Jovi Schnell & Creative Gardeners - Community that helped shape the designs of the mural, Sensory Garden, Painted frieze mural, 3 x 33 ft, El Segundo Public Library, Los Angeles, CA 2023
The creation of the Sensory Garden frieze/mural involved a board game that I invented called ANYTHING GROWS! Part scavenger hunt- part collage workshop, the players translated their findings from the Seed Cards from the game onto paper flowers. The players results continued to be shaped by the Action Cards of the game in my studio forming the basis for the works co-created imagery.
Jovi Schnell, Mysta Quest Traveler, Mural 9 x 15 ft., Neuro 42, San Francisco, CA, 2021
Mysta Quest Traveler, invites the viewer's eye through a playful schematic of associations connected with the journey & innovations of the company Neuro42. The mural grafts and interconnects the language of brain anatomies, Mobile MRI Imaging Technologies, AI & Robotics within a visual language exemplary of the company’s innovative & interdisciplinary intersections at the forefront of its industry.
Jovi Schnell, What’s Doing Daisy Chain?! Mural 9.5 x 43 feet, AIR Facebook Residency, San Francisco, CA, 2019
"What's Doing Daisy Chain!?" Facebook AIR Program, Mural, 9.5’ x 43’, San Francisco, CA 2019. Click on image for video & pics. https://www.instagram.com/p/B29oVe-FF-C/
1: a string of daises with stems linked to form a chain
2: an interlinked series of computer peripherals
This mural departs from the definitions of Daisy Chain to create a new hybridized Plant whose forms and cross-sections evoke the signaling and processing of communication. Toggling between the language of digital networks, plants and the human form, the playful and semiabstract networks of this organism seek to express a new Primordial Plant whose schematic branches give way to protean realms.
Jovi Schnell, West Tampa Promenade, Artwork Concept + Design for Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, Tampa, FL 2018. Urban Land Institute Award Finalist 2020. Commissioned through the City of Tampa Arts. See News sections for further descriptions. Stephen Miotto, Mosaic | Andrew DeWitt, Ceramics I Granada Tile, Custom Encaustic Cement Tile, BOBOSART, Project Management
Mosaic detail, Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, Tampa, FL, Fabricated by Miotto Mosaics, custom fish tiles by Andrew Dewitt
Jovi Schnell, There Slipped Saturn A Perpetual Tock - a.k.a. The Saturn Clock, Mural on concrete, Approx. 3,500 ft. SOMA West Skatepark, San Francisco, CA,. San Francisco Arts Commission. 2014
Photo: Ethan Kaplan. The imagery for the mural was inspired by the sites former victorian era amusement park, Woodward's Gardens. During its heyday the park offered its visitors a museum of natural curiosities, zoo, exotic gardens and the largest west coast skating rink of its time.
Jovi Schnell. The Valley of the Lilacs, 7 x 11.5 ft. Porcelain & glass mosaic mural, US Embassy, Belgrade, Serbia commissioned through the Art in Embassies program, 2012. Fabricator: Miotto Mosaics
Jovi Schnell. Evolves The Luminous Flora, 15 x 65 ft. Tutubi Plaza, StreetPrint: Stamped painted asphalt, San Francisco Art Commission, 2011.
Jovi Schnell, Two Points of Beacon, 13 x 17 ft. Diptych, painting #1, acrylic mixed media mural with collage components, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Exhibition: Moving Mountains by Kicking Rocks
Jovi Schnell. Eyeshot valley of the Micromacro Maiden, 10 x 28 ft. acrylic mixed media mural with collage components, 2004.
Exhibition: Entropic Meltdown/Happy Sadness, Stedelijk Bureau Museum, Holland
Jovi Schnell, Physical Plant II, 13 x 17 ft. acrylic, mixed media mural with collage components, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2002.
Exhibition: Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art