Wendi Schneider
Humana Obscura is an independent literary magazine that publishes nature-focused poetry and art by writers and artists from around the world. Our intention is to inspire readers and enrich their lives while providing an inclusive space for elevating the voices, expressions, and creative work of our contributors.
The Winter 2024 Issue features work from 44 contributors from around the globe.
A Gallery For Fine Photography in New Orleans is offering free shipping on unframed prints and $100 shipping for framed prints through December 31, 2024.
Please call 504-568-1313 to take advantage of the offer.
Catherine Couturier Gallery is delighted to present the 27th annual Deck the Walls, an exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that showcases a variety of artists, prices, styles, and photographic mediums. This year will feature prints ranging from vintage black and white 20th-century works to contemporary color photography. Crowd-pleasing Mystery Boxes will be for sale. Visitors can pick their favorite wrapped present containing photography books worth $200 to $250, on sale for only $50! There will be something for everyone’s budget and taste.
Opening reception: Saturday, December 7th from 10 am to 5 pm. In addition to the exhibition, the gallery will be hosting a Three Penny Pictures pop-up event with renowned gallery artist Charlotte “Stinkerbell” Couturier.
“We’re excited to share our annual Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a carefully curated selection of stunning photographs that are sure to delight recipients of all ages and tastes.
Whether you’re shopping for a friend, family member, or special someone, we’re confident you’ll find something perfect. If any items catch your eye, let us know—we’d be happy to help you select and wrap up the ideal gift for your loved ones” – Arnika Dawkins
Dixon Gallery & Gardens | Art on Fire
Saturday, October 19, 7 pm
4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN
Gather on the Dixon’s South Lawn for live music, food, drinks, and an art sale, all while enjoying a roaring bonfire. This event supports the Dixon’s art and horticulture programs which include dozens of community outreach programs for over 100,000 individuals yearly. General Admission: $75 | Dixon Members: $60 | Hot Spot (VIP): $250
Hot Spot (VIP) tickets include entry to Hot Off The Wall, the VIP Preview Sale with the Artists on
Monday, October 14, 5:30 pm (VIP ticket required for entry)
CPA’s 8×10 Fundraising Exhibition
Center for Photographic Art
Sunset Center
Carmel, CA
September 12 – October 1, 2024
Reception: Saturday, September 14, 4-6pm
Auction closes: October 1 at 1:46pm EST
Morris Amaryllis, 2024 – pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf, 1/10, framed to 10×8
Locust was on of 47 photographs chosen by the Royal Photographic Society from the last three International Photography Exhibitions for inclusion in an exhibition at the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey.
Fox Talbot Museum
Lacock, Chippenham, UK
On view June 29, 2024 – April 27th, 2025
‘‘The IPE is the longest-running photography exhibition in the world, so taking elements of recent editions to the Home of Photography is very special. This reinforces the strong relationship between the RPS and the National Trust’s Lacock Abbey, the family home of William Henry Fox Talbot, an honorary Fellow of the RPS, whose experiments saw the birth of the basis of photography in Britain.” – Dan Jones, CEO of the RPS.
The International Photography Exhibition has been held almost every year since 1854 and is the longest running exhibition of its kind in the world. In the early years, the exhibition included work from some of the world’s most eminent photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand.
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The Colorado Photographic Arts Center
1200 Lincoln Street, Denver, CO
Print Auction opens for online bidding: April 18th
Pop Up Exhibition: April 18 – May 2
Cocktail Party, Print Auction, Hal Gould Award to Carol Keller: May 2, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Tickets & Online Auction
“Personal art collections are always a form of self portraiture and our new exhibition is no exception. It’s prodigious; about wonder, wit, moments, connections to individual artists, and they all have a dreamy and whimsical perspective. The romanticism of the collector shines through. The images also speak about the process of making art and the breadth or modes of expression in contemporary photography. The viewer will notice that there is an optimism throughout the compilation that makes spending time with these photographs delightful. It speaks to Tognarelli’s heart and eye.” — Denise Froehlich, Director of MMPA
The Maine Museum of Photographic Art
15 Middle Street, Portland, ME
April 5 – May 25
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 5-8 PM
Collectors Talks: Friday, April 19 + Friday, May 17, 5-8PM
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“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
“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
“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
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.
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
Into the Mist
Catherine Couturier Gallery
On view June 4 – August 31
Opening Reception:
June 4, 11am – 4pm CT
2635 Colquitt St, Houston, TX
Catherine Couturier Gallery is delighted to present Into the Mist, an exhibition of new work by gallery artist Wendi Schneider.
In her latest series, Schneider offers glimpses of respite amidst the vague unknowing that has defined living in the time of COVID. She ventured into the mountains of North Carolina at the end of Summer 2020 to find a reprieve in shinrin-yoku, the Japanese term for the practice of forest bathing. The photographs captured on a drive amongst the trees and fog inspired Into the Mist.
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.