Exhibition Schedule:
Current Exhibition
Jamie Baldridge & Sergio Fasola
Magic Realism
November 6, 2009 - January 2, 2010
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to bring you the work of Jamie Baldridge and Sergio Fasola in a two-person show, Magic Realism. Both artists walk the line between real and imagined, concrete and created. These artists use camera and computer to construct their pieces and to seamlessly weave the believable to the unbelievable, effectively making their own “magic” logic. The worlds and scenes they create in their pieces walk the line of real and imagined worlds, and for this our emotions too teeter on boundaries. The works manage to be dark yet alluring, fantastic but convincing, sometimes gloomy, but never without a ray of hope.
Baldridge’s pieces are reminiscent of fairytales unremembered, stories unheard. There is a familiarity to the depicted narratives that encourages their viewer to linger, to think. Fasola’s photographs find roots in art history but take on a new life. The twists wound around the historic framework is extraordinary and unexpected but grounded.
We welcome you to wander through the strange, the curious, magic spaces and perplexing narratives Baldridge and Fasola have realized in their works.
Luis Gonzalez Palma
Depiction New Portraits
January 8 - February 27, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 8
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the new work Luis Gonzalez Palma. Depiction will feature the new portraits by Palma; these works capture the visages of “modern women” as seen by the artist as well as Guatemalan bodyguards. As always, there is something haunting to the gaze of his subjects, something alluring, penetrating, strong yet subtle, forceful yet quiet. The treatment of the bodyguard pieces is noteworthy.
In the years Palma has been with our gallery he has worked in a broad range of media including hand painted silver prints- some with collaged elements, images in kodalith set upon red sheets covered by gold leaf, and digital prints. Palma again has kept the integrity of his imagery while exploring what to him is a new media, goldtones. A lost process, the goldtone was studied and resurrected by a fine art printer in Minnesota. The portraits of 8 bodyguards were printed in the goldtone then set into ambrotype cases. Used by soldiers to carry into battle, the ambrotype case here hold portraits of bodyguards. These rough faces and hardened men seem both regal and fragile with the ruff collars they wear. A European fashion in late 16th and early 17th centuries, the ruff collar was worn in the courts and symbolized status, wealth, and leisure. The resonance and significance of the case and its pairing with the portrait of the guards is striking, weighty, and beautiful.
Guillermo Srodek-Hart & Kevin Malella
March 5 - May 8, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 5
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the work of two young artists, Guillermo Srodek-Hart and Kevin Malella, who have recently earned their Masters of Fine Arts, and have been actively working and exhibiting. These promising artists are interested in places, though for different reason and with different result.
Srodek-Hart is drawn to collection and accumulation; at times the assemblage is a shop, and at others a roadside or in-home shrines. All his captured scenes are from rural Argentina. He brings us images of a rustic carpenter’s shop, a cobbler’s workbench under a mountain of worn soles, a butcher shop with meat on hooks and displayed raw on countertops. The shrines range from tidy to cluttered. Those on the roadside are overrun with offerings. Faith, superstition, or legend the stories that accompany these seemingly spontaneous collections give insight into the popular culture of the Argentineans.
Malella’s Constructed Landscapes unveil the relationship between industry and landscape. A factory disrupts a wetland scene, a billowing smoke stack breaks clear blue sky, a nuclear cooling tower towers over a field of golden wheat. Malella draws from the documentary tradition, but integrates frames and vantage of multiple shots into a single panoramic view. His technique heightens the intersection of artificial and organic. The series title, Constructed Landscape, is clever, as it points reference to both the means of production and the intrusion of man on nature.
Jamie Baldridge & Sergio Fasola
Magic Realism
November 6, 2009 - January 2, 2010
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to bring you the work of Jamie Baldridge and Sergio Fasola in a two-person show, Magic Realism. Both artists walk the line between real and imagined, concrete and created. These artists use camera and computer to construct their pieces and to seamlessly weave the believable to the unbelievable, effectively making their own “magic” logic. The worlds and scenes they create in their pieces walk the line of real and imagined worlds, and for this our emotions too teeter on boundaries. The works manage to be dark yet alluring, fantastic but convincing, sometimes gloomy, but never without a ray of hope.
Baldridge’s pieces are reminiscent of fairytales unremembered, stories unheard. There is a familiarity to the depicted narratives that encourages their viewer to linger, to think. Fasola’s photographs find roots in art history but take on a new life. The twists wound around the historic framework is extraordinary and unexpected but grounded.
We welcome you to wander through the strange, the curious, magic spaces and perplexing narratives Baldridge and Fasola have realized in their works.
Luis Gonzalez Palma
Depiction New Portraits
January 8 - February 27, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 8
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the new work Luis Gonzalez Palma. Depiction will feature the new portraits by Palma; these works capture the visages of “modern women” as seen by the artist as well as Guatemalan bodyguards. As always, there is something haunting to the gaze of his subjects, something alluring, penetrating, strong yet subtle, forceful yet quiet. The treatment of the bodyguard pieces is noteworthy.
In the years Palma has been with our gallery he has worked in a broad range of media including hand painted silver prints- some with collaged elements, images in kodalith set upon red sheets covered by gold leaf, and digital prints. Palma again has kept the integrity of his imagery while exploring what to him is a new media, goldtones. A lost process, the goldtone was studied and resurrected by a fine art printer in Minnesota. The portraits of 8 bodyguards were printed in the goldtone then set into ambrotype cases. Used by soldiers to carry into battle, the ambrotype case here hold portraits of bodyguards. These rough faces and hardened men seem both regal and fragile with the ruff collars they wear. A European fashion in late 16th and early 17th centuries, the ruff collar was worn in the courts and symbolized status, wealth, and leisure. The resonance and significance of the case and its pairing with the portrait of the guards is striking, weighty, and beautiful.
Guillermo Srodek-Hart & Kevin Malella
March 5 - May 8, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 5
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the work of two young artists, Guillermo Srodek-Hart and Kevin Malella, who have recently earned their Masters of Fine Arts, and have been actively working and exhibiting. These promising artists are interested in places, though for different reason and with different result.
Srodek-Hart is drawn to collection and accumulation; at times the assemblage is a shop, and at others a roadside or in-home shrines. All his captured scenes are from rural Argentina. He brings us images of a rustic carpenter’s shop, a cobbler’s workbench under a mountain of worn soles, a butcher shop with meat on hooks and displayed raw on countertops. The shrines range from tidy to cluttered. Those on the roadside are overrun with offerings. Faith, superstition, or legend the stories that accompany these seemingly spontaneous collections give insight into the popular culture of the Argentineans.
Malella’s Constructed Landscapes unveil the relationship between industry and landscape. A factory disrupts a wetland scene, a billowing smoke stack breaks clear blue sky, a nuclear cooling tower towers over a field of golden wheat. Malella draws from the documentary tradition, but integrates frames and vantage of multiple shots into a single panoramic view. His technique heightens the intersection of artificial and organic. The series title, Constructed Landscape, is clever, as it points reference to both the means of production and the intrusion of man on nature.
