Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Connected, 2020, Fabric, thread, wood beads, rope, earrings, fluff 102 x 10 x 7 in 259.1 x 25.4 x 17.8 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Eye Portrait, 2020 Reeds, branches, wire, resin, mirror, crystals, lamé cord, linen cord, rope 40 x 24 x 16 in 101.6 x 61 x 40.6 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Glance Back, 2020 Branches, reeds, wire, resin, linen cord, lamé cord, earrings, crystals, fake flowers, chain 50 x 51 x 13 in 127 x 129.5 x 33 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Glance Back, 2020 Branches, reeds, wire, resin, linen cord, lamé cord, earrings, crystals, fake flowers, chain 50 x 51 x 13 in 127 x 129.5 x 33 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Glance Back, 2020 Branches, reeds, wire, resin, linen cord, lamé cord, earrings, crystals, fake flowers, chain 50 x 51 x 13 in 127 x 129.5 x 33 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Glance Back, 2020 Branches, reeds, wire, resin, linen cord, lamé cord, earrings, crystals, fake flowers, chain 50 x 51 x 13 in 127 x 129.5 x 33 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Portraits, 2018 Upholstery fabric, fluff, thread, earrings 25 x 34 x 4 in 63.5 x 86.4 x 10.2 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Portraits, 2018 Upholstery fabric, fluff, thread, earrings 25 x 34 x 4 in 63.5 x 86.4 x 10.2 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Talisman, 2020 Branches, resin, wire, mirror, linen cord, lamé cord, crystals, wire, chain 43 x 36 x 7 in 109.2 x 91.4 x 17.8 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, The Canary, 2020 Fired clay, wood, musical mechanism 6 1/2 x 9 x 7 in 16.5 x 22.9 x 17.8 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, The Canary, 2020 Fired clay, wood, musical mechanism 6 1/2 x 9 x 7 in 16.5 x 22.9 x 17.8 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, The Canary, 2020 Fired clay, wood, musical mechanism 6 1/2 x 9 x 7 in 16.5 x 22.9 x 17.8 cm
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Connected, 2020 Fabric, thread, wood beads, rope, earrings, fluff 102 x 10 x 7 in 259.1 x 25.4 x 17.8 cm
I flip ahead in a book I’ve only just started and am startled by a familiar name. I read a paragraph at the beginning of a chapter out of context and take it as a sign:
Day Something. Dreams about Cassie. I woke up and actually saw her stand at the door of the cave. Then she vanished; I mean became again the patterns of rock and sun-spots-in-my-eyes I’d been making her out of. Hallucinations aren’t just “seeing something”; they’re a special case of perception in which you work a little harder, that’s all. ¹
There is something about a human that is more electric than a photo, more convoluted than the most thorough biology. Mindy Rose Schwartz’s art is that ‘work a little harder’ version of seeing.
Sculpture of chalky bone and golden webs of tendon, these sculptures are pastoral and graven, spectral cat’s cradles dripping shadows.That thing in a movie when a spell is cast (or un-cast) and all at once vines stream and swirl and buds form and bloom? Something of that, the exhibition as the site of conjuring; artworks as tools of vision.
1. Russ, Joanna. We Who Are about to… London: The Women’s Press Science Fiction, 1987.
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