I've been obsessing over a certain few things for the past 10 years... profound experiences I've had at Arlington National Cemetery (when I was 13), the old Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Hitchcock films (specifically North by Northwest, Vertigo and Rear Window), Jochen and Esther Gerz's Monument against Fascism in Hamburg, the Washington Monument, concentration camps and American suburbs, the use and misuse of pattern within contemporary art and the art historical canon... ruins, the pyramid and the diamond (tangibly and symbolically), the repeating form as analogous with the failures of history... plus the work of Andrew Schoultz, Ryan Travis Christian, Chris Johanson, Steven Parrino, George Grosz, Giorgio di Chirico, Piet Mondrian, Alan Moore, Alex Lukas, Ben Shahn, Barry McGee, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Tauba Auerbach, Francis Alys, Chris Duncan, Georges Seurat, Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Picasso. And a few more. I obsess.
At any rate, look at these works in progress. Then cruise over to the other website I'm working on and look over some projects I did from 2008-2010:
I'm looking for some places to show. Drawings, installations, publications. Hit me up.
louismschmidt at gmail
the 8.5" x 11" sketch. scroll down for the finished 22" x 30" drawing.
working on a raised brick pattern
the 8.5" x 11" sketch. scroll down for the 15" x 15" finished drawings: one straight, two with blobs.
another 8.5" x 11" sketch. finished 22" x 30" drawing is below. keep on scrollin'.
trying to come up with a decent wave pattern. not too into this one.
I'm gonna work idea this into a big drawing. dark rocky/landscape shape at the bottom, window/building pattern above.
just an idea. it's not really working.
another horizon line blob disturbing a pattern. I'll work it out.
this one reads "Christians kill" (not the other way around)
working on a house pattern, too.
silly, I know. I still like it despite the fact.
whatever, pool.
a North by Northwest pattern, pushed downwards a bit.
slightly wonky perfection. I gotta make a bigger drawing of this.
reminiscent of my undergrad sketches. deep thoughts, right?
possible sticker design
not possible sticker
this image, and the next few, are just crappy snapshots of the "real" drawings- many are still in progress- including the bigger teal blob and the smaller blobs with figures. all of the small figure drawings are still in progress. don't judge.
I'm pretty stoked on these two. Ink on paper, 22" x 30", 2012.
detail
detail
this one's pretty great, too. You'll have to imagine all these pieces floating on walls covered floor to ceiling with similar patterns. wallpaper made from xeroxes of pattern drawings. hopefully someone will ask me to do this in a real gallery. I'll just start holding my breath...
the North by Northwest pattern... came to me subconsciously. realized after the fact how heavily Hitchcock has imprinted upon my brain. 15" x 15", Ink on Paper, 2012.
