Perceive Me Kristine Schomaker
January 25 - February 22, 2020
Ronald H Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State University LA
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles CA 90032
Dr. Mika Cho, Director, Fine Arts Gallery
Email: art-gallery@calstatela.edu
Instagram: @kristineschomaker
"Perceive Me" focuses on notions of self-worth, validation and the idea that we value our identity based on how we imagine others perceive us. This project became a performance about challenging our own confidence, judgment and criticism.
“Perceive Me” is more than an exhibition, a catalog and Instagram posts. It is a platform for empowerment, for owning who we are, for being unique and authentic, for taking back our bodies in the #metoo movement, for being true, powerful and strong no matter what body shape, size, color, gender we are. “Perceive Me” is for everyone.
I have invited 60 artists to collaborate by creating nude portraits of me. They have responded with paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, video and 3D printing. Posing and modeling for these 60 artists, I felt like a supermodel. I felt thin, bold, beautiful, classy, elegant, sexy... The artwork was amazing. Then I looked in the mirror...
"Perceive Me" opens with an exhibition at California State University, Los Angeles January 25, 2020. The show will also travel to Coastline Community College in January 2021, Mesa Community College in March 2021 and the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster in October 2021.
The amazing artists who I collaborated with include: Amanda Mears, Anna Kostanian, Anna Stump, Ashley Bravin, Austin Young, Baha Danesh, Betzi Stein, Bibi Davidson, Bradford J Salamon, Caron G Rand, Carson Grubaugh, Catherine Ruane, Chris Blevins-Morrison, Christina Ramos, Cynda Valle, Daena Title, Daggi Wallace, Dani Dodge, Debbie Korbel, Debby/Larry Kline, Debe Arlook, Diane Cockerill, Donna Bates, Elizabeth Tobias, Ellen Friedlander, Emily Wiseman, Geneva Costa, Holly Boruck, J Michael Walker, Jane Szabo, Janet Milhomme, Jeffrey Sklan, Jesse Standlea, John Waiblinger, Jorin Bossen, K Ryan Henisey, Karen Hochman Brown, Kate Kelton, Kate Savage, Kerri Sabine-Wolf, Kim Kimbro, L Aviva Diamond, Leslie Lanxinger, Mara Zaslove, Marjorie Salvaterra, Martin Cox, Monica Sandoval, Nancy Kay Turner, Nurit Avesar, Phung Huynh, Rakeem Cunningham, Serena Potter, Sheli Silverio, Susan Amorde, Susan T. Kurland, Sydney Walters, Tanya Ragir, Tony Pinto, Vicki Walsh
BIO:
Kristine Schomaker is a Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, art historian and curator. She received her BA in Art History and MA in Studio Art from California State University Northridge where she studied under Betty Ann Brown, Alexandra Grant and Samantha Fields. Schomaker has been exhibiting her work since the late 1990’s. She has had solo exhibitions throughout Los Angeles: “Plus” at Ark Gallery in Altadena, “Mirror, Mirror!” Gallery H Phantom Galleries LA, Hawthorne, California, “And One Man in his time plays many parts” at the Los Angeles Art Association, “Plus” at Moorpark College Art Gallery, “A Comfortable Skin,” Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery UCLA, presented by UCLA Cultural Arts Commission, Los Angeles, California and “Ce n’est pas une peinture,” TRACTIONARTS, Los Angeles, California. Schomaker has also been featured in numerous exhibitions including most recently, Coastline Community College Art Gallery, Launch LA, Golden West College Art Gallery, LAVA projects, Keystone Art Space, Claremont Graduate University Art Gallery, San Diego Art Institute, Surrogate Projects, 18th Street Art Center, Durden and Ray, We Rise, USC Keck, Blue Roof Studios, Shoebox Projects, Monte Vista Projects, Gabba Gallery, Finishing Concepts, PØST, Artshare LA, Brainworks Gallery, BLAM, MuseuMM, Torrance Art Museum, I-5 Gallery and Angel City Brewery.
In addition to being a practicing artist Schomaker is the founder of Shoebox PR, oversees and curates an alternative art space for Shoebox Projects at the Brewery in Los Angeles, she is an independent curator, founder of the online contemporary art magazine Art and Cake and sits on two non-profit art boards: CSUN Arts Alumni Association and the Brewery Artwalk Association. Kristine has taught art history at Antelope Valley College and Pasadena City College, formed an artist collective in Los Angeles and has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions throughout Southern California.
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