Guest Gallery November-December 2007
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The Guest Gallery will showcase the work of a guest artist each month or so. If you are
interested in showing as a guest artist, kindly submit five to ten JPEGs of your work
(any medium will be considered) and a short bio to contact@carminescarpa.com.
interested in showing as a guest artist, kindly submit five to ten JPEGs of your work
(any medium will be considered) and a short bio to contact@carminescarpa.com.
| Heather M. Schmaedeke |
| Paintings by |
| All works in this Guest Gallery Copyright (c) Heather M. Schmaedeke. All rights reserved. |
| Heather M. Schmaedeke's Website: hmschmaedeke.com Contact Heather M. Schmaedeke at pua_3@hotmail.com |
| No enlargements available |
Heather M. Schmaedeke is a professionally trained artist who received her B.A. in Fine Arts from
Saint Xavier University, Chicago. The paintings shown above are from a portfolio of work which was
created as a visual dairy to record her inner emotional landscape. The images draw their power from
the juxtaposition of unique compositional elements. The stylistic rendering of these elements lends
the work a dimension of the not quite wakeful state between consciousness and dreams. The colors
chosen reinforce the lyrical qualities of the individual compositions. Although the subject matter is
extremely personal to the artist, there are communal elements to the expressions to which the viewer
is enticed. This combination of composition and technique challenges the viewer to become actively
involved in the painting rather than allowing passive observation. A Chicago native, her work has
been exhibited nationally in galleries as well as in private collections.
Saint Xavier University, Chicago. The paintings shown above are from a portfolio of work which was
created as a visual dairy to record her inner emotional landscape. The images draw their power from
the juxtaposition of unique compositional elements. The stylistic rendering of these elements lends
the work a dimension of the not quite wakeful state between consciousness and dreams. The colors
chosen reinforce the lyrical qualities of the individual compositions. Although the subject matter is
extremely personal to the artist, there are communal elements to the expressions to which the viewer
is enticed. This combination of composition and technique challenges the viewer to become actively
involved in the painting rather than allowing passive observation. A Chicago native, her work has
been exhibited nationally in galleries as well as in private collections.