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Wendi Schneider to Jury “Trees” Exhibition for PhotoPlace Gallery

As we continue to deplete forests and burn the Amazon in the face of increasing global warming, trees have never been more vital to our survival than they are today. Celebrate their existence and their beauty with your images of trees of all sizes and shapes, in all environments and seasons. All captures and processes are welcome. 

Five percent (5%) of all submission fees will be donated to the National Forest Foundation, recipient of Charity Navigator‘s highest rating.

Deadline for entries is Monday, June 13, 2022.  

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States of Grace to Open at Arnika Dawkins Gallery

Wendi Schneider - Beloved

Wendi Schneider’s first solo exhibition at Arnika Dawkins Gallery

On view March 26 – May 7
Opening Reception:
March 26, 11 – 3 EST
4600 Cascade, Atlanta

“Grace is defined as unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification; Wendi Schneider’s work provides a reprieve in these turbulent times.” –– Arnika Dawkins

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Wendi Schneider to Jury Botanical for the Southeast Center of Photography

“In times of turmoil we often turn to nature for solace and centering. Whether bringing light and focus to what we are losing or celebrating rebirth, from broad landscapes to close up or microscopic forms.

Artists throughout the ages have been drawn to the vast and varied world of botanicals. 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?”


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States of Grace at A Gallery For Fine Photography

Wendi Schneider’s solo exhibition at A Gallery For Fine Photography

On view March 10 – August 1, 2022
Opening Reception & Zoom Artist Talk:
March 12, 1PM CST
241 Chartres St., New Orleans

The exhibition includes a selection of gilded pigment prints from the States of Grace series, including works from Evenings with the Moon and the Patina Collection.

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Wendi Schneider’s “States of Grace” Featured on Landscape Stories

Wendi Schneider - The Gossamer Threads of Dreams

Schneider writes “My work in the States of Grace series illuminates transformative moments of spiritual connection to nature, rooted in the serenity I find in the sinuous elegance of organic forms. I photograph intuitively to make the intangible tangible, creating impressions of fleeting moments of vanishing beauty in our vulnerable environment to honor the ephemeral. . .”

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Wendi Schneider’s Gilded Photographs Featured in Catherine Couturier Gallery’s “Deck the Walls” Exhibition

Catherine Couturier Gallery is delighted to present its annual group exhibition Deck the Walls. Deck the Walls is an exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that allows Catherine Couturier Gallery to showcase a variety of artists, prices, styles, and photographic mediums. Deck the Walls will feature works by Max Yavno, Horst P. Horst, and Robert Doisneau. Other exhibited artists will include Maggie Taylor, Kate Breakey, Kenny Braun, Susan Burnstine, Mabry Campbell, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mitch Dobrowner, Weegee, Rachel Phillips, Brett Weston, and Jerry Uelsmann just to name a few. There will be something for everyone’s budget and taste. 

Exhibition on View: December 4th, 2021 – January 8th, 2022

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Wendi Schneider’s Gilded Photographs in The 163rd Royal Photographic Society Exhibition

One hundred images were chosen anonymously from over 8000 entries, exploring themes of identity, cultural heritage, global societal issues, gender politics, mental health, the natural world, and the human condition for the 163rd edition of the world’s oldest photography exhibition, where such artists as Eduard Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn and Julia Margaret Cameron exhibited. 

The 57 international photographers will exhibit at the Royal Photographic Society at RPS Gallery, Bristol, UK April 16 – July 3, 2022 before the exhibition travels.

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Wendi Schneider’s “Patina Collection” Featured on All About Photo

Schneider says “I create illuminated illusions – tender, gilded offerings of fleeting moments of beauty in our vulnerable environment . . . My process creates a surface that shimmers as the viewer’s position and ambient light transition, reflecting the mercurial light at capture. Elevating the ephemeral, I follow instinctively where each image and print takes me, often altering the color, texture or gold, and honoring the variations within the edition. Each of these unique framed prints is a one-of-a-kind object of reverence.”

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Wendi Schneider’s “Patina Collection” Featured on All About Photo

I create illuminated illusions – tender, gilded offerings of fleeting moments of beauty in our vulnerable environment. . .My process creates a surface that shimmers as the viewer’s position and ambient light transition, reflecting the mercurial light at capture. . .Each of these unique framed prints is a one-of-a-kind object of reverence.

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Wendi Schneider to Speak at LACP Gala & Auction Artists Talks

Wendi Schneider - Lily Pads II

In order to introduce you to the work of some of the auction artists, LACP will be hosting a series of online artist talks which will begin on September 21st.

These talks are free and open to the public via Zoom.  

Schedule:
Tuesday, September 21, 5 pm PST – Josephine Sacabo, Wendi Schneider, Hiroshi Watanabe

Thursday, September 23, 5 pm PST – Fran Forman, Michael Kenna, Shawn Theodore

Tuesday, September 28, 5 pm PST – Joanne Dugan, David Hume Kennerly, Miranda Penn Turin

Thursday, September 30, 5 pm PST – Richard Renaldi, Bootsy Holler, Sam Abell (yet to confirm)

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Wendi Schneider’s Photographs Featured in Diffusion X

Wendi Schneider - Crescent Moon

“In Diffusion Volume X, we pay homage to the history and celebration of our forged bonds, so cheers to the technicians, the historians, the cyber artists, the chemists, the alchemists, the magicians, the purists, the rebels, and the visionaries! Ten cheers for the crafters of photography.”


— Excerpt from “A Love Letter to the Crafters of Photography” by Blue Mitchell

View the issue: Diffusion Vol X, 2021

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 Interviewed by Denver Women Magazine

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“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 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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