Exhibition Open: April 9 - August 9
Opening Reception: April 16, 1-4pm
With live activations choreographed by Nicolas Blanc
EWNS
EWNS is an exploration of direction and dimension via line, texture, form, light and movement. EWNS stands for East, West, North, South and will be a site specific project that repurposes sculptural pieces from Schnabl’s PORTAL and VOLUTION series and will be activated with moving bodies on occasion throughout its showing.
ABOUT
Katrin Schnabl
I practice at the intersection of dance, fashion and visual art, exploring the sensory activation between space, movement and the body. I build membranes from sheer, tinted and assembled fabrics, aligning concepts to the human scale. These surfaces are then installed or can be worn, as well as specifically stretched over steel frames, where they become dimensional and kinetic paintings.
Centering the human body as a nexus and living instrument capable of amazing feats, I connect invisible with visible phenomena through an intuitive mathematical process which is expressed through pattern-tracing and -cutting; a non-verbal tool to process the complex, yet obvious matter of living and engaging with single-use plastics, chemical toxicity, and its chronic effects.
About Portal
The lines created by the stitched seams in Portal continue unto themselves, dip into and activate new shapes, recede and reappear, move with the light, and depend upon the viewer’s movement around the piece, always providing multiple perspectives.
“If I was a painter, this is how I would paint,” Schnabl explains. The dimensionality of the works give them a body, allowing her method of painting to extend beyond the canvas, making the pieces something in between a painting and an installation.
Her work was selected for inclusion in New American Painting Midwest Issue # 155. "Katrin Schnabl creates freestanding sculptural paintings out of colored transparent fabric -bringing abstartct painting into three-dimensional space" Hanna Klemm, Associate Curator, St. Louis Art Museum
