I'm excited to share my new board game, ANYTHING GROWS! 🌱 is set to transform the El Segundo Public Library into a space for exploration & creativity. I'm inviting players to discover & transform their findings & senses into collage whose shapes will sprout & shapeshift into a Sensory Garden mural for the library. An adult & teen workshop will kick off my residency, really looking forward to what grows up! 🌱🎲 See images of the game being played! HERE
JOVI SCHNELL "ALL TOGETHER NOW", PAINT, THREAD AND COLLAGE ON CANVAS, 16 x 20 in, 2019
The Guerrero Gallery - "The Game Show" - Sarah Hotchkiss | Brandon Olsen | Jovi Schnell, Sept. 28th - Oct. 26th 2019
As we continue to unravel the often-problematic mythos that surround the tales we’ve told ourselves about modern abstraction, the painters grouped within the exhibition The Game Show utilize a radical sense of playfulness in staking a space within the sphere of abstract painting that eschews with the baggage and the tight-lipped seriousness of modernism, instead allowing us to breathe in some of the buoyant helium-tinged air being pumped onto the nearest studio set.
Schnell’s latest work explores the links between technology, humans, nature and the artist’s ever-present biological fascination. In an era of climate catastrophe, Schnell’s works beautifully clamor for an equality and harmony between all subjects–from plant to animal and data to energy, all have agency and an inherent reliance on another, balancing in complex systems of reliance and support.