exhibition: “Within the Shadows” at Catherine Couturier Gallery
Opening reception with the artist:
Saturday, September 6, 5-7 pm
On view September 6 – October 11
Catherine Couturier Gallery
2635 Colquitt Street, Houston, TX
Light emerges as a guide in this work. It is a subtle shimmer sought within the shadows—a fragile constant that, even as vision softens and the world shifts, offers a presence that reveals, distorts, and sometimes consoles. “Within the Shadows” is an exploration of the enduring power of luminescence — its profound capacity to offer respite through these essential values, both tonal and emotional, in a world yearning for illumination.
“Schneider shoots with the ghosts of Brigman, Steichen, Stieglitz, and other members of the Photo Secession standing by her side, lending her work a timeless, beguiling air of memory. For Schneider, time itself is her demeanor . . . Building a bridge into this digital age, Schneider unabashedly flaunts her camera vision, informing it with a printmaker’s devices and a painter’s disregard for rules.” –– Rick Wester