Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Gray Finder  oil on panel 16"x20"	Santa Clara University, California January 9 - February 5th Reception: Thursday February 2, 2012  5PM-7PM Unfortunately the art building does not have a physical street address.  It is located on the Alameda, at the intersection of Bellomy St, Park Ave, and the Alameda.  If you look on google maps, the building name is visible there.	Here are two of the books that were designed as catalogs.  (Click the book for a preview.)
Ginger Bread 10"x8" oil paint on canvas panel	Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento California  February 4th - March 1st, 2012. Reception: Saturday February 11th  6PM-9PM 4749 J. Street Sacramento, CA 95819 Phone (916) 736-1429
Phil A. Buster oil on masonite panel 10"x8"	Ohlone College, Fremont California  February 7th -  March 9th Reception, Saturday, February 25, 2012  6PM - 8PM Louie Meager Art Gallery  in the Smith Center at Ohlone College, 43600 Mission Blvd. Fremont, California 94539

Stories will be published in a vintage style  newspaper catalog and the gallery will be converted into a 1930 or 40's cabaret set and students will be acting the stories out as monologues at some of the events at the college in the art gallery.

You could win a drawing of your own in exchange for a piece of flash fiction!

Renovated Reputations is the result of an internet blogging project in which paintings and assemblages based on vintage and antique vernacular photography are the inspiration for short fiction.  The blog, which gets between one hundred to two hundred and fifty visitors a day, is the nexus point.  Each week between seven to ten authors from the U.S. and U.K. submitted short fiction of one thousand words or less compete to win an original work of art that is the basis for the story.  The stories and assemblages are then coupled with great graphic design and photo illustration to create an environment that compliment the two.

The catalog is a collaborative joint between myself, an artist with a national reputation and proven track record.  (I’m also a professor of Art and Art History at Ohlone College in Fremont where I also am the director of the Louie Meager Art Museum)

So far the authors are a dirty dozen or so such as author professor Mark Brosamer,  mystery writer Matt O'Malley, pulp author Steven D. Rogers of PulpFest fame, Dreamworks animator/cartoonist Brian Newlin, columnist Gigi De Vault and others. 

http://kenney-mencher.blogspot.com/

We're going to have a photobooth for the show for participants to play with and vintage costumes. 

Of course I'll send the authors free copies of the catalogs.

I may also print an illustrated monograph that will include some of the stories and pictures.

Sincerely (I mean it!)

Kenney Mencher