Exhibition Schedule:
Current Exhibition:
A New Angle
Portrait Group Show
May 14 - July 3, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 14
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the work of four young artists, Jowhara AlSaud, Jess T. Dugan, Jennifer Greenburg, and Ursula Sokolowska. These exceptional women photographers all explore the power of the portrait.
The portrait is personal, and when effective, goes beyond depiction- it commands presence, it reveals the quality and character of the sitter. The portraits by AlSaud, Dugan, Greenburg, and Sokolowska allow us the unique pleasure to do more than look but to engage a world that we may otherwise not feel invited into. Each artist captures their subject with such ease and grace that we too feel to have an intimate relation with them. We do not see as a voyeur, rather as friend, confidant, or equal. We are welcomed to comfortably wander, even inhabit the frame.
Saudi Arabian artist Jowhara AlSaud works with purpose. She begins with images of daily life- snapshots of family and friends- and works subtractively, scratching into the emulsion of the negative itself. Through elimination she employs a visual language that reacts directly to the process of censorship.
Jess T. Dugan takes interest in identity and self definition. She explores how activities, collections, and place act as mirror to the self. Dugan both asks and answers the question- how are our passions, interests, and pursuits reflected in the environments we inhabit. A seemingly simple question is handled with sincerity, delight, and insight into the figures and the spaces illuminated.
Jennifer Greenburg explores the subculture of the American Rockabilly in frames that inherently have documentary quality, but work beyond the limits of the genre. The Rockabillies live within the parameters of mid-twentieth century America. Judgment, critique, and skepticism of those living this adopted lifestyle fall away; our engagement with the figures is both personal and direct.
Ursula Sokolowska’s latest work is subtle yet weighty. No removal exists between the viewer and subject. The immediacy and rawness of the individuals depicted allows for an instant contact with the space, charac-ter, and subsequent narrative. If we were not allowed to hide ourselves in shadow our meeting with the figures would almost be abrupt.
Easy Acquisitions
New Discoveries from Around the Globe
July 9 - Sept. 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, July 9
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present Easy Acquisitions, New discoveries from around the globe. As all galleries we continually seek new artists and undiscovered talent, but one distinguishing feature of our gallery is the desire to give young artists an opportunity.
Easy Acquisitions is sure to offer the Chicago audience an exciting peek at how the next generation of photographers see the world. Some artists were found through friendly recommendations or alliances to other artists, and some were recently introduced to the gallery through Houston FotoFest. Our director, Martha Schneider, recently traveled to the acclamed Texas photo review where she met some promising, energetic, and inspired artists.
Five artists from far and near have been invited to exhibit in this summer group show. Guy Glorieux (Canadian) has reinvented the concept of the pin-hole camera by using a room and an open window to capture his monumental cityscapes. Michelle Sank photographs teenagers in their element; Sank began in her native England and now travels around the world expanding the series. New Jersey native Bill Westheimer takes interest in the small fragments of the natural world and uses the seldom seen tintype to bring magic to every day elements. Chinese artist Jiang Yiming composes shots of kindergardeners set against a traditional watercolor backround and dressed as what they hope to be when they grow up. Argentinian born Pablo Gimenez Zapiola projects text onto moving trains in a flash of progress, hope, desire, and promise.
We hope you will join us in welcoming these artists to our gallery.
In-between
Portraits of Teenagers
September 17 - October 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 17
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the work of Natan Divir and Rania Matar. These two photographers have as much in common as they risk to have in conflict; Divir was born in Israel and Matar in Lebanon. Both photograph teenagers in their protected spaces, often the home or bedroom.
In Divir’s project, Eighteen, he crosses to “the other side” to photograph young Palestinians. Matar had intended to focus on American teenage girls in A Girl and Her Room, but could not ignore her strong personal connection to the Middle East and some images are of Lebanese and Palestinian teenagers.
When paralleled their work reveals the similarity of young people everywhere. These adolescents are caught between child and adult; their personalities appear to be forming before our eyes. Some seem calm, confidant, or even off in a dream, while others appear defiant, severe, even contemptuous. These differences at times rest within the nature of the frame itself, particularly with the inherent baggage of an Israeli photographer in the private space of a Palestinian teen, though it is not always the case. One of Matar’s American teens dressed in an oversized sweeter and torn black stockings twirls her red hair and stares at us with cool defiance from the foot of her closet door. Even if they remain guarded, trust in the other, the outsider, the adult, must be given by every subject to the photographer.
While each photographer takes a different approach and vantage what their work does together is of tremendous power. We come away with a certainty in the universal make-up of teens. Despite geographic, cultural, or religious differences is the underlying reality of shared experience- the search for self identity and need for sanctuary.
A New Angle
Portrait Group Show
May 14 - July 3, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 14
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the work of four young artists, Jowhara AlSaud, Jess T. Dugan, Jennifer Greenburg, and Ursula Sokolowska. These exceptional women photographers all explore the power of the portrait.
The portrait is personal, and when effective, goes beyond depiction- it commands presence, it reveals the quality and character of the sitter. The portraits by AlSaud, Dugan, Greenburg, and Sokolowska allow us the unique pleasure to do more than look but to engage a world that we may otherwise not feel invited into. Each artist captures their subject with such ease and grace that we too feel to have an intimate relation with them. We do not see as a voyeur, rather as friend, confidant, or equal. We are welcomed to comfortably wander, even inhabit the frame.
Saudi Arabian artist Jowhara AlSaud works with purpose. She begins with images of daily life- snapshots of family and friends- and works subtractively, scratching into the emulsion of the negative itself. Through elimination she employs a visual language that reacts directly to the process of censorship.
Jess T. Dugan takes interest in identity and self definition. She explores how activities, collections, and place act as mirror to the self. Dugan both asks and answers the question- how are our passions, interests, and pursuits reflected in the environments we inhabit. A seemingly simple question is handled with sincerity, delight, and insight into the figures and the spaces illuminated.
Jennifer Greenburg explores the subculture of the American Rockabilly in frames that inherently have documentary quality, but work beyond the limits of the genre. The Rockabillies live within the parameters of mid-twentieth century America. Judgment, critique, and skepticism of those living this adopted lifestyle fall away; our engagement with the figures is both personal and direct.
Ursula Sokolowska’s latest work is subtle yet weighty. No removal exists between the viewer and subject. The immediacy and rawness of the individuals depicted allows for an instant contact with the space, charac-ter, and subsequent narrative. If we were not allowed to hide ourselves in shadow our meeting with the figures would almost be abrupt.
Easy Acquisitions
New Discoveries from Around the Globe
July 9 - Sept. 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, July 9
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present Easy Acquisitions, New discoveries from around the globe. As all galleries we continually seek new artists and undiscovered talent, but one distinguishing feature of our gallery is the desire to give young artists an opportunity.
Easy Acquisitions is sure to offer the Chicago audience an exciting peek at how the next generation of photographers see the world. Some artists were found through friendly recommendations or alliances to other artists, and some were recently introduced to the gallery through Houston FotoFest. Our director, Martha Schneider, recently traveled to the acclamed Texas photo review where she met some promising, energetic, and inspired artists.
Five artists from far and near have been invited to exhibit in this summer group show. Guy Glorieux (Canadian) has reinvented the concept of the pin-hole camera by using a room and an open window to capture his monumental cityscapes. Michelle Sank photographs teenagers in their element; Sank began in her native England and now travels around the world expanding the series. New Jersey native Bill Westheimer takes interest in the small fragments of the natural world and uses the seldom seen tintype to bring magic to every day elements. Chinese artist Jiang Yiming composes shots of kindergardeners set against a traditional watercolor backround and dressed as what they hope to be when they grow up. Argentinian born Pablo Gimenez Zapiola projects text onto moving trains in a flash of progress, hope, desire, and promise.
We hope you will join us in welcoming these artists to our gallery.
In-between
Portraits of Teenagers
September 17 - October 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 17
5:00 - 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the work of Natan Divir and Rania Matar. These two photographers have as much in common as they risk to have in conflict; Divir was born in Israel and Matar in Lebanon. Both photograph teenagers in their protected spaces, often the home or bedroom.
In Divir’s project, Eighteen, he crosses to “the other side” to photograph young Palestinians. Matar had intended to focus on American teenage girls in A Girl and Her Room, but could not ignore her strong personal connection to the Middle East and some images are of Lebanese and Palestinian teenagers.
When paralleled their work reveals the similarity of young people everywhere. These adolescents are caught between child and adult; their personalities appear to be forming before our eyes. Some seem calm, confidant, or even off in a dream, while others appear defiant, severe, even contemptuous. These differences at times rest within the nature of the frame itself, particularly with the inherent baggage of an Israeli photographer in the private space of a Palestinian teen, though it is not always the case. One of Matar’s American teens dressed in an oversized sweeter and torn black stockings twirls her red hair and stares at us with cool defiance from the foot of her closet door. Even if they remain guarded, trust in the other, the outsider, the adult, must be given by every subject to the photographer.
While each photographer takes a different approach and vantage what their work does together is of tremendous power. We come away with a certainty in the universal make-up of teens. Despite geographic, cultural, or religious differences is the underlying reality of shared experience- the search for self identity and need for sanctuary.
