{"id":7232,"date":"2011-10-04T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:10:36","slug":"jim-rennert-playing-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/jim-rennert-playing-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Rennert: Playing With Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you went up to Park City&#8217;s Fashion Stroll on Friday you might have seen Jim Rennert&#8217;s sculptures in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meyergallery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meyer Gallery<\/a>. Rennert is becoming increasingly well-known for his &#8220;Suits,&#8221; series, which combines his business background with his enthusiasm for sports to explore the competitive nature of business. In 2006 we visited Rennert&#8217;s studio as part of our Studio Space series of photo essays. In this video you can watch as the patina application is put on &#8220;Walking the Tightrope,&#8221; a commission piece. The video was shot at the Adonis Bronze Foundry in Alpine, Utah.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kc2z_QrZxqQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you went up to Park City&#8217;s Fashion Stroll on Friday you might have seen Jim Rennert&#8217;s sculptures in Meyer Gallery. Rennert is becoming increasingly well-known for his &#8220;Suits,&#8221; series, which combines his business background with his enthusiasm for sports to explore the competitive nature of business. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[676],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jim-rennert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Picture-27.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 21:17:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97414,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/97414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}