The Work
In the works
Films
- Portland Meadows
- SF HITCH
- Charismatic Megafauna
- Mighty Tacoma
- FULL ON LOG JAM
- Woodswoman
- Babyman
- Little White Horse
- Portrait #3: House of Sound
- Red Stallions Revenge
- Portrait #2: Trojan
- Lure
- Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal
- Britton, South Dakota
- 9 is a secret
- Westward Ho
- Richart
- Satan's Holiday
- The Ugly Movie
- Yawn
- The Yodeling Lesson
- Olympia
- Mine
- Food is a Weapon
- Crowdog
- Warning
- U.C.A. Box
- Worse
- Random Union
- Rube Ranch
- Toxic Shock
- Fatal Plus
Installations
- Medusa Smack
- flat as a board (knot)
- Longhorn
- The Dirt Bird
- Zoobomb Pyle
- The House of Sound
- Nice Package
- Lovejoy Lost
- Hope and Prey
- Patriot Act
- Rising Up
- Hunting Requires Optimism
- Drivers Lounge
- Rubberneck
- Clearcut
- The Yodeling Lesson Installation
- A Nice Ass
- Below
- Ring
Photography
Books
Curation
- A Natural Selection
- Hunker Down To Rise Above
- Stumptown Sap
- Follow Me To Certain Death
- The Hunt
- DeComposer
- Beamsplitters
Tours
Stencils
Richart
video 23 minutes 2001
score by The Topiary Kings
co-directed with Dawn Smallman
A tour through the mind of obsessive collagist and front yard artist Richard Tracy. While confined to a psychiatric ward at age 50, "Richart" Tracy made
this discovery: "If you want to get out of the hospital - start making
art like this. They will get rid of you - fast!" Seventeen years
later, he's turned three residential lots into a massive black and
white maze of his visions. This documentary takes a trip through his
yard, art, methods and his mind. Wait until you see what he keeps in
his basement!
"This time Vanessa Renwick's search for the ultimate freakishness of real-life has hit the motherlode- and transcended. "Richart" is a hugely engrossing portrait of an artist whose brilliant eccentricities and habitual art-making resound with chilling depth and awesome, reverberant beauty."
Todd Haynes
AWARDS
2009 Fargo Film Festival - Honorable Mention : Documentary Short
Microcinefest 2002- Grand Jury Award: Best Documentary
NW Film & Video Festival 2002 "Best of Festival" touring show
2nd Place
Black Maria Film & Video Festival 2002
1st Place
Peripheral Produce Invitationals 2001
