Untitled Trees

Untitled Trees
by Patrick Schmidt

chashama 1351
1351 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 125th & 126th St.)
New York, NY

September 7 – 28, 2012
Viewable from the street 24/7

These paintings (and drawings) are cross-pollinated with printmaking, installation, sculpture, and craft to create a painted hybrid of sort while still maintaining the look, feel and smell of a painting. The work explores the notion of understanding through repetition, structure(s), pattern as identity, and the in-between space.

Play through repetition is the bases to understanding the new. To repeat something we have the opportunity to understand ourselves an activity, a structure, and the inner workings of “things”. Structure takes into account the physicality of a work, design through technology, and color perception. Repetition of patterns presents a structure (idea) where as the display with multi views disrupt the structure, which creates another kind of structure. Multiply views through “re”-arranging the work questions authorship. I am a conduit in-between the idea (structure) and the work itself. Pattern is used as cultural, social and personal identity.

The in-between examines the interdisciplinary techniques and interactions of a work or idea. Placing the work on the floor, ceiling, walls, and suspended within space engages viewers interactively by creating yet another in-between space to play. Displaying the work is collaboration/performance between the artist, architecture or space, and the preparer/viewer as the work could change physically and visually, revealing new inquiry and experience.

Artist Bio:
Mr. Patrick Schmidt is an Associate Professor of Art and an active painter showing work at the national level. He currently teaches painting, drawing, two-dimensional design, printmaking, and computer imaging at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania and previously taught part-time at Western Michigan and Ferris State Universities. Mr. Schmidt earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Central Michigan University. He has exhibited extensively throughout the country.