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THE PAST YEAR INSPIRED AILI SCHMELTZ TO INVESTIGATE THE LANDSCAPES SUROUNDING HER HIGH DESERT STUDIO UNCOVERING NEW MEANINGS IN ITS HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT. CONSIDERING THE VERY NOTION OF SURVIVAL, SCHMELTZ BECAME FASCINATED WITH THE WOMEN WHO CHANGED CALIFORNIA FOREVER.
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Aili Schmeltz
Charley, 2021Acrylic and thread on pieced canvas over panel
36 x 48 in.
91.4 x 121.9 cm -
Aili Schmeltz at her studio. Photograph by Lance Gerber.
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Aili Schmeltz
Becket, 2021Acrylic and thread on pieced canvas over panel
14 x 11 x 1 1/2 in.
35.6 x 27.9 x 3.8 cm -
Sewn Constructions features Aili Schmelt's newest works combine painting, collage, and sewing to create all together new hybrids of painting and sculpture in her continued fundamental investigation of pattern and form. Conflating notions of traditional “woman’s work” and the mark-making practices and monochromatic pallet of Minimalist painters; these wall-based works dazzle in their subtle radiance and undulation of color. Created from individually pieced and painted bits of canvas; sewn and together bound though repeated stitching organized in linear rows and meandering fields they represents Schmeltz's reconstruction of the lost parts of our history – the women who worked to make the West better for all.
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Aili Schmeltz
Finley, 2021Acrylic and thread on pieced canvas over panel
48 x 36 in.
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
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My paintings are inspired by forms found in nature and serve as small monuments, hand tended floral devotionals honoring lives within the feminist continuum
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Aili Schmeltz: Sewn Constructions
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