statement

Ronnie Genotti

It’s human nature to rush to categorize and explain everything we encounter, so it's a supreme irony that we experience reality only through our own perception, subjective and unreliable. That is what I try to capture with my art.

Memories haunt us like rocks in our shoes, glue us to our past, and shape our future. Yet memories are unstable. Time distorts them and emotion warps them until we can no longer distinguish what actually happened from what we've constructed. When our remembering diverges so far from the original event, does the "true" version even matter anymore? Was there ever even a "true" version?

My work tries to find the beauty in the in-between spaces, between memory and reality. I pin them down, ike butterflies pinned to a board, so they can be examined, felt, and perhaps freed of their power over us.

Education

California College of the Arts Continuing Education

San Francisco Art Institute Continuing Education
UC Berkeley Art Extension Program

University of Michigan, MBA

University of Michigan, BA

Publications

Dwell, private residence in Woodside, May 2020

LUXE, private residence in Woodside, November 2019

Interiors, private residence in San Francisco, November 2019

Interiors, private residence in San Francisco, July 2019

PALM magazine, private residence in Honolulu, December 2018

LUXE, private residence in Hillsborough, December 2017

40 Years of Fabulous, The Kips Bay Decorator Show House, by Steven Stolman, April 2015

C Magazine, Hotel Paradox, Santa Cruz, April 2013
Interiors magazine, private residence in San Francisco, August-September 2010

Shows

Wessling Contemporary, January 2025

Radian Gallery, San Francisco, May 2024

Radian Gallery, San Francisco, May, Dec 2023

Agora Gallery, New York, Dec 2022

Radian Gallery, San Francisco Dec 2022

San Francisco Art Institute, Juried Exhibition 2016

San Francisco Open Studios

Collections

In addition to private collections:

ODADA, San Francisco

Paradox Hotel, Santa Cruz, CA

Park Lane, Honolulu, HI