Impressionist Alexandre Renoir, great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, joins renowned “Ocean Artist” Julie Siracusa for limited showcase at Park West Gallery in SoHo

Impressionist Alexandre Renoir, great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, joins renowned “Ocean Artist” Julie Siracusa for limited showcase at Park West Gallery in SoHo

Renoir and Siracusa to showcase their original works at Park West Gallery’s flagship location in SoHo, beginning Saturday, June 21, 2025

Park West Gallery has announced impressionist Alexandre Renoir, great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, will join renowned “Ocean Artist” Julie Siracusa for a limited showcase at Park West Gallery in the heart of SoHo. Known for their masterful use of color, texture, and movement, Renoir and Siracusa have featured their beautifully unique and distinctive works around the world.

Featuring dozens of original works from throughout their accomplished careers, Alexandre Renoir and Julie Siracusa will be on display at Park West Gallery’s SoHo location in New York City, beginning Saturday, June 21, 2025.

Alexandre Renoir was born in the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer on July 7, 1974. Cagnes-sur-Mer is a lush urban settlement located in the Côte d’Azur in southern France. Alexandre’s hometown was also the retreat and final home of his famed great-grandfather, French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Alexandre bases his style in Impressionism, a style his ancestor helped innovate, but his style and technique departs from that of his great-grandfather. Whereas Pierre-Auguste captured French lifestyle, culture, and landscape in his intricate works, Alexandre’s approach focuses on looser, nature-inspired compositions. Pierre-Auguste joked that a palette knife is only good for cleaning a palette. Alexandre, on the other hand, exclusively paints with palette knives, going so far as to design custom knives to achieve the effects he desires. Instead of mixing his paints on a palette, Alexandre prefers to mix his paint directly on the canvas. The technique produces vibrant colors not seen in traditional, 19th-century Impressionism. His use of thick, impasto texture creates paintings infused with dimension and depth that harkens to Impressionism’s emphasis on light. Much like Pierre-Auguste, Alexandre prefers to paint bright and joyful works. He takes to heart his great-grandfather’s philosophy: “There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them,” preferring to portray the pleasurable and serene aspects of life.

Julie Siracusa is known as The Ocean Artist. She masterfully uses oil paints to bring sea creatures and the vast ocean to life on canvases with remarkable, eye-watering results. Siracusa was born and raised in a small town in south Louisiana in the mid-60s. As soon as she could hold a pencil, she was drawing and her earliest memories are of creating art. Her artistic process has evolved over the years, moving from very precise edges to a much looser fluid technique capable of bringing collectors under the water with her. Sea creatures became a constant in Siracusa’s work, eventually leading to her Vitamin Sea series, becoming The Ocean Artist, and creating art for a purpose. Through her oil paintings, Siracusa aims to educate about our oceans, coral reefs, and the sea creatures that call the water home.

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