Slide 1

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 2

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 3

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 4

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 5

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 6

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 7

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 8

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 9

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 10

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 11

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 12

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 13

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 14

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 15

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 16

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 17

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 18

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 19

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 20

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


Slide 21

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
•

I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

•

I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

•

The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

Continued

-Cheryl Rentie

•

Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

•

Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
•

Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

•

The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
•

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

•

She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

•

In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

•

Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
•

During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

•

The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

•

Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
•

Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

•

Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

•

He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

•

Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

•

Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

•

Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796


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Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Art Promoter

Artist Sampling
Implement fine art exhibitions and expos.

Gallery installations with museum quality presentation for artist and galleries alike.
Provide Artist for specialty art design projects for your architectural needs
(windows, murals, sculptures, etc)

A little About

Cheryl Rentie
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I implement all installations, display and art selection and oversee
all projects with expertise and passion.

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I am pleased to consultant within the fine art world, presenting an
exclusive registry of elite artist for display, exhibitions and expos to
satisfy the art collector's pallet, the set designer’s needs and the
heart of anyone that appreciates the beauty of the arts.

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The experience obtained with 626 Art Gallery while partnering with
renowned artist Charles Bibbs, afforded me a wealth of knowledge
and experience, working with hundreds of artist, creating a registry
of over 2000 for that gallery, hand picked and selected these to
promote in galleries, exhibitions and shows around the world. I am
uniquely qualified

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-Cheryl Rentie

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Named among the Who’s Who
In Black Los Angeles 2008 for
my contributions to the Fine Art
community.

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Excellent gallery installation,
display and has curated some
of the most spectacular art
exhibitions

•

Owned and Operated 626 Art
Gallery for two years partnering
with renowned artist Charles
Bibbs and his wife Elaine.

•

Developed relationship with
artist from all over the nation

•

Mastered the hospitality
industry working for major
upscale hotels in marketing,
sales, event planning,
conventions, restaurants I was
named "Who's Who in Hotels
and Hospitality" in 1993-94

•

Named among only four African
American women to own and
operate an art gallery on the
west coast with success, one of
which was my partner

My artist registrar is hand-picked

• Consist of contemporary and popular artist
• All exhibited in galleries and museums included the
Smithsonian and The Guggenheim
• Artist within my registrar include those with
extraordinary art series, particular themes, as well as
popular and traditional perspectives for Gallery
Exhibitions, Business, Hotels and specialty rooms and
high end suites

Exclusive Artist Registrar
• Donna Angers
• Sharon Louise
Barnes
• Nadine Baurin
• Marlaya Charleston
• Harry Davis
• D.GOTH
• Julia C R Gray
• Paul Houzell

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Alison Howard-Smith
Frank Kelley, Jr
Kenji (Lauren Kenji Tanner)
Duane Paul
Synthia Saint-James
Stella Singleton-Jones
Deborah Amoafo Yeboah

An Artist Sampling
• Introduction of artist with partial
sampling of work follows.
• Includes Brief Bio.
• Detail information on artist is
available

Donna Angers
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Donna Angers (An-Jeers), a
recent Otis graduate at 69
years old. She gained
immediate popularity and
within one year was featured
in more galleries and
museums than some do in a
lifetime. She completed
more paintings in the last
two years than could be
hung in several exhibitions.
She is soon to be featured
in the California African
American Museum

Sharon Louise Barnes

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The art of Sharon Louise Barnes has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and The Republic of
Panama. Her work has been published in the "International Review of African
American Art (Hampton University Museum)" and "El Ruisenor, Especial
Edicion de Artes", and was used on the set of The Jamie Fox television show.
She studied at Otis College of Art & Design and earned her B.A. in
Communications at California State University at Los Angeles.

Nadine Baurin
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A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nadine
expressive candor illustrates subtle influences of
van Gogh, evident in the use of quick, energetic
brushstrokes.

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She is also influenced by de Kooning's gestural
abstraction, characterized by the uninhibited
application of paint to canvas, creating images
that are charged with boldness, energy and
emotion.

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In 1991 Nadine passed the Cambridge 'O' Levels
Art with Distinction and in 1992 she relocated to
the U.S. where she received her B.A. in Fine
Arts.

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Nadine is greatly inspired by her travels
throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Most recently she traveled to Buenos Aires,
Argentina where she studied under
internationally exhibiting artist Eduardo Cervera

Marlaya Charleston
• Graduate of Parsons School
of Design and acquired a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the School of Visual
Arts. Her influences are
African art and the works of
Matisse, the German
expressionist Kokoshka and
the sculpture of Giacometti.
• She has also had a career
as a stand up comedianne,
performance poet and
actress

Harry Davis
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During the past twenty years, Harry
L. Davis has emerged as one of
America's most accomplished artists.
Blessed with natural ability, Davis is a
self-taught artist who began drawing
and sketching as a child in
Wilmington, NC. He turned to oil
painting as a means of expression
after an accidental shooting in 1970,
while serving with the 82nd Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army.

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The piece is from his African/Ethnic
series, He also has a series a Music,
Sports, Landscapes/Seascapes and a
Religious Series represented below.

D. GOTH
• In 1998 she developed "Hearts of
Stone", an art company that
incorporates her painting techniques
on mosaic style tiles and stone.
• In 2000 d.goth merged her Hearts of
Stone style with other subject
matter, introducing her
'contemporary fresco' work.
• d.goth works in watercolor, pastel
and acrylic on various mediums but
is primarily recognized for her
contemporary fresco work

Julia C R Gray

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Julia is well represented through the world. She creates spectacular art
series such as The Shoe Series, The Red Shoe Series, and the Garden
Goddess Series easily enhances an interior designers theme

•

Artist Statement: “The motive for my work remains the same whether the
subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to
become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world. And to share the
joy I experience bringing these benevolent beings to life through delicious
color and rhythmic paint strokes”

Paul A. Houzell

Paul is one of the greatest Realist Artist of
our time. The piece below is a self portrait.
He is Degreed in Art and Art History and his
art has been shown Internationally,
including Brazil and Africa. The florals are
a part of a series of oils. Paul has an
African Culture Series and a jazz series
saluting past and current greats.

Artist Statement: My body of work includes
paintings of landscapes, plants, and fauna
and consistently focuses on figurative art
for the reason that the body is the best
vehicle for communicating ideas that heal
and lift human spirits.

Alison HowardSmith
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Alison's keen vision, creative drive
and modern advances, added extra
fuel to the spark and thus begin her
dedication to quilting as a means of
conveying culture and AfricanAmerican history.

Alison’s quilts have been exhibited at
The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, 626 Art Gallery in downtown
Los Angeles and The Forest Lawn
Museum’s Martin Luther King
Celebration. One of her quilts was
even chosen as a presentation to the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Major
Villagarosa.
Alison's quilts are infused with three
dimensional texture, unusual fabrics
and ethnic themes. She creates a
series of quilts for large wall hangings,
Masks mounted on stands, and a
series of textured vases, in the homes
of many art collectors

Frank Kelley, Jr

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Born and raised in North Central Louisiana, Frank’s
colors weave their way across trademark rag paper as
the master storyteller creates a world in which the
observer becomes a participant. The viewer transfixes
himself in the story, closely relating to elements both
obvious and subtle in each painting. Frank Kelley, Jr's.,
paintings interpret real stories motivated by true-life
situations.

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He founded a youth artist initiative program in 2001 to
give youth the options to succeed through art by
utilizing the life and paintings of my work. He still
operates that program today.

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Shown are pieces that represent his Culture series,
Landscape series and his Abstract series.

Lauren

“KENJI”

Tanner

Kenji’s professional career spans over two
decades. Her work recognizes the natural
and spiritual development of an inborn
talent. Her paintings illustrate the diversity
and development of an artistic vision.
She has done numerous commissions, the most
recent for BMG music Distribution for
Motown's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
You are viewing Day Dreamer and featured is
her latest piece, Inner Sanctuary

Duane Paul
Sculptor, abstract painter and
graduate of Otis Parsons,
1991, Duane Paul is a sought
after artist from New York to
California.
Artist Statement: My art-making
practice attempts to
destabilize our cultural
assumptions about the male
body and its uses as an
instrument of sexual pleasure
and desire. My work reinscribes the male body in
ways historically relegated to
the female. In reversing
traditional binary oppositions
posited as male/femaleactive/passive,
impenetrable/penetrable,
hard/soft, giving/receiving-I
offer a way into the “gated”
male body thereby shifting
the psychoanalytic structure
and problematizing sexual
identity.

Synthia Saint James

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Synthia is one of the most popular
African American Artist best known for
her simplistic strokes, cluster of
figures and bright colors representing
family, diversity, culture.

•

Her architectural designs include a
150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario
international airport, elevator doors
for California’s State Capitol’s East
End Complex, stained glass windows
for the West Tampa Library in Tampa,
Florida, and a 4x7 foot ceramic tile
mural commissioned by Gibson, Dunn,
Crutcher LLP for Cowan Elementary
School in Westchester, California.

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Her Landscape series is exploding on
the market and is perfect for hotels
and restaurants alike.

Stella Singleton-Jones
• Stella does electrifying and
expressive sculptures. The
stunning colors in her stone and
marble pieces are bold, bright,
strong and powerful. These
sculptures are made and built
to last a lifetime, establishing
the sculptures different and
unique from the rest.
• Artist Statement: I believe my
passion, creativity, and strength
is fueled by the world’s color,
harmony and love, but, the love
and support from family and
friends allows, me to be
confident in my ideas and
unlimited in my creativity, all of
which I give God the credit and
the praise!

DeBorah Amoafo Yeboah
•

Yeboah has become an expert at
using fabric as her medium to
create a masterpiece on her
textured canvas. Her most recent
piece hangs at the Harvard Law
Institute in honor of our 44th
President, Barrack Obama.

Cheryl Rentie
Art Curator and Promoter

Cheryl Rentie
P.O. Box 40011, Long
Beach, CA 90804
[email protected]
www.cherylrentie.com
(213) 479-2796