"BARE BONES"

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BARE BONES is sculpture stripped to its essence with simple lines and minimal shapes that insinuate monumentality. The raw material is fallen trees and unearthed root systems. "You could swear that the artist just got lucky, says art writer Linda Yablonsky in an essay in the exhibition catalogue, "and found pieces of timber that had bent and twisted into emotive shapes on their own. Schneider chainsaws and chisels each new find…She scrapes, gouges, or cuts each surface and then applies paint, sometimes with a toothbrush, adding further embellishments in tiny pictographs of chalk, crayon, pencil, and marker ink. Yet it all looks perfectly natural."

Jane Schneider, December 2003

Photography by Lynton Gardiner