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Artist Bio
A California native, Douglas Schneider is known for combining blocks of color with detailed images. In his work, Schneider says, he is able to employ his draftsmanship and his passion for expressionism simultaneously. However, unlike other stylists whom Schneider admires (de Kooning, Cezanne, Degas, Rauschenberg and Richter) Schneider’s styles coexist in one painting.
“The first thing I want to do is get the energy out- like crazy jazz, or parts of Hendrix- the paint just starts flowing,” he said. “Then some form indicates itself- it’s hard to describe- but I have a whole collection of imagery: old wooden toys, issues of Look magazine, newspapers from a long time ago. I’ll put up things that might work with the abstraction and start painting.”
“One image balances off another, like Hans Hoffman said, and the instant you have two lines on a canvas you have a tension that suggests the beginning of a narrative,” Schneider said. “From there you have endless possibilities.”
As one art historian observed in a catalog of Schneider’s work, the artist’s use of illusionistic perspective against a backdrop of raw expressionistic brushwork gives us the impression we can look deep into the canvas, only to be thrust back to the surface.
As recollections of a small town childhood, Schneider’s paintings are littered with traces of home and school: apples, blackboards, front porches and little girls. With bold and expressive sleights of hand, Schneider combines the remains of earlier renditions on the canvas, partially deleted, with sharp-focus realism and half-formed sketches. At a garage sale, he once bought over 1,000 jazz albums and lots of sheet music. He collects old toys, musical instruments, hats and books on birds. He also has piles of Life and Look magazines from the 1930’s through the 1970’s.
The horses in his work are a tip of the hat to Schneider’s Native American grandfather (from which Schneider inherits one-quarter Cherokee), who taught him to ride and who cherished the feeling of running free across open country. By the second grade, Schneider was being encouraged by his teachers to paint. By fifth grade, he was painting murals for his elementary school. The last day of graduate school at the California College of Arts and Crafts, a dealer saw Schneider’s work and one month later, the young artist had his first show.
Schneider’s paintings now hang in the permanent collection of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art and in numerous private collections.
Douglas Schneider
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1988-1991
California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC) BFA
1983-1985
The Art Center, Pasadena, CA
1981-1983
California State University at Long Beach
Professional Experience
2000
Instructor, Drawing, Academy of Art, San Francisco
1990-1991
Instructor, Life Drawing, California College of Arts and Crafts
1983
Instructor, Basic Drawing, California State University at Long Beach
Awards
1998
Recent Graduate of Distinction, California College of Arts and Crafts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
"Suburban Birthday Party" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
MW Galleries, Aspen, CO
2006
Go Go Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
Meyer- Milagros Gallery (now Diehl Gallery), Jackson, WY
2005
Kiddersmith Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Pac III Silpakorn University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2004
Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
2003
Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2002
Scott White Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2001
Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1999
Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996
Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, Sen Francisco, CA
1995
SFMoMA Artists Salon Exhibition
1995
Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Plaza Gallery Bank 0f Amerlca World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1994
Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Larry Evans Fine Art San Francisco, CA
1991
Isabel Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts
1990
Tecoah Bruce Gallery/Oliver Art Center Oakland, CA
1989
Isabel Percy West Gallery California, College of Arts and Crafts
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
"Quorum" at Limn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
"Code Switching" at Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007
"Code Switching" at Red House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA with "Quorum"
2006
"Whos's Afraid of San Francisco" at Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
"Blood for Art" at Scope, Miami, FL with the "Quorum" collective
Selected Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Fisher Collection, San Francisco, CA
The Anderson Collection, San Francisco, CA
Kent and Vicki Logan, Vail, CO
Jim and Patt Aitchison, Moraga, CA
David and Susan Coulter, New York, NY
Nancy Constlne, San Francisco, CA
Charles and Rebecca Daggs, Lafayette, CA
Dixon and Carol DolI, San Francisco, CA
Joe and Sandy Gandolfo, Palos Verdes Estates, CA
Chaim and Elisheva Gur-Arieh, Piedmont, CA
Tom and Kate Kelly Kleln, San Francisco, CA
The Lillie Family Collection, Atherton, CA
BIII and Jeanne McFarlane, Pleasanton, CA
Martln Muller, San Francisco, CA
Steven and Kim Schow, Mill Valley, CA
Staglin Family Vineyard, Rutherford, CA
Larry and Joyce Stupskl, Tiburon, CA
Otto and Yvonne Tschudi, London, England
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