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Twinkie art on display in Reno

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The Sierra Arts Foundation presents the work of Twinkie artist Nancy Peppin in its gallery at 17 South Virginia St., #120, Reno from May 28 to June 27, 2013, with an artist reception on Friday, June 7 from 5-7pm. In this exhibition, “The Steampunk Machines of Cmdr. T.T. Kidd: Steam Twink”, Commander T. T. Kidd demonstrates the use of the Twinkie in a full range of 19th-century futurist mechanisms, each presented in context before a representative watercolor of its environment. The real Twinkies used in the mixed media pieces were purchased on the day that the Hostess Company announced it was going out of business – November 16, 2012.
Nancy Peppin is a watercolor painter, known for her images of Twinkies in history and in images of the Nevada landscape. She also paints still-lifes of the contents of drawers, closets, refrigerators and other containers. Over the years, Peppin has been a painting and drawing instructor in the art departments at TMCC and UNR, and taught painting and drawing at the Nevada Museum of Art and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She is a video graphics designer and video game animator at International Game Technology in Reno.
In 1992, she painted five public art murals, titled Back Rooms of Reno Museums, commissioned by the City of Reno Redevelopment Commission, each 11’x6′, that were used to cover the ground floor of the Riverside Hotel (Sierra Arts’s lofts and office) building for several years. In 2001, she painted the poster for the Great Reno Balloon Race. Ms. Peppin has exhibited paintings for more than 30 years in the northern Nevada area and has paintings and commissions in many collections and currently has a piece in the “Wally’s World exhibit at the Sparks Heritage Museum.

 

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