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Period: 1990s
Color:  Purple
Two Umbrellas in New York Snowstorm
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow creates a shadowless scene which allows blue and red umbrellas to pop out from a subdued background. Funk captures a magic moment of perfect spacial and color harmony. ...
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Impressionist 1990s Art

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Photographic Paper

Empire State Building Magenta Architecture Manhattan Skyline, Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two New York City architectural icons juxtaposed with each other in a magenta sky. The Empire State Building and the Twin Towers shot before a Manhattan building boom gives a clear ...
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Post-Impressionist 1990s Art

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Photographic Paper

Two Figures. Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Early work was impressionistic and hard abstract. Carola later developed a more mature way of working in a colourful exploration of the subject. Colour was her main interest and she...
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Impressionist 1990s Art

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Charcoal, Oil, Gouache

1991 Gretchen Dow Simpson 'Flags' USA Serigraph HAND SIGNED
By Gretchen Dow Simpson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 37.5 x 30 inches ( 95.25 x 76.2 cm ) Image Size: 29 x 22 inches ( 73.66 x 55.88 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: 11 Color silkscreen printed by Pamplemousse Press. Hand signed, titled and numbered out of 125 by Gretchen Dow Simpson...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Screen

Beetlejuice The Animated Series Original Production Cel: Beetlejuice
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Printed Background IMAGE SIZE: 12 Field PRODUCTION: Beetlejuice The Animated Series SKU: IFA7758 ABOUT THE IMAGE: Beetlejuice: The Animated Serie...
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Pop Art 1990s Art

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Paint, Paper

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Oil Cliffside
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore Co...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Paper, Pastel

House, West Cork, Ireland, 1996
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones. With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice Gallery endeavors are superbly managed. Whether working with corporate clients, interior designers or established collectors, the Robin Rice Gallery guides patrons throughout the selection process, inspiring them to build a stylish collection or striking décor. The Robin Rice Gallery offers a bevy of styles that Robin has procured with her own signature school of artists. C Print, Blue, House, Red Door, Vignette, Blur, House, West Cork...
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Modern 1990s Art

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C Print

"Blue Dog Man" Book Advertising Poster
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a background of a blue sky and a field of flowers. The information regarding the book, i.e. name, authors and publisher is displayed at the top and bottom of the poster. There is a single blue dog up close and centered on the poster. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on paper is guaranteed authentic and is hand signed by the artist. Artist: George Rodrigue Title: "Blue Dog Man...
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Pop Art 1990s Art

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Screen

Devil Drive /// Contemporary Painting Canvas Funny Pop Street Art Car Driving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Devil Drive" *Signed and dated by May upper right Year: 1998 Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on heavy wove paper Sheet size: 28.13" x 21.6...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Paint, Acrylic, Paper

Polygon: Square (Four) /// Pop Art Robert Indiana Screenprint New York Numbers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, 1928-2018) Title: "Polygon: Square (Four)" Portfolio: The American Dream *Issued unsigned Year: 1997 Medium: Original Screenprint on Coventry paper...
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Pop Art 1990s Art

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Screen

Deneb
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deneb Color lithograph on BFK Rives, 1996 Signed and dated in pencil lower right Titled and inscribed "Ed 265" lower left Publishers chop stamp l;ower left Printed by Shark's Ink, ...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

Materials

Lithograph

No More Eggs to Fry
Located in Lawrence, NY
Mixed media collage on paper One-of-A-Kind Would look great in a kitchen or breakfast nook.
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Pop Art 1990s Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Prime Pump from ROCI USA
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A print by Robert Rauschenberg. "Prime Pump from ROCI USA" is a color screenprint on paper and Lexan print from the Wax Fire Works Series. "Prime Pump from ...
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Post-War 1990s Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Hand Signed Dated 1993 Colorful Acrylic Vasa Laminated Lucite Triangle Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Irregular triangle, 1993 Laminated acrylic Hand signed and dated: Vasa / 1993 4" H x 12" W x 3" D (size is approximate) Vasa Velizar Mihich (born 1933), known as Vasa, is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Born in Yugoslavia, Vasa has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. He is an academically trained painter and was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA in the Department of Design and Media Arts. He taught theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image. In the 1960s, Vasa developed techniques for working with cast laminated acrylic forms based on simple Euclidean shapes. These prisms of luminous construction are created by composing colored planes within these geometric forms. To fully appreciate these works of art, it is essential to observe them from different angles―the sculptures dimensionality contributes to an ever-changing appearance. Now retired as a professor emeritus, Vasa focuses on his conceptual art practice. His studio, designed to accommodate the technology required for his work, is located in the heart of Los Angeles. He makes laminated acrylic sculptures that reflect and refract light. He has had solo exhibitions at galleries in the United States, Japan, Italy and Serbia, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Vasa is best known for his sculptures made from colored pieces of the plastic, poly(methyl methacrylate), which is also known as acrylic and by the brand names Plexiglas and Lucite. Untitled from 1975, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the effect of these minimalist sculptures. His work straddles the West Coast Light and Space art movement, Artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston, Peter Alexander, and Lita Albuquerque...
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Art

Materials

Plastic, Lucite

Deneb (the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus) by renowned CA artist
Located in New York, NY
WILLIAM T. WILEY Deneb, 1996 Multi Color Lithograph on wove paper with one deckled edge 25 × 17 3/4 inches Edition of 265 Signed, dated & inscribed "Ed. 265" Published by: Print Club of Cleveland Printed by Shark's Ink, Published by Print Club of Cleveland Unframed Fantastic multi color 1996 lithograph, hand signed and numbered by the remarkable well listed California artist William T. Wiley. Some people include Wiley in the genre of California funk...
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Abstract 1990s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Pencil

A Man and His Dreams /// Contemporary Pop Art Screenprint Nudes Figurative Funny
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "A Man and His Dreams" *Signed by May in pencil lower left Year: 1991 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper Limited edit...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Screen

Up the Stairs (Blue) /// Contemporary Funny Romantic Screenprint Humour Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Up the Stairs (Blue)" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1998 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white cotton rag...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Screen

Boats on the beach oil on board painting impressionist seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Vives Maristany (XX) - Boats on the beach - Oil on panel Oil measures 23x41 cm. Frameless.
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Impressionist 1990s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

'Red Cylinder', Very Large San Francisco Bay Area Constructivist Abstract, Lego
By Dee Brown
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dee Brown' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1995. A massive American School, Constructivist abstract painting comprising geom...
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Abstract 1990s Art

Materials

Permanent Marker, Canvas, House Paint

Purple man with cityscape
Located in Lafayette, LA
This small work, entitled Purple man with cityscape depicts a man with a purple face overlooking a cityscape with a red dusk sky. the work measure 7 1/8 inches tall by 5 1/8 inches ...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Oil

Nude /// Contemporary Figurative Woman Lady Screenprint Monoprint Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Nude" *Signed by May in pencil lower left Year: 1997 Medium: Original Monoprint on unbranded white cotton rag laid paper Limited edition: (1...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

Materials

Monoprint, Paint, Acrylic

Snack on the beach spanish seascape oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Vives Maristany (XX) - Picnic on the beach - Oil on panel Oil measures 15.5x32 cm. Frameless.
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Impressionist 1990s Art

Materials

Board, Oil

Still life with teapot and pipe oil on cardboard painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Moscardó (1953) - Still life with teapot and pipe - Oil on cardboard Oil on cardboard. Oil measures 17.5x24.5 cm. Frame measures 25x32 cm. new frame. Ramón Moscardó studie...
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Fauvist 1990s Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Landscape - Lithograph by Martine Goeyens - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a very colorful print artwork realized by Martine Goyens in the late 20th Century. Hand-signed. Lithograph print, Numbered, edition of 9/99, certificate label on the r...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Lithograph

A Woman and Her Pets /// Contemporary Pop Art Screenprint Animal Dog Cat Funny
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "A Woman and Her Pets" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1991 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Screen

Dowry. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dowry. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm imprint size 13x25 cm total page size 25x33cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction public...
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Folk Art 1990s Art

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Paper, Linocut

In strangers. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In strangers. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm imprint size 13x25 cm total page size 25x33cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fictio...
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Folk Art 1990s Art

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Paper, Linocut

Mothers. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mothers. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm imprint size 13x25 cm total page size 25x33cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction pu...
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Folk Art 1990s Art

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Paper, Linocut

Longing for parents. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Longing for parents. 1994. Paper, linocut, 25x33 cm imprint size 13x25 cm total page size 25x33cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and...
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Folk Art 1990s Art

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Paper, Linocut

Sea Snow, American Modernist Abstract Canvas Collage Painting, Blue White Gray
Located in Denver, CO
Original signed abstract painting by artist Margo Hoff (1910-2008) titled 'Sea Snow'. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner, titled verso. Acrylic painting with oil stick an...
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Abstract 1990s Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Woman with Fruit /// Contemporary Pop Art Screenprint Nude Food Colorful Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Woman with Fruit" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1994 Medium: Original Screenprint o...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Screen

Burgundy Blue, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel inspired by the Josef Albers "Homage to the Square". Date: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso an...
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Art

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Screen

ACCORDIONIST WITH NIGHT FLOCK
Located in Lafayette, LA
This work depicts a central figure with a blue face. A Turquoise violin-type shape is in the foreground. The figure is flanked by two areas of multi-colored briars that are Burning. ...
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American Modern 1990s Art

Materials

Oil

Christo 'The Umbrellas - Joint Project for Japan and USA' (Blue) Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Christo (Bulgarian, 1935-2020) The Umbrellas (Joint Project for Japan and USA), 1991 (Blue) Offset lithograph on wove paper, Signed in crayon lower righ...
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Contemporary 1990s Art

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Offset

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway (1997), John Dahl’s The Last Seduction (1994) or films like Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise with all its girl-power Bonny and Clyde-type clichés. But they serve no more than as a backdrop, a type of generic tableau from which Schneider might take human and abstracted elements, for as commercial films they are not the product of mere chance and random occurrence. Notwithstanding this observation, it is also clear that the gender deconstructions that the characters in these films so often portray, namely the active role of women possessed of a free and autonomous sexuality (even victim turned vamp), frequently find resonances within the behavioural events taking place in Schneider’s photographs and DVD sequences; the same sense of sexual autonomy that Stefanie Schneider possesses and is personally committed to. In the series 29 Palms (first begun in 1999) the two women characters Radha and Max act out a scenario that is both infantile and adolescent. Wearing brightly coloured fake wigs of yellow and orange, a parody of the blonde and the redhead, they are seemingly trailer park white trash possessing a sentimental and kitsch taste in clothes totally inappropriate to the locality. The fact that Schneider makes no judgment about this is an interesting adjunct. Indeed, the photographic projection of the images is such that the girls incline themselves to believe that they are both beautiful and desirous. However, unlike the predatory role of women in say Richard Prince’s photographs, which are simply a projection of a male fantasy onto women, Radha and Max are self-contained in their vacuous if empty trailer and motel world of the swimming pool, nail polish, and childish water pistols. Within the photographic sequence Schneider includes herself, and acts as a punctum of disruption. Why is she standing in front of an Officers’ Wives Club? Why is Schneider not similarly attired? Is there a proximity to an army camp, are these would-be Lolita(s) Rahda and Max wives or American marine groupies, and where is the centre and focus of their identity? It is the ambiguity of personal involvement that is set up by Schneider which deliberately makes problematic any clear sense of narrative construction. The strangely virulent colours of the bleached-out girls stand in marked contrast to Schneider’s own anodyne sense of self-image. Is she identifying with the contents or directing the scenario? With this series, perhaps, more than any other, Schneider creates a feeling of a world that has some degree of symbolic order. For example the girls stand or squat by a dirt road, posing the question as to their sexual and personal status. Following the 29 Palms series, Schneider will trust herself increasingly by diminishing the sense of a staged environment. The events to come will tell you both everything and nothing, reveal and obfuscate, point towards and simultaneously away from any clearly definable meaning. If for example we compare 29 Palms to say Hitchhiker (2005), and where the sexual contents are made overtly explicit, we do not find the same sense of simulated identity. It is the itinerant coming together of two characters Daisy and Austen, who meet on the road and subsequently share a trailer together. Presented in a sequential DVD and still format, we become party to a would-be relationship of sorts. No information is given as to the background or social origins, or even any reasons as to why these two women should be attracted to each other. Is it acted out? Are they real life experiences? They are women who are sexually free in expressing themselves. But while the initial engagement with the subject is orchestrated by Schneider, and the edited outcome determined by the artist, beyond that we have little information with which to construct a story. The events are commonplace, edgy and uncertain, but the viewer is left to decide as to what they might mean as a narrative. The disaggregated emotions of the work are made evident, the game or role playing, the transitory fantasies palpable, and yet at the same time everything is insubstantial and might fall apart at any moment. The characters relate but they do not present a relationship in any meaningful sense. Or, if they do, it is one driven the coincidental juxtaposition of random emotions. Should there be an intended syntax it is one that has been stripped of the power to grammatically structure what is being experienced. And, this seems to be the central point of the work, the emptying out not only of a particular American way of life, but the suggestion that the grounds upon which it was once predicated are no longer possible. The photo-novel Hitchhiker is porous and the culture of the seventies which it might be said to homage is no longer sustainable. Not without coincidence, perhaps, the decade that was the last ubiquitous age of Polaroid film. In the numerous photographic series, some twenty or so, that occur between 29 Palms and Hitchhiker, Schneider has immersed herself and scrutinised many aspects of suburban, peripheral, and scrubland America. Her characters, including herself, are never at the centre of cultural affairs. Such eccentricities as they might possess are all derived from what could be called their adjacent status to the dominant culture of America. In fact her works are often sated with references to the sentimental sub-strata that underpin so much of American daily life. It is the same whether it is flower gardens and household accoutrements of her photo-series Suburbia (2004), or the transitional and environmental conditions depicted in The Last Picture Show (2005). The artist’s use of sentimental song titles, often adapted to accompany individual images within a series by Schneider, show her awareness of America’s close relationship between popular film and music. For example the song ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’, becomes Leaving in a Jet Plane as part of The Last Picture Show series, while the literalism of the plane in the sky is shown in one element of this diptych, but juxtaposed to a blonde-wigged figure first seen in 29 Palms. This indicates that every potential narrative element is open to continual reallocation in what amounts to a story without end. And, the interchangeable nature of the images, like a dream, is the state of both a pictorial and affective flux that is the underlying theme pervading Schneider’s photo-narratives. For dream is a site of yearning or longing, either to be with or without, a human pursuit of a restless but uncertain alternative to our daily reality. The scenarios that Schneider sets up nonetheless have to be initiated by the artist. And, this might be best understood by looking at her three recent DVD sequenced photo-novels, Reneé’s Dream and Sidewinder (2005). We have already considered the other called Hitchhiker. In the case of Sidewinder the scenario was created by internet where she met J.D. Rudometkin, an ex-theologian, who agreed to her idea to live with her for five weeks in the scrubland dessert environment of Southern California. The dynamics and unfolding of their relationship, both sexually and emotionally, became the primary subject matter of this series of photographs. The relative isolation and their close proximity, the interactive tensions, conflicts and submissions, are thus recorded to reveal the day-to-day evolution of their relationship. That a time limit was set on this relation-based experiment was not the least important aspect of the project. The text and music accompanying the DVD were written by the American Rudometkin, who speaks poetically of “Torn Stevie. Scars from the weapon to her toes an accidental act of God her father said. On Vaness at California.” The mix of hip reverie and fantasy-based language of his text, echoes the chaotic unfolding of their daily life in this period, and is evident in the almost sun-bleached Polaroid images like Whisky Dance, where the two abandon themselves to the frenetic circumstances of the moment. Thus Sidewinder, a euphemism for both a missile and a rattlesnake, hints at the libidinal and emotional dangers that were risked by Schneider and Rudometkin. Perhaps, more than any other of her photo-novels it was the most spontaneous and immediate, since Schneider’s direct participation mitigated against and narrowed down the space between her life and the art work. The explicit and open character of their relationship at this time (though they have remained friends), opens up the question as the biographical role Schneider plays in all her work. She both makes and directs the work while simultaneously dwelling within the artistic processes as they unfold. Hence she is both author and character, conceiving the frame within which things will take place, and yet subject to the same unpredictable outcomes that emerge in the process. In Reneé’s Dream, issues of role reversal take place as the cowgirl on her horse undermines the male stereotype of Richard Prince’s ‘Marlboro Country’. This photo-work along with several others by Schneider, continue to undermine the focus of the male gaze, for her women are increasingly autonomous and subversive. They challenge the male role of sexual predator, often taking the lead and undermining masculine role play, trading on male fears that their desires can be so easily attained. That she does this by working through archetypal male conventions of American culture, is not the least of the accomplishments in her work. What we are confronted with frequently is of an idyll turned sour, the filmic clichés that Hollywood and American television dramas have promoted for fifty years. The citing of this in the Romantic West, where so many of the male clichés were generated, only adds to the diminishing sense of substance once attributed to these iconic American fabrications. And, that she is able to do this through photographic images rather than film, undercuts the dominance espoused by time-based film. Film feigns to be seamless though we know it is not. Film operates with a story board and setting in which scenes are elaborately arranged and pre-planned. Schneider has thus been able to generate a genre of fragmentary events, the assemblage of a story without a storyboard. But these post-narratological stories require another component, and that component is the viewer who must bring their own interpretation as to what is taking place. If this can be considered the upside of her work, the downside is that she never positions herself by giving a personal opinion as to the events that are taking place in her photographs. But, perhaps, this is nothing more than her use of the operation of chance dictates. I began this essay by speaking about the apparitional contents of Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives, and meant at that time the literal and chance-directed ‘appearing’ qualities of her photographs. Perhaps, at this moment we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre-like quality also, a ghostly uncertainty about many of the human experiences found in her subject matter. Is it that the subculture of the American Dream, or the way of life Schneider has chosen to record, has in turn become also the phantom of it former self? Are these empty and fragmented scenarios a mirror of what has become of contemporary America? There is certainly some affection for their contents on the part of the artist, but it is somehow tainted with pessimism and the impossibility of sustainable human relations, with the dissolute and commercial distractions of America today. Whether this is the way it is, or, at least, the way it is perceived by Schneider is hard to assess. There is a bleak lassitude about so many of her characters. But then again the artist has so inured herself into this context over a long protracted period that the boundaries between the events and happenings photographed, and the personal life of Stefanie Schneider, have become similarly opaque. Is it the diagnosis of a condition, or just a recording of a phenomenon? Only the viewer can decide this question. For the status of Schneider’s certain sense of uncertainty is, perhaps, the only truth we may ever know.

1 Kerry Brougher (ed.), Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, ex. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 1996) 2 Im Reich der Phantome: Fotographie des Unsichtbaren, ex. cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach/Kunsthalle Krems/FotomuseumWinterthur, (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997) 3 Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish – Sigmar Polke, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995) 4 Slavoj Žižek, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Occasional Papers, no. 1, 2000. 5 Diane Arbus, eds. Doon Arbus, and Marvin Israel...
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