Fred Rinne
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Fred Rinne is an American visual and performance artist. His cross disciplinary approach, outsider aesthetic and overriding cultural critique defines his work.
"As an American I feel that I have grown up bathed in pop schlock against my will. It was always the background noise of my culture... Instead of a real culture where songs actually mean something, we have this junk culture of entertainment working on the principle of planned obsolescence. We don't have to eat the same hamburgers, listen to the same music, or see the same images. I struggle for a world where every man can be his own Manilow."
Born in Crescent City, CA, Rinne grew up in California
, settling in 1980 in San Francisco. He studied theater arts and art in Modesto, Sacramento, and San Francisco, ending up with a science degree in Environmental Studies from San Francisco State University.
He began showing his paintings and sculptures in the 1980s, and has exhibited at The LAB
, Show and Tell Gallery, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Z Gallerie, and the Endeavor House in London, England.
Rinne’s graphics and articles have appeared in San Francisco Bay Area publications Frank, Processed World, Filth, Weekly Weird News, Flatter, and the Anderson Vallley Advertiser, as well as Le Dernier Cri in Marseilles, France.
In 1985, Rinne co-founded the sound performance group National Disgrace, and later the Bringdownz. These groups performed at Artists' Television Access
, the Great American Music Hall and other Bay Area venues.
Rinne began to produce artist books around 2000, including “Santa Christ,” “Temp Worker,” and “Ice Cream Bummer.”
He has collaborated on books with Marshall Weber, Scott Williams
, and Dana Smith, and exhibited at the San Francisco Center for the Book
, Booklyn Book Arts Salon, and other venues. His original, hand painted books are owned by the Pompidou Center, Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxemburg, Kunstbibliotek, Berlin, Germany, as well as many universities and other collections in the United States.
"As an American I feel that I have grown up bathed in pop schlock against my will. It was always the background noise of my culture... Instead of a real culture where songs actually mean something, we have this junk culture of entertainment working on the principle of planned obsolescence. We don't have to eat the same hamburgers, listen to the same music, or see the same images. I struggle for a world where every man can be his own Manilow."
Born in Crescent City, CA, Rinne grew up in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, settling in 1980 in San Francisco. He studied theater arts and art in Modesto, Sacramento, and San Francisco, ending up with a science degree in Environmental Studies from San Francisco State University.
He began showing his paintings and sculptures in the 1980s, and has exhibited at The LAB
The LAB
The LAB, located in San Francisco's historic Redstone Building, is a not-for-profit arts organization and performance space founded in 1984.The Lab "supports interdisciplinary artists in the development and exhibition of new visual, media, literary, and performing art, with a focus on emerging and...
, Show and Tell Gallery, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Z Gallerie, and the Endeavor House in London, England.
Rinne’s graphics and articles have appeared in San Francisco Bay Area publications Frank, Processed World, Filth, Weekly Weird News, Flatter, and the Anderson Vallley Advertiser, as well as Le Dernier Cri in Marseilles, France.
In 1985, Rinne co-founded the sound performance group National Disgrace, and later the Bringdownz. These groups performed at Artists' Television Access
Artists' Television Access
Artists' Television Access is a non-profit art gallery and screening venue in San Francisco's Mission District in the United States of America. ATA exhibits work by emerging, independent and experimental artists in its theatre and gallery space as well as on its weekly Public-access television...
, the Great American Music Hall and other Bay Area venues.
Rinne began to produce artist books around 2000, including “Santa Christ,” “Temp Worker,” and “Ice Cream Bummer.”
He has collaborated on books with Marshall Weber, Scott Williams
Scott Williams (artist)
Scott Williams is an American artist best known for his work with stencils.Williams was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Santa Barbara. He began painting with watercolor in high school, and studied art and anthropology at Santa Barbara City College, Cabrillo College, and Sonoma...
, and Dana Smith, and exhibited at the San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco Center for the Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch in San Francisco, California in the United States...
, Booklyn Book Arts Salon, and other venues. His original, hand painted books are owned by the Pompidou Center, Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxemburg, Kunstbibliotek, Berlin, Germany, as well as many universities and other collections in the United States.
External links
- Booklyn http://www.booklyn.org/artists/Fred%20Rinne,%20San%20Francisco,%20California.php
- Fred Rinne on Flicker http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredrinne/sets/