Renee Podunovich

Artist · Photographer · Printmaker · Poet

My work grows from listening to the living land—its light, weather, seasons, deep-time histories, and mysteries.

I am an artist, photographer, printmaker, and poet, and the high desert of the American Southwest is my artistic heart’s home.Across cyanotype, photography, collage, printmaking, and poetry, I explore the threshold between what is seen and what is sensed, where outer landscape becomes inner terrain and what waits beneath the visible begins to emerge.

ART

Photography · Cyanotype · Printmaking · Collage · Photogravure

WRITING

ICE DANCE
Thaw shatters—slush-crash,
hush between startled ice floes,
exposed slice of sun.

EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS

2026

SOLO EXHIBITION

Mancos Public Library
October 1–31, 2026

POETRY READING

FLAME: Anthology of Prose and Poems from Four Corners Region
Mancos Public Library
Date TBA

ABOUT

Right here, right now, immense landscapes move through seasons of light, weather, growth, and disappearance. Deep-time histories lie beneath the surface, while the living land continually invites me into conversation. My work grows from listening to that voice.I work across cyanotype and alternative photographic processes, collage, and traditional printmaking. I am particularly drawn to cyanotype for its elemental nature: light enters, water transforms, and an image emerges. The process feels both photographic and alchemical, revealing something that was present but not yet visible.Across my visual art and poetry, I explore the threshold between what is seen and what is sensed. A landscape may become an inner terrain; a botanical form may open into memory or mystery. With a touch of magical realism, I seek moments of illumination and expanded awareness while remaining grounded in the senses and the living Earth.Poetry is woven into this practice. I have published three poetry chapbooks: Illustrious for Brief Moments (Finishing Line Press, 2021), Let the Scaffolding Collapse (Finishing Line Press, finalist, New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, 2012), and If There Is a Center No One Knows Where It Begins (Art Juice Press, 2008). In 2019, I received the Cantor Award from the Telluride Literary Festival.

GALLERY