Excited to share just one of the many sound sketches taking shape for an extraordinary collaborative project in progress. Composer: Wayne Grim Vocalist: Majel Connery Visuals: Jovi Schnell
JOVI SCHNELL "ALL TOGETHER NOW", PAINT, THREAD AND COLLAGE ON CANVAS, 16 x 20 in, 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.
A fun risograph poster 11 x 15.5 in. to remind myself, friends & family to get out into the real sun in the morning before jumping on any screens! This unique offering featured on Common Sense Media was made in an open edition in the spirit of a Public Service Announcement. Each print is hand initialed along with the year purchased. At the bottom of the poster it reads: “A Planetary Service Announcement From The Electric Space Gardeners.” Every risograph print has its own unique character and no two are entirely identical. Scoop one up here $40 + $10 Taxes, Shipping & Handling in the US. Here’s to Happy & Healthy circadian rhythms!
Excited to have some Electric Space Gardener books & custom Shape Zoo stuffs tabled with Oof Books this year at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair this year!
ELECTRIC SPACE GARDENERS is a speculative poem with 22 vivid risograph prints published by Jessica Bebenek at the Center for Expanded Poetics, Montreal, QC. To purchase pop in here As of 3/31/ Seven copies remain from an edition of 100. This book was carried at Skylight Books one of my favorite book shops here in Los Angeles!
