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Featured Artists Exhibit Schedule Gallery Info Travelling Shows Orders & Inquiries Caring for Prints Directions & Map Related Links Privacy Policy Site Map Home Are you looking for a specific artist? Our web gallery is growing by the day. We may have your artist available. Please call for additional info! 707.875.2922 At the western end of Sonoma county, the Ren Brown Collection is a long-established and well-respected art gallery. Opened in early 1990, it is conveniently located on Coast Highway One at the northern end of Bodega Bay. Housed in a refurbished building with shoji and a small, serene Japanese garden, the gallery is dedicated to showing contemporary art from both sides of the Pacific Ocean. A major focus of the gallery is on modern Japanese prints by living artist, including Toko Shinoda , Ryohei Tanaka , Yuji Hiratsuka , Iwao Akiyama , and others. Many have works included in the collections of prominent museums, and have been exhibited world-wide. Some of this artwork can be found nowhere else in northern California. The original prints are done in traditional woodblock, as well as more Occidental mediums, such as serigraphy, etching, stencil, and lithography--often on fine handmade papers. Subjects and themes vary widely, and images are both abstract and representational. Regional artists of Northern California ( Micah Schwaberow , John Chambers , Robert Devee , Christopher Dewees , Noriko Hasegawa , and others) are also featured at the Ren Brown Collection. Works include sculpture, watercolors, woodcuts, acrylic paintings, serigraphs, monotypes, handmade paper, baskets, original jewelry and ceramics. In addition, the gallery features a varied selection of antique Japanese furnishings--tansu chests, step chests, trunks and more. Address: 1781 Highway One, Bodega Bay. Hours: Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 to 5, closed Monday & Tuesday. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 156, Bodega Bay, CA 94923. Phone: (707) 875-2922 E-mail: rbc4art@renbrown.com ABOUT REN BROWN Interest in the Far East has long been a part of founder Ren Brown's life. A third generation Japanophile, he lived in Tokyo as a child, and has made numerous trips ever since. His first exhibit of contemporary Japanese prints was held while a college student in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in the mid 1960's. In 1980 Ren established Anshin Art as a part-time business located in Berkeley and devoted exclusively to Japanese prints. When his former partner decided she no longer had time to devote to the project, Robert DeVee joined Ren Brown, and the idea of a full-time gallery along the Sonoma Coast began to gel. Since establishing this gallery Ren has given talks at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and offered instruction to various art and civic groups as well as college classes about the contemporary print movement in Japan. He continues to make frequent trips to Japan to discover new artists. ABOUT ROBERT DeVEE Robert DeVee has been a successful painter for over twenty-five years. Since traveling to Japan and learning of the contemporary print movement, he has also begun to do monotypes and serigraphs. Ren and Robert chose the Bodega Bay area because of a longtime love for the ocean and for Sonoma County. Finding that Bodega Bay offered a convenient location with ready public access, the two co-owners set about remodeling an existing older building. Ren's childhood friend Halcyon Campoamor and her husband Roberto, who are now architects in Berkeley, designed the renovations. They successfully incorporated Japanese design elements into the plans and have made the space particularly conducive for looking at fine art. OUR ARCHITECTS Do you love the design of our gallery and home?? CAMPOAMOR is a design-oriented architectual firm based in the SF Bay Area, the result of a long-standing collaboration between Roberto and Halcyon Campoamor. Their background in art, architecture and construction enables them to bring an unusual breadth of experience to each project. Their designs are clear and sensuous, bringing out the unique opportunities of each location and context. The Ren Brown Collection Gallery Contemporary Japanese Prints, California Artists & Sculptors, Antique Japanese Furnishings 1781 Coast Highway One, Bodega Bay, CA 94923 USA (707)875-2922 URL: www.renbrown.com All rights reserved, Copyright � 1999 - 2008 E-mail: rbc4art@renbrown.com

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