The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Axioms
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Axioms
by Diana Schmertz
September 28 - October 11, 2014
chashama 1155 Arts & Performance Space
1155 Avenue of the Americas
(at 45th Street )
New York, NY 10036
Open Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 12 noon - 6pm
Closing Reception:
Friday, October 10 from 6 - 8pm
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Axioms is an exhibition of artworks by Diana Schmertz investigating the systems people create in order to organize what they perceive in the world around them. Empty space and geometric elements are juxtaposed with organic imagery as a means to balance perspectives of reason and that of sense. From afar the work appears to be a unit that references objectivity via mathematical/scientific observation, and systemization. At close range the system collapses, engaging the viewer intimately and personally. Due to the physical constraints of our being we are unable to interact with the work from both perspectives in the same time and space. Schmertz’s work makes this condition appear, echoing our inherent struggle to simultaneously understand relationships from both the subjective and objective, the ordered and the chaotic.
About the artist:
After completing her BFA from Purchase College at the age of 19, Diana Schmertz was accepted into De Ateliers 63 residency program and awarded a two-year grant to live and paint in Amsterdam, Holland. Returning to New York in her early twenties she completed two Masters of Science and became a therapist and teacher. Reentering the artworld at thirty, Schmertz received many grants from organizations such as the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. She exhibits her work in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Holland, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Most recently Schmertz completed the Aljira Emerge 11 program, exhibited at Garis & Hahn on Bowery Street in New York City and Montclair Art Museum@ Pierro Gallery in New Jersey.
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Diana Schmertz at (212) 304-4843 or DianaSchmertz@hotmail.com
by Diana Schmertz
September 28 - October 11, 2014
chashama 1155 Arts & Performance Space
1155 Avenue of the Americas
(at 45th Street )
New York, NY 10036
Open Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 12 noon - 6pm
Closing Reception:
Friday, October 10 from 6 - 8pm
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Axioms is an exhibition of artworks by Diana Schmertz investigating the systems people create in order to organize what they perceive in the world around them. Empty space and geometric elements are juxtaposed with organic imagery as a means to balance perspectives of reason and that of sense. From afar the work appears to be a unit that references objectivity via mathematical/scientific observation, and systemization. At close range the system collapses, engaging the viewer intimately and personally. Due to the physical constraints of our being we are unable to interact with the work from both perspectives in the same time and space. Schmertz’s work makes this condition appear, echoing our inherent struggle to simultaneously understand relationships from both the subjective and objective, the ordered and the chaotic.
About the artist:
After completing her BFA from Purchase College at the age of 19, Diana Schmertz was accepted into De Ateliers 63 residency program and awarded a two-year grant to live and paint in Amsterdam, Holland. Returning to New York in her early twenties she completed two Masters of Science and became a therapist and teacher. Reentering the artworld at thirty, Schmertz received many grants from organizations such as the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. She exhibits her work in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Holland, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Most recently Schmertz completed the Aljira Emerge 11 program, exhibited at Garis & Hahn on Bowery Street in New York City and Montclair Art Museum@ Pierro Gallery in New Jersey.
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Diana Schmertz at (212) 304-4843 or DianaSchmertz@hotmail.com
