concentrating on grass-fed
beef and free-range laying hens.

The horses, chickens and cows in her monotypes are inspired by the animals living here on the Kinderhook Farm.  The images are developed from drawings and photographs which are then painted onto plates and run
through a press so that each image is unique.

Bio

1952    Born in Detroit, Michigan
1980    BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1983    MFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1986    Began a cattle farm in Willow Bend, West Virginia
2004    Moved to Columbia County, New York, to Kinderhook Farm

Studies:
1998    Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia
       Jack Beal and Sondra Freckelton, Figure Drawing, Watercolor,
Composition

1998    Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
       The Walter Gropius Masters Workshop
       Susan Shatter, Watercolor

1999    Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, Michigan
       School of the Art Institue of Chicago
       Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, Traditional Woodblock Printing

1999    Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
       The Walter Gropius Masters Workshop
       Wade Schuman, Grisaille and Dead Palette Painting

2006    Zea Mays Printmaking, Massachusetts
       Amaryllis Siniossoglou, Relief Printmaking from Digital Images

2007    Columbia County, New York
Holly Hughes,  Associate Professor, Painting, Rhode Island School of
Design
Printmaking Workshop

2007    Columbia County, New York
       Catherine Mosely, Master Printmaker
       Monotype Workshop

Contact

lranney@earthlink.net
518-303-1959

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