Go See – Southampton, New York: Lola Schnabel at Tripoli Gallery through September 8th, 2011
August 30th, 2011
Lola Montes Schnabel, Lola (2011). All images via Tripoli Gallery
Lola Schnabel is showcasing her iodine drawings from August 18th to September 8th at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton, NY. The 29-year-old daughter of artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel depicts both familiar and unfamiliar faces by applying iodine to white shellac-inked sketches.
more images and story after the jump…
Lola Montes Schnabel, Julian (2011)
Lola Schnabel is a lifelong New Yorker, having graduated from Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn prior to studying at Cooper Union. She is a close friend to fashion designer Zac Posen, her former classmate at Saint Ann’s. In 2009, she celebrated her 28th birthday with a summer show, “Gypsy Jamboree” at Melet Mercantile, a vintage store in Montauk, New York, where her family has a home. The exhibition featured a short film by the artist, that juxtaposed shots of kissing with brown sonograms. The sonograms were intended to represent innocence, with the kissing as a formative exercise of awakening and maturity.
Lola Montes Schnabel, Loren Kramar (2011)
Not only is the use of sonograms indicative of the developed iodine color in Lola Schnabel’s latest showcase, but it also evokes her father’s work with X-rays. In 2008, Julian Schnabel showed his X-ray-based artwork at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. He had found the slides in an abandoned home on the Normandy coast in France, near the set of his recently completed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon). The film chronicles the life of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a magazine editor whose paralysis alters and distorts his perceptions in day-to-day life. Both the X-ray images and the film itself emphasize the aesthetically and metaphorically ephemeral, with muted colors and a sense of the ethereal in day-to-day challenges.
Lola Montes Schnabel, Cedric 2 (2011)
A sense of distortion is present in Lola Schnabel’s iodine paintings, which only materialize after a chemical reaction. Prior to pouring iodine, the white sketches are merely rough likenesses. Only with the secondary process can the temperament and evolution of the portrait literally unfold.
Lola Montes Schnabel, Damaria (2011)
The artistic intimacy in Lola Schnabel’s work is intensely personal. The subjects of the paintings are close family and friends of the artist’s, including her best friend Loren Kramar and her father. Prior to this exhibition, Schnabel had collaborated with Zac Posen, musician Lou Reed, and artist Steve Nash.
-A. Bregman
Related Links
Lola Schnabel [Tripoli Gallery]
Mix Master Lola Schnabel [T Magazine]
Zac Posen [Notable Biographies]
Lola Schnabel at the Tripoli Gallery [Hamptons.com]
Julian Schnabel Exhibition Page [Gagosian Gallery]
Lola Schnabel’s Violet Temper [Interview Magazine]
August 30th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
These paintings look dreadful, like they came straight out of an undergraduate’s studio, right next to the painter’s well-worn copy of Oscar Wilde’s complete plays. The artist is Julian Schnabel’s daughter and that’s the only reason why she’s being written about. What a waste of time and space!
August 31st, 2011 at 10:31 am
these are horrible paintings, there’s nothing going for them..
December 19th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Nice painting for a young painter, it must be quite a challenge being the daughter of such a father and an easy target despite the perks, but judging the work on its own merit- I like this painting and what it champions. We don’t get to choose our parents and who wouldn’t accept any attention given them. Lighten up.