Brooke Schmidt works with vintage books and fabrics, wax, and found objects both manmade and from nature, and incorporates hand and machine sewing into her pieces. Her detailed, labor intensive sculptures and altered books often include narrative prose and poetry with layered meanings. Present-day life, childhood experiences, memories, and her extensive travels fuel explorations of such themes as solitude, awkwardness, vulnerability and self-discovery. She uses symbols and objects that carry the possibility of multiple narratives or interpretations. She invites the viewer to seek their own story: to recognize references, objects and feelings similar or disparate to their own and to discover their own insights and connections.
Schmidt's sculptures, works on paper and collaborations have been featured in galleries and museums locally and internationally. Her sculpture Whereabouts won the Ellen Lee Walker Amelia Prize for Sculpture at the Woodemere Art Museum in 2010, and in 2009, her sculpture The Conversation was purchased by the Jersey City Museum and is now part of their permanent collection. Her recent shows include Art From Found Objects at the Monmouth Museum, NJ, Dear Fleisher, 4 x 6 Inches of Art at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, and Naked In New Hope at the Sidetracks Art Gallery in New Hope, PA. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Art Association of Harrisburg in 2011. Schmidt works from her studio in Wyndmoor, PA.
Mixed Media, Paintings & Drawing, Works on Paper
Wyndmoor, PA 19038
Phone: 215-500-5769
