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landscape. Somewhere between Wichita Falls and Amarillo Texas. 1983
Ocean Park, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Ocean Park, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Ocean Park, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Stone Canyon, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Stone Canyon, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Stone Canyon, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
North of Montana Ave, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of North of Montana Ave, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Greenbriar, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Greenbriar, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Greenbriar, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Brokedown Palace, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Brokedown Palace, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Detail view of Brokedown Palace, 2025
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Oil on hemp 48” x 32”
Installation view of landscape. Somewhere between Wichita Falls and Amarillo Texas. 1983.
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Installation view of landscape. Somewhere between Wichita Falls and Amarillo Texas. 1983.
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Installation view of landscape. Somewhere between Wichita Falls and Amarillo Texas. 1983.
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Installation view of landscape. Somewhere between Wichita Falls and Amarillo Texas. 1983.
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Installation view of landscape. Somewhere between Wichita Falls and Amarillo Texas. 1983.
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
Pratt Institute, Steuben Galleries, May 2025
In 1983, my mother, Anne Louise Schneider, recorded in her sketchbook a journey across Texas, immortalizing a landscape in the space between two colors. Her drawings function as a portal through space and time, and serve as a basis of landscape. Somewhere between Wichita Falls and Amarillo Texas. 1983.
My paintings draw from the cities and places which are integral to my family's history – those that created me, my mother, and those before her. Through painting, the landscapes of Los Angeles beaches, California mountains, and Louisiana plains become ambiguous dreamscapes; they investigate places that only exist in memories and imaginations.
The figures in my paintings never interact with one another – they are isolated in a world of stark light and shadows of atemporal monuments. The coarse surfaces and dusty colors ground my paintings in reality while the act of erasure––scraping and removing paint from the figures––creates a feeling of surreal ghostliness. These spectral figures are purely interstitial, acting as markers of time in one single imagined moment. The figures are fixtures of time in environments that change around them. Mountains burn. Houses decay. Only remembered moments remain. Once I was loved, once I was alive, once I was here.
2024
Oil on hemp 38” x 28”
Oil on coarse linen 22” x 16”
Oil on coarse linen 20” x 16”
Oil on coarse linen 20” x 16”
Oil on coarse linen 23” x 16”
Oil on canvas 50” x 34”
Oil on canvas 42” x 22”
Oil on wood panel 18” x 24”
Oil on canvas 66” x 42”