Video as Painting: The Art of Rosalind Schneider

Rosalind Schneider enters nature seeking the unexpected. Changes in light illuminate form. Reflection and shadow all play into the gathering of images. She gravitates to sites that carry a primeval power of nature. Although the images are site specific and relate to the time collected, they must also speak to a greater vision of place. Rosalind places herself in a chosen environment and allows it to direct her eye.


The gathered images are a sketchbook of ideas. Rosalind isolates and translates selected images creating new sequences to enter the mix of elements. Of paramount concern is the subtle flow of imagery, progressing from the
real into abstraction and a fusion of the two. She is interested in making the shift into reality both present and illusive.


Each work becomes a voyage of discovery, resulting in a continuous flow of land and water imagery, transformed by layered transparency and reordered time.



Artistic Vision
The video work continues and expands my vision of landscape. My visual language has developed over years of producing a large body of work that includes experimental film, installation, painting and photography. The elements of each have contributed to video interpretation of imagery and the flow is constant. As I now isolate video frames to develop as Digital Fusion Paintings, the circle becomes complete in its relationship to my original vision as a painter.



Presentation
The work is presented as a large-scale wall projection and/or on a wall mounted flat screen monitor. The monitor emphasizes the moving painting aspect of the work, whereas the projection incorporates the architecture of the space. I have used video projection on surfaces such as giant balloons, sculpture, and intersecting and curved walls. When installing my pieces, the site will determine the relationship of the piece to the given space resulting in a new vision for each site. As the work is not story driven, viewing can begin at any time. The videos generate a meditative
environment and can be viewed for extensive periods of time. The work lends itself to both private and public space.