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Wendi Schneider Featured in “Still in the Studio” at Catherine Couturier Gallery

“It has been a year of more and less. More appreciation, compassion, loss, recognition, reflection, solitude, and work. Less travel, interaction, and concern about unimportant things. Even mundane tasks have developed into more meditative moments. I am acutely aware of the passage of time and of my emotions, which seem to resonate more deeply. And as usual, but perhaps more than ever, I have turned to my art for serenity and respite, as making art to celebrate beauty has always been my personal refuge…” — Wendi Schneider

Wendi contributed a post to Still in the Studio, a weekly series created in response to the pandemic, where artists offer insight into their work and artist practice.

Read the post: Wendi Schneider, Still in the Studio, February 3, 2021

Wendi Schneider Now Represented by Vision Gallery in Jerusalem

“In a recent article published on Artnet, I noted that there is a trend in contemporary photography, a movement that might be called neo-Romanticism, in which artists seek ‘a transcendent union between nature, science & humanity.’ This harmonious fusion of elements is easily discerned in the works of artist Wendi Schneider. Wendi’s work shares an affinity with other Vision artists, most notably Beth Moon and Jennifer Schlesinger and with my own ‘Celestial Nights’ series. . .  [Wendi’s] images and prints are unique, I have never seen anything like them. We are privileged to have it at Vision. You are invited to schedule a live or virtual visit to the gallery and see the work in person.” 

– Neil Folberg


Vision Gallery
18 Yosef Rivlin Street Jerusalem, Israel
visiongallery.com

Wendi Schneider to Juror “Flora” for Southeast Center For Photography

Artists throughout the ages have been drawn to the vast and varied world of flora. What moves you? Do you celebrate the essence of beauty or strive to heighten recognition of the perilous path of our environment? Are you inspired by a single bloom or a profusion of blossoms in a lush bouquet, enchanted gardens manicured or messy, plants endangered or invasive, carefully cultivated or sown by nature, bursting forth or shriveling on a vine?

We’re looking for flora, all types from a single stem to a vast landscape, still life, formal gardens, or vegetation gone wild. Color or monochrome, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Deadline for submissions is March 7, 2021.


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Wendi Schneider Portfolio Featured in ARTDOC Magazine

“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.”

— Artdoc

View the portfolio: Artdoc Photography Magazine, Issue nr 2, 2020

Process as a Search for Serenity with Wendi Schneider

Wendi Schneider - Cypress

“Process as a Search for Serenity”
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Online Learning Series
Saturday, March 27, 10:00 am – 11:30 am PST

In this webinar, Wendi will discuss her artistic process, which fuses digital techniques with hand-gilding. Schneider’s process is heart-driven by a search for grace and the elusive ‘glow of flow,’ when the awareness of time and space disappear. Using her own work as reference, Wendi will showcase a series of images at several points in the production process to tell the story of an image from capture to completion. Rather than a tutorial on her image-making techniques, Wendi will discuss the path that has led her to her chosen form photography and print-making, and share how she uses her process to find serenity.

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Wendi Schneider Interviewed by Denver Women Magazine

Wendi Schneider

“Wendi is widely known for her ongoing series of hand-gilded photographs, States of Grace –– illuminated impressions of grace in the natural world. Drawn to the serenity she finds in the sinuous elegance of organic forms; she embraces photography to preserve vanishing moments of beauty in our vulnerable environment. She has perfected a gilding process in which her images seemingly dance on the paper’s surface amidst reflections of light on precious metals, creating a synthesis of technique and subject.”


—Denver Women Magazine

Read the interview: Denver Women Magazine, November 2021

Wendi Schneider Featured in The Royal Photographic Society Visual Arts Magazine

Wendi Schneider was a Featured Photographer in the 158th Issue of Visual Art, the magazine published by England’s Royal Photographic Society Visual Art Group. Many thanks to the Royal Photographic Society for this wonderful feature.

“I was in New Orleans last year and found ‘A Gallery for Fine Photography’ and it was here, among a fantastic selection of images, that I discovered the work of Denver-based artist Wendi Schneider. Her work literally shone out, by the use of precious metals to gild the reverse of her work, she creates other-worldly representations of the environment around us. I admire the way she has produced a beautiful body of work in a unique and magical way.“

– Ray Higginbottom, Editor, ARPS

Read the article: Visual Art Magazine, No. 158 Issue 2, 2020

“Hidden Within” in Photos de Femmes’ seeingWOMEN 2020, France

Honored to share that Photos de Femme’s Directors Renee Jacobs and Wendy Hicks chose to include Wendi’s image “Hidden Within” in the Grace category of the seeingWOMEN 2020 Awards Exhibition.

While the exhibition was scheduled to be held in October 2020 at Chateau de Lomenie, a 16th century chateau in the French countryside, it has been postponed in observance of COVID-19 regulations. More details to follow.

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Colorado Photographic Arts Center Benefit Auction

Little Black Angel © Wendi Schneider

Have you been thinking about making your first art purchase or expanding your collection? The CPAC 2020 Virtual Benefit Auction is a great opportunity!⁠
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Wendi Schneider’s “Little Black Angel” —  a framed pigment print on translucent vellum over white gold leaf from the States of Grace series — is one of 28 prints that could be yours. ⁠

Benefit Auction Pop-Up Exhibit
Colorado Photographic Arts Center
1070 Bannock Street Denver, CO
cpacphoto.org
On view September 29 – October 1, 2020

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Wendi Schneider Featured on “Mother F Stop”

Wendi Schneider - Withdrawal to Tranquility

“Her work is influenced by the lush landscapes of Memphis and New Orleans, her collection of art and antiques from the turn of the twentieth century, and a background in painting and art history – in particular the work of Steichen, Whistler, and other Pictorialists and Tonalists. She turned to photography in the early 1980s to create references for her paintings, then combined the mediums…”

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Introducing: “The Patina Collection”

Wendi Schneider is thrilled to announce her latest project, The Patina Collection. Each print from the States of Grace series in The Patina Collection is paired with a specially selected antique frame, making these inherently unique gilded prints truly one-of-a-kind works of art. This collection is the synthesis of nearly 40 years of collecting and creating, fused with a lifetime of love for the natural world and all its mysterious beauty.

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Wendi Schneider featured in Catherine Couturier Gallery’s “Safe in the Studio” Series

“My practice has not shifted measurably in the time of Covid-19. I turn to nature to dwell in serenity amidst the chaos, for it is there I find sanctuary and respite. I am transfixed and transformed when I capture impressions of fleeting grace in the natural world. Calmed by fluid, organic shapes reminiscent of the elegant whiplash lines of art nouveau botanicals, I photograph intuitively.“

Wendi contributed a post to Safe in the Studio, a weekly series created in response to the pandemic, where artists offer insight into their work and artist practice.

Read the article: Wendi Schneider, Safe in the Studio, April 9, 2020

The “Legacies of LIGHT” for “The Photograph Collector”

Wendi was honored to be asked to write about the Legacies of Light symposium at the Center for Creative Photography for The Photograph Collector. This rich symposium dove deep into the extensive archives of the Center and of those in the community created by this ground-breaking gallery. See page 7 in the linked article below.

Read the article: “The Legacies of LIGHT: A Three-Day Celebration,” Wendi Schneider, The Photograph Collector, Volume XLI, No. 2, February 2020