Fabrice Marcolini is pleased to present Ryan Schneider’s first solo exhibition at Artcore.

With this latest series, Schneider creates a canon of mostly landscape based painting, extending his repertoire from portraits in interiors by both directly and subconsciously referring to the philosophical reconciliation of nature and culture.

Schneider’s work is process oriented from its conception to the actual completion. “Each piece is a collage of situations and emotional states, laid onto canvas in paint” (Schneider). It begins with an immaterial sorting process through raw emotional materials — the fabric of dreams and daydreams as well as personal events, at times as inconspicuous as a meal or walk in the park. Somewhat unnoticeably, during this process, the personal becomes universal, reaching a greater integrity by extrapolating the human element of our habits, anxieties, yearnings and fears.

By creating a dialogue between the layers of his very own idiosyncrasies, sexual desires and reasoning, Ryan Schneider unveils the magnitude of the so often underestimated psychological ‘shearing layers’ a person can have. Schneider’s unyielding quest for answers leads us seductively further and further beneath the persona and into the subconscious of our existence — peeling the skin of our defense mechanisms membrane by membrane. Synonymously and congruously, his technique lays out bright colors with bold brushstrokes, creating paintings with impasto and crusted with paint. Analogous to the fermented sediments of our psyche, these works show the process of their making and the marks of their disposition. Using a palette knife, Schneider carves deeply into them, writing letters and words visible on their surface and beneath the multiple layers of paint. Leaving the picture plane similar to an archaeological excavation site — the crust and mantle, ripped violently and virtuously apart by these cutti ngs and shavings, reveal unprotected layers formed earlier in the process and colors the viewer barely noticed before. In both his interiors and exteriors, Schneider’s work echoes a raw intimacy and a longing for a belonging that may only be accessible for the viewer by surrendering to the excessive force of his method and its underlying dispositional beliefs.

Ryan Schneider was born in 1980 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Schneider earned his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited in cities around the world, including New York City, London, Seoul, and Copenhagen. He currently lives and works in New York City.