Circadian Rhythm was created between Jovi Schnell /Story & Artwork, Phoebe Tooke /Video , Wayne Grim / Music & Michelle Yi Martin /Projections. Natural Rhythm is an exhibition of four animation videos, four works seemingly unrelated, yet informed by the inherent harmony and dissonance of universal patterns, of natural rhythms, and the ways in which they interconnect, construct, interrupt, and disperse the stories we tell. The exhibition is part of the Light Year series that is streamed online and projected on the Manhattan Bridge. Curated by Michael Lehman .
Electric Space Gardeners - Sci-fi sound sketch.
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Visions for a sci-fi opera project take shape!
Excited to share some more flavors in the works for the ELECTRIC SPACE GARDENERS opera. The Plant Oracle’s tunic!
ELECTRIC SPACE GARDENERS An experimental multi-media sci-fi opera that explores contemporary ecological and bioethical anxieties dispatched from a virtual garden.
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
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.