Wendi Schneider
Click! Photography Festival’s exhibition of Polaroid works and ephemera, including work from Wendi Schneider, is now on view and extended through December 31st.
Instant Gratification
Golden Belt Arts
800 Taylor St Durham, NC
“A quiet pilgrimage among the trees revealed the beloved fog that comforted me as a child growing up in the South. Embraced in a vapor evocative of the melancholy light of dusk, it was as though the clouds sighed an amorphous, dewy veil over the lush woods. I felt outside of time as we drove along the winding road, photographing through the windows and myriad layers of love and loss. Moving and still – it was a blink in the continuum of history, in a period like no other in our lifetime.“
– Wendi Schneider
Wendi Schneider’s ethereal gold-leafed photographs from “Into the Mist” were recently featured on All About Photo alongside an illuminating artist statement detailing her inspiration and process for the series.
Margaret Regan’s feature on the Reverence exhibition at Etherton Gallery was published today in the Tucson Weekly. Reverence pairs Wendi Schneider’s gilded kozo photographs with Laurie Lambrecht’s embroidered linen photographs.
Etherton Gallery
340 S. Convent Ave, Tucson, AZ
On view April 18 – June 10
Join Denver Arts & Venues curator Shanna Shelby and artist Wendi Schneider for a tour and discussion of “Finding Grace.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Can’t join in person? Denver Arts & Venues will be hosting this event through Facebook Live. Tune in to their page here at noon MDT on June 9 to watch.
The Buell Theater
14th & Curtis, Denver, CO
June 9, 12 pm MDT
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
–- Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring
The Etherton Gallery in Tucson, Arizona has just opened the exhibition, Reverence: Laurie Lambrecht and Wendi Schneider, that runs through June 10, 2023. Reverence pairs Laurie Lambrecht’s embroidered photographs on linen with Wendi Schneider’s gilded photographs on kozo paper, highlighting recent directions in object-based photography.
Sharing exhibition walls with another artist is always a great opportunity to connect more deeply with a photographer whose work is in conversation with your own. We continue the conversation off the wall and onto the page as Lambrecht and Schneider explore each other’s practices and influences. — Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
Denver Arts & Venues is proud to present this important exhibition spanning several decades of Wendi’s artistic portfolio. The continuous thread throughout Wendi’s body of work is grace. We live in a world where time never stops, where everything around us is constantly changing in a mad rush. Yet, when experiencing Wendi’s work, we feel a much-needed moment of stillness and reverence for the natural world. There is a beauty and quiet calm in everything she creates, whether in a serene view of trees at night, or the calm resting of a bird, or a portrait of a flower. Her use of gold leaf gilding creates a sense of preciousness unique to each print.
Buell Theater
14th & Curtis, Denver, CO
On view May 2 – July 2
Opening reception: Friday, May 5
5-8 pm
Reverence: Wendi Schneider & Laurie Lambrecht
Featuring work from The Patina Collection and Into The Mist.
Etherton Gallery
340 S. Convent Ave, Tucson, AZ
On view April 18 – June 10
Opening reception: Saturday, April 22
7-10 pm
“Analog Forever Magazine, in partnership with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and Month of Photography Denver, is proud to present this online exhibition featuring 60 photographs, curated by American artist Wendi Schneider.”
This is a call for all genres of landscape: natural, urban, industrial, and abstract. Show us how you see the world, while embracing the quiet and minimal.
All capture and processing methods are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: April 17, 2023
The next stop on the Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition tour is at Museum of Gloucester. Now in its 163rd edition, the show will include two images selected from Schneider’s States of Grace series.
On view January 28 – June 4
Museum of Gloucester
Brunswick Rd, Gloucester GL1 1HP, United Kingdom
Wendi Schneider and her photograph “Refuge” were recently highlighted on Vision Gallery’s Instagram by gallery manager Yehuda Winiarz, who gives an excellent and thoughtful breakdown of Wendi’s background and process.
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this (20th) century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The veneration of fleeting moments of beauty is now intensified by the quickening pace of loss. To what do you pay tribute and seek to bring attention? Where do you find your sense of place, solace or disruption? What moves, replenishes, or disturbs you? How do you express what resonates with your soul in the natural world, be it the birds, bees, plants, trees, or other creatures? What is the story only you can tell?
Deadline for Submission: February 28, 2023
In 2013 PhotoNOLA established the Collectors Club series as a fundraising initiative with a mission to encourage collecting. Through this program we offer the public an opportunity to collect works by great contemporary photographers at an accessible price point. All proceeds support the programming initiatives of PhotoNOLA, a volunteer-run photography festival.
Each year we partner with a photographer to create a limited edition print. The editions of 100 (plus five artist proofs) are beautifully crafted archival pigment prints on 10×12” hot press, 100% cotton rag paper. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.
The Photo Review Auction features work from the 19th century to the present. Collectors will have the opportunity to bid on work from some of the most famous practitioners of the medium to contemporary stars to fascinating vernacular work by the ubiquitous Unknown.
Published since 1976, the Photo Review is a semi-annual journal covering photography events throughout the country.
Online bidding is open until November 11, 2022, 5:00 p.m. EST.
REVĒLŌ
Click! Photography Festival’s Second Annual Plein Air Exhibition
On view October 1 – 31
Opening Event:
October 9, 11am – 4pm ET
NCMA: Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park
2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh, NC
Revēlō (to show, uncover, reveal or disclose)
Portraits and self-portraits have been fixtures in art for centuries. They can reveal both hidden and visible characteristics, create fantasies and myths, describe performative roles, and question identity. How do we construct and project our identity and reality via portraits? Do they open a window into ourselves and our lives, or protect our vulnerabilities? Five of Wendi Schneider’s figurative photographs will be included in the exhibition.
As part of the inaugural Atlanta Art Week, Wendi Schneider’s States of Grace will feature in two different program events hosted at Arnika Dawkins Gallery, beginning with a reception for States of Grace on Saturday, Oct 1st. On Oct 2nd, attendees can join ArtTable for an exhibition visit and tour of States of Grace with gallery founder and owner Arnika Dawkins.
Atlanta Art Week is a new initiative that celebrates the visual arts in one of the fastest growing art hubs in the United States.
Arnika Dawkins Gallery
4600 Cascade Rd, Atlanta, GA
Wendi Schneider | States of Grace
Reception:
October 1, 11am – 3pm ET
For more information
Private Collection Tour with Cathy Byrd and Curator’s talk with Arnika Dawkins
October 2, 12pm ET
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Wendi’s images are featured in the Language of the Land edition of Shadow & Light Magazine.
“I create illuminated impressions of glimpses of grace in our vulnerable natural world. My work is a celebration of the senses anchored in the visual – an exploration of my spiritual connection to sinuous organic forms and the transcendence I find in their beauty. I preserve mystical moments that still time for me. Viewing the world in vignettes, I am calmed by the visual balance of a compelling composition. Subtle variations of rich hues move me, and I find magic in the mist and mystery of the obscured . . .”
–– Wendi Schneider
View the article: Shadow & Light Magazine, Issue 49, September/October 2022
Wendi Schneider’s gold leafed photograph “Around the Corner’ was featured as the Photo of the Day.
An excerpt from a 2018 Rfotofolio interview:
Which photographers and other artists’ work do you admire?
“A long, yet abbreviated list: the Pictorialists – Steichen, Demachy, Eugene, de Meyer, Kuhn, Kasebier, Puyo, Brigman, Coburn, Haviland – Moon, Metzner, Turbeville, Outerbridge, Sudek, Salgado, and so many others. I’m drawn to the simplicity of old Japanese prints and paintings, the gilded work of Klimt and the religious painters of centuries past, Manet, Monet, Heade, Turner, Sargent, Whistler, Courbet . . . the list goes on. I believe everything we see is imprinted on our psyche, perhaps to emerge in a personal incarnation in the future.”
View more of Wendi’s work and the interview on Rfotofolio.
Wendi Schneider: Selected Works
Rick Wester Fine Art
On view until August 31st
526 W 26th St #417, New York, NY
A new selection of gilded photographs by Wendi Schneider can be viewed by appointment at the gallery and online in a virtual exhibition.
The images were printed with archival pigment inks on Japanese kozo paper – made from the inner bark of mulberry trees. White gold leaf was then applied on the verso, infusing the artist’s hand and suffusing the images with the implied spirituality of the precious metal. The filtered, dappled light that glimmered through the branches is echoed in the shimmer of the gilded prints.
Read the article: ArtDoc Magazine, Issue #3: Voices of Nature, 2022