Renée Bott
About the artist:
Renée Bott’s work is based on minute and detailed lines found in etchings and engravings from the 15th - 17th centuries. She collects her source materials from museums, antique print dealers, and private collections. Bott photographs the prints and uses Photoshop to digitally modify the images, which serve as general outlines for her compositions.
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Renée Bott has always made and worked in art. She worked in fine art print publishing for over thirty years. For the past twenty years, Bott was a founding partner and Master Printer of Paulson Bott Press, a print studio located in Berkeley, California. She published over 500 editions and worked with luminary artists such as Martin Puryear, Kerry James Marshall, and Tauba Auerbach. Bott specialized in facilitating the creation of complex and colorful intaglio prints within a traditional black-and-white medium. In 2016 the archive of Paulson Bott Press was acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Artwork in exhibition:
Renée Bott, Austen’s Garden, 2024, Acrylic on silk with collage and color pencil mounted to canvas, 72 x 60 in., Courtesy of the artist and Seager Gray Gallery