Current Exhibition

Aurel Schmidt

SELECTED WORKS BY Aurel Schmidt

Aurel Schmidt
Body Swallows World

2006

Pencil, colour pencil, acrylic on paper

46.4 x 72.4 cm

Executed with painstaking detail, Aurel Schmidt’s Body Swallows World, pictures a fairytale landscape turned nightmare. Rendered in coloured pencil with acrylic paint highlights Schmidt’s forest allures with the organic rhythms of vivification and decay, as thousands of tiny hand drawn bugs, worms, snakes, and creepy crawlies devour the scene. Reminiscent of Durer’s The Large Turf or Arcimboldo’s composite figures, Schmidt’s drawing combines beauty and horror in its microcosmic embellishment, creating a sense of awe in its meticulous craftsmanship and allegorical subject matter.

Aurel Schmidt's BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1982, Kamloops, BC, Canada
Lives and works in New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Summer Bummer, The Fireplace Project, 851 Springs Fireplace Road, East Hampton, New York

2008
Man Eater, Deitch Projects, 76 Grand St. New York

2007
Burn Outs, Deitch Projects, 96 Greene Street, New York
Body Swallows World, Peres Projects, 969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
New York Minute, Curated by Kathy Grayson, Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Ulitsa Obraztsova, Moscow
FaceMaker, Curated by Kathy Grayson, 8910 Washington Blvd, Culver City

2010
Art on Paper 2010, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Art Project, curated by Stacy Engman, The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NY
It’s all American, The New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art (NJ MoCA,) Curated Alex Gartenfeld and Haley Mellin, Paramount Theater, 1300 Ocean Drive, Asbery Park, New Jersey
Saccharine, Curated by Ana Finel Honigman and Nadja Velben, Grimmuseum, Fichte Strasse 2, Berlin
A.D.D. Attention Deficit Disorder, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, Italy
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, Curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, 945 Madison Ave, Manhattan, New York, New York

2009
Investigations of a Dog, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin,
New York Minute, Curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future Museum, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, Rome
Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co., Curated by Kineko Ivic, Via Pontaccio 19, Milan, Italy
Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gallery 3, 525 W 24th St, New York, NY
Get a Rope, CTRL Gallery, Curated by Kathy Grayson, 3907 Main Street, Houston

2008
Off, Off Bowery, Colette, 213 Rue Saint-Honore, Paris France,
Mail Order Monsters, Curated by Kathy Grayson, Max Wigram Gallery, 99 New Bond Street, London I Want Some Sugar in My Bowl, Asia Song Society, 45 Canal Street, New York, New York, August 9-August 24
My Happy Demons, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, 163 Eldridge street, New York, New York
Mail Order Monsters, Curated by Kathy Grayson, AMP Gallery, Epikourou 26 & Korinis 4, Athens

2007
Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Filellinon & Em Pappa street, Athens
Dream and Trauma, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

2006
Panic Room, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Filellinon & Em Pappa street, Athens, Greece
Tinyvices, Curated by Tim Barber, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, 39 Wooster Street,
New York