http://www.rachel-schmidt.com/home daily 1.0 2023-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612456247485-FHWT9ZP3D4Q7SHKWZPHR/image-asset.jpeg Home - TRIADS Triads is a film short documenting a series of performances composed by Ledah Finck and curated by Hannah Davis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612456607589-2ERSLAV2GVLFOLT4P8HA/image-asset.jpeg Home - Out of Balance Out of Balance is an installation by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara. The artwork is made of projected video, sound, paint, chrome vinyl, cast paper rocks, and wrapped trash. The piece was created in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612469423356-I23QTE9Y2Y7FKJM7RW5B/Bristle+Cone+Pine+pic.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1694969204613-WZ0LKD2PFUWBZED0AR60/Scavenger+Deities-Sound+Heart.jpg Home http://www.rachel-schmidt.com/installation daily 0.75 2021-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612362814552-M530SIDFTA64TTDNC97V/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Vanishing Points "Vanishing Points" is a site specific installation by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara created for the 2020 Spring Break Art Show and was curated by Dawne Langford. The piece consists of projected videos, onto paper cast trash, trash wrapped in images of nature and faux-gilded frames, fabric, and fake fireplace with chairs. The central video is a since 3 channel artwork that was tailored to project inside the gilded trash frames. The piece was installed in a room 8'W x 16'L x 8'H in NYC, NY in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612362814552-M530SIDFTA64TTDNC97V/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Vanishing Points "Vanishing Points" is a site specific installation by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara created for the 2020 Spring Break Art Show and was curated by Dawne Langford. The piece consists of projected videos, onto paper cast trash, trash wrapped in images of nature and faux-gilded frames, fabric, and fake fireplace with chairs. The central video is a since 3 channel artwork that was tailored to project inside the gilded trash frames. The piece was installed in a room 8'W x 16'L x 8'H in NYC, NY in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612362953529-XCAWL64H1S6ZS7G3X0MJ/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Out of Balance Out of Balance is an installation by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara. The artwork is made of looped video, sound, paint, chrome vinyl, cast paper rocks, and wrapped trash. The piece was created in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612363027737-GQ8EE63PAGGOR481KHN9/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Breach Breach is a projection drawing by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara. The artwork is 7'W x 4'H and consists of projected video, sound, pencil and watercolor on wood panel. The piece was created in 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612381706420-09BS5HLV3NGC3DMH4Z06/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Cairn Sounds Cairn Sounds is a single channel video projection based installation and performance space. Kevin O'Meara created the soundscape and is performing on the drum set inside the installation. The performance features, Kevin O'Meara, Rowan Corbett, Amanda Jiron-Murphy and the artist, Rachel Schmidt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612363340393-2HT4XGS5VZ296JODIHLE/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Pulling Back the Lace This single channel video installation features soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara and is made with chrome vinyl and printed drawings. The artwork was completed in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612381618872-1XM0WB143DSKHM6GQY7N/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Inserted Artwork is a single channel video projection tailored to fit with adhesive backed prints and features soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara. This piece was completed in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612381912355-VKJ3H2KLEZ9EQW9AUA0O/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Trash Cairn Trash Cairn is a site-specific installation completed in 2019 featuring a single channel video projection, sheer voile, paper cast trash, LED lights, and soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612381982603-GT8DGKF1I96QW51IS3XD/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Forget Me Not This installation features a single channel looped video projection onto lace, sheer voile, paper cast rocks, and chrome vinyl. Soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara with a poem written by the artist, Rachel Schmidt, and read by Kenny Lindsay. This piece has a footprint of 6’ wide by 6’ deep by 10’ tall and runs on a 19:38 minute loop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612363183515-UAT3PC43TCXFRWS8H3O4/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Water Memories Itinerant Office Water Memories Itinerant Office is a collaborative project and installation by Basurama and Rachel Schmidt. The artwork was installed at the Former Residence to the Spanish Ambassador in Washington DC in 2019 and was apart of the Fair Water Project. This double channel video projection based installation, features hundreds of water bottles collected by the embassy and used in the final exhibition. Through a series of workshops around DC, participants shared their memories of water, which inspired the video content and is the audio heard throughout the installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612382089603-GDAGKHLVE28YSWW9R0S2/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Drowning Drowning is a multi-media installation completed in 2017. The piece features looped masked video footage of a fish pond projected onto hundreds of paper objects cast from the artist's plastic waste. This particular installation is set in a room that is 30' x 20' with a 15' ceiling and uses 5 projectors. The completion of this work was supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612382188977-JHUBEKS4EEDS9JWNL7VR/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Tension Tension is a multi-media installation completed in 2017. The piece contains several flat wooden sculptures with pulsing LED lights that are spread throughout the space. The wall mounted sculpture has a single channel looped video projected onto it that features content from an artist residency in Taipei, Taiwan. This particular installation is set in a room 30' x 23' with 15' ceiling. The completion of this work was supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612381851505-8KUSCQTO52ISUQQQQSJ2/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Monument to Picnics Monument for Picnics recreates an outdoor picnic scene from the early twenty-first century by using recycled materials to create an immersive future landscape. This piece was installed at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building as a part of the By the People Festival hosted by Halcyon in June, 2018. Music in video is by Sligo Creek Stompers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612381782139-Z8L246B7KRCE39730ZEC/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Distort Displace Distort Displace is a temporary public art installation and interactive space at the Arlington Arts Center completed in 2018. The installation features glowing platforms covered in astro-turf and lawn chairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612382271084-8KR86MURZGT7DBM2TE6N/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Drifters Drifters is a site-specific installation created while in residence at the Taipei Artist Village in Taipei, Taiwan in February 2017. Large tissue paper cast sculptures sit on glowing LED light bases and hang from the ceiling surrounded by a tissue paper canopy. Two looped projected videos of swimming sharks are projected onto the sculptures and across the space, which is approximately 15' x 23'. Drew Doucette created the audio, and I worked with the Baltimore Aquarium to collect the footage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612362562328-Z8GALLCAJ3VCGFFC0H2L/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Nostalgia Monument: Float Trip Edition Nostalgia Monument: Float Trip Edition features five months of the artist's non-biodegradable trash covered with images of manicured and natural flora including grasses, mosses, leaves, and brush. A looped video projection of people on a float trip is viewed from lawn chairs with the trash spread through out the space. The audio features soundscapes created by Red Sky studio and was completed in 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612362562314-9I04ES20ZVLTCOBF9L9N/image-asset.octet-stream Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612362668960-HK1E4GOLZZM56L9VZGS2/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Endless Banquet Endless Banquet is six-channel video/sculptural installation featuring footage of sharks projected through an assortment of glasses spread out on a ¾ circular table. The light refraction is caused by the projected light being curved through the glasses. The hanging screen is 11 feet in diameter hanging at 7.5 feet off the ground and the table is 4 feet tall. This piece is installed at School 33 in Baltimore, MD in 2016 and the film footage was made possible by the Baltimore Aquarium, who granted me access to their space. Drew Doucette created the audio for the installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612382371520-3LSSSP0FJ6M4NRPIGAQN/image-asset.jpeg Installation - Ice Dreams L.A. Ice Dreams: L.A. is a site specific installation on the rooftop of the GAIT LA studio building in the fashion/flower district of downtown Los Angeles. The installation featured two videos projected onto two elevator towers with the city skyline visible between them. There are glacier like sculptures spread out on the roof top that had LED lights underneath that were programmed to slowly pulse. The installation included a soundtrack created in collaboration with the band, Beauty Pill, which is the audio heard in the video. http://www.rachel-schmidt.com/video daily 0.75 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612361579589-L134IRQS6ZU9Y4QCEJP7/image-asset.octet-stream Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612361579589-L134IRQS6ZU9Y4QCEJP7/image-asset.octet-stream Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612361779323-9V5RRNSMB2N4XDAQBS3B/image-asset.jpeg Video - Triads Film Short TRIADS is a film short by Rachel Schmidt responding to a three part performance series composed by Ledah Fink and curated by Hannah Davis. This collaborative piece incorporates the final audio piece created by Ledah Fink and features visuals from the three performances and the spaces. This artwork was completed in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612361971530-NB93QJFW28EC3GVB0USX/image-asset.jpeg Video - Carillon "Silent Signal" Silent Signal is a video created by Rachel Schmidt in collaboration with Ken Quam, the author of the musical, and was created for the launch of his album Carillon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612361579606-9UCBRIS3XESVTVUST5RI/image-asset.jpeg Video - Future Myth Future Myth is a video piece by Rachel Schmidt. This artwork was originally exhibited in the solo exhibition Forgotten Futures, which focused on the fantastical tale of the last elephant 500 years in the future. The piece runs on a 1:41min loop and was completed in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612362167772-EH5RD0QB5TD1JI7638OY/image-asset.jpeg Video - A Walk in Your Shoes: Rachel Schmidt This video short created by Leon and Angela Belt examines the practice of Rachel Schmidt in 2014 for the preparation of a solo exhibition in Washington DC. http://www.rachel-schmidt.com/vitae daily 0.75 2023-09-17 http://www.rachel-schmidt.com/press daily 0.75 2020-04-15 http://www.rachel-schmidt.com/new-home daily 0.75 2021-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b0256fe4b03bad691b73e9/1612384621402-STLTB8NWW7X216PFQX85/image-asset.jpeg Home