The Artist's Hand: photographs, films, and videos by Carrie Schneider

Carrie Schneider Self Portrait (Levitating), 2009, C-print (40" x 50")

Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

Carrie Schneider Recession, 2009, C-print (30" x 36")

Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

Carrie Schneider Miss America, 2009 C-print (30" x 40")

Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

NEW GALLERY SHOW

OPENING THIS FRIDAY AUGUST 20, 2010

Please join us at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art this Friday from 7 - 9 pm for the opening reception of Carrie Schneider's solo show: The Artist's Hand.  Meet the artist, enjoy some refreshments, and listen to the musical stylings of the Angela Walker Duo.  This event is free and open to the public.  The exhibit runs through September 26. 

CARRIE SCHNEIDER'S LOCAL CONNECTION

Carrie was born in Waukegan, IL in 1979 and graduated from Warren Township High School in 1997 as valedictorian.  In her senior year, she was co-editor-in-chief of the literary arts magazine, "Creations".  She was co-captain of the girls basketball team and was named to the News Sun's "All-County" team.  Her parents, Russ and Sue Schneider, still live in Gurnee, IL.

"Much of my work explores family, home and the relation of self to place, so the personal significance of getting to show my work for the first time in the community in which I was born and raised in not a small one."  Carrie Schneider 

Carrie won a Project Track Individual Artist's Grant from the Illinois Arts Council to help produce the exhibition.  For more information on Carrie, please see my blog entry dated: Monday July 26, 2010: Save the date.

Gallery Hours:

Monday - Thursday 8 am - 10 pm

Friday 8 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday 9 am - 4:30 pm

Sunday 1 - 5 pm 

Save the Date: Carrie Schneider Opening Friday August 20, 2010

Carrie Schneider, Untitled (library)

from the series: Derelict Self, 2006-07

C-print Collection of LFC/Marin Zimmmerman

The Artist's Hand: photographs, films & videos by Carrie Schneider will be opening in the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art on Friday August 20, 2010. Please come and meet the artist at a reception held from 7 - 9 pm.  Enjoy some refreshments and listen to music by The Angela Walker Duo. This event is free and open to the public.

Carrie Schneider's photographs and videos are deliberatively ambiguous narratives that mine the complexities of relationships - both romantic and familial.

"The hand takes on a personality of its own in Carrie Schneider's photographs and videos. Whether grasping or groping, caressing or scrubbing...the hand conveys a desire for connection..." Claudine Ise, writer

Carrie Schneider earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Upon graduating, Carrie attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Kuvataideakatemia (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts) in Helsinki, on a Fulbright Fellowship. Schneider is based in Chicago and Brooklyn. She is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.