Artdoc Magazine recently featured gallery artist Wendi Schneider. The following article was published on December 14, 2020. To read the original article, click here.
Trees of grace and transcendence
Locust, Old Fort, NC, 2016
Trees are silent protagonists in the work of Wendi Schneider, which is rooted in the serenity she finds in the sinuous elegance of organic forms. She shares moments of respite in beauty as an antidote to the unease in the world in which we live. “If I can touch someone else with my work, I’m deeply moved and grateful. I hope that viewers will appreciate the beauty and embrace the need to care for our endangered planet.”
The series ‘States of Grace’ of Wendi Schneider, an American photographer residing in Denver, evolved organically. “I photograph what I’m drawn to and strive to immortalize the grace I find there, to make the intangible tangible, and to instill my images with the spirituality felt at the moment of capture. These moments are my states of grace.”
The series is extensive and is informed by nearly 40 years of photographic image-making. Her work originates from her youth, growing up in a family of artists in the lush, plush South. Schneider: “As a child who grew up in the shadows of the Holocaust, the murders of the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, and countless others in our systemic racism and antisemitism, I embraced the ideology of different strokes for different folks.”
Within States of Grace are images that can be curated by subject, theme, or treatment. For her Colorado Month Colorado Month of Photography exhibition in Boulder in 2019, Schneider chose the title of Photography exhibition in Boulder in 2019, Schneider chose the title ‘Evenings with the Moon’. “In this selection of images, I contemplate the power of universal experiences to unify and find transcendence, engaging ‘Evenings with the Moon’. “In this selection of images, I contemplate the power of universal the moon as muse. Printed on vellum or kozo and gilded with precious metals, the subjects echo the luminosity experiences to unify and find transcendence, engaging the moon as muse. Printed on vellum or of their celestial inspiration. My images of the night draw on the metaphor of darkness and light to express our shared longing for freedom, peace, love, and harmony amidst the chaos of the world. This synthesis of form kozo and gilded with precious metals, the subjects echo the luminosity of their celestial and content, paired with poetry and music, allows the viewer to consider the commonalities in our collective inspiration. My images of the night draw on the metaphor of darkness and light to express our consciousness. We all live under the same moon.”
To read the original article, click here.