THE POP-UP COLLECTIVE
Jodie Herrera
Jodie Herrera is a Visual Curator and Artist from Taos, New Mexico. Her bloodline has tied her to the land for over 500 hundred years and is of both Spanish and Indigenous decent. Herrera's art and event curating experience began in her early teen years and has been utilized, in her adult years, within the gallery setting as well as in grassroot community environments. She is invested and passionate in seeing the New Mexico art scene develop and thrive.
Art has always been apart of Herrera's life. As an artist, Herrera predominately works in oil painting, but extends herself as an illustrator, muralist and multi-media artist as well. Herrera is known for her semi-photorealistic paintings that focus on the female figure/portrait where she seeks to create a conceptual homage to the female experience. She does this by telling the personal stories of hardship and resurgence of her subjects.
Her artistic skills have been featured in such settings as The Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz, Albuquerque Art and History Museum 516 Gallery etc. Herrera received her BFA with honors from the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Albuquerque N.M. Where she co-curates Pop-Up art exhibits, among other art related events, and works as a precessional artist.
Angie Poynter Rehnberg
Angie Poynter Rehnberg is a full time painter residing in her home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She grew up in Taos, Angel Fire, and lived in Santa Fe for several years while pursuing her studies and professional art career. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of Santa Fe with her BFA in May, 2007 while studying a wide range of disciplines including: studio arts, art history, creative writing, and liberal arts. Her work has been featured in American Art Collector Magazine and she has been in a wide array of group and solo visual art shows since she was fifteen.
Professionally she has also worked in galleries as a director, exhibition and marketing specialist for local and national art fairs including shows such as SOFA Chicago and Art San Diego. Currently she is working collectively as a curator and artist with the Pop-Up Collective.
As a world traveler, her work is often inspired by people, places and the colorful world we live in. She explores her subjects through a variety of representations. Utilizing a wide range of media, painting techniques and stylized interpretations, she is eternally intrigued by color, texture, patterns, and juxtapositions. In her paintings she strives to create a dialog that references culture, media, art, personal history and the history of visual stimulation.
www.angiepoynter.com