Brooke Schmidt's first one-person exhibition, A Narration of Boundaries: Paintings and Drawings, took place in Lambertville, New Jersey, in 2004. Since that time her sculptures and works on paper have been featured in shows and galleries locally and in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and Reading. She was recently in New Faces: Emerging Philadelphia Artists at City Hall in Philadelphia and won second place for her sculpture Water Over the Dam at the Art Association of Harrisburg, an exhibition juried by Nat Trotman, assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Schmidt has instructed in the New Hope area and currently teaches at Abington Art Center. She has held assistantships in the United States and Italy.
Schmidt works with tactile, natural materials such as paper, fabric, wood, and wax, and often includes sewing in her pieces. Although many of her works are quite small, they can be labor intensive as she includes elements from found books, hand and machine sewing, and detailed drawing or painting. Most of her sculptures include or are made from found book paper, which she enjoys reinventing into a personal narrative with layered meanings. Interpreting such themes as awkwardness, vulnerability, and the relationship of the individual to others and to themselves, her work suggests metaphors and stories to viewers. However, she also invites viewers to seek their own stories, to recognize references to places, objects or feelings similar or disparate to their own, and to discover their own insights and connections.
Mixed Media, Paintings & Drawing, Works on Paper
Wyndmoor, PA 19038
Phone: 215-500-5769
