Stefanie Schneider Art
German, b. 1968
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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Artist: Stefanie Schneider
The Blue Pill to forget - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Blue Pill to forget (Burned) - Self Portrait
1999, Edition of 2/10, 40x40cm
Print on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, No OBAs, Bright White, Acid Free
based on...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
The Diva (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Vintage, analog, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Diva (Beachshoot) - 2005
50x50cm, Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 1461.
Not mounted.
Beachshoot
St...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tropics Motor Motel I (Memories of Green)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tropics Motor Motel I (Memories of Green) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition 1/10,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Artist inven...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cups II (Suburbia) Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Color, Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cups II (Suburbia) - 2004
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Signed on verso with Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 2912.
Not mounted.
This pr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
So Still (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, expired, Nude, women, Love, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
So Still (Sidewinder) - 2005
20x22cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) diptych - 1999
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
50x48cm each, 50x102cm together with gap.
2 Archival C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids....
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Metal
Springtime (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Springtime (Suburbia) - 2004
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Signed on verso with Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 18251.
Not mounted.
Thi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - 5/5, 4 pieces
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - 2005
Edition 5/5,
125x123cm each. 125x520cm installed.
4 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Cristal ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Gasstation at Night (Stranger than Paradise) - 4 pieces, analog, mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gas station at Night I (Stranger than Paradise) - 2006
Edition 1/5,
48x46 each, 93x91cm installed with gaps.
4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 Polaroid...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Metal
The Kiss (Sidewinder) - mounted, analog - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color, photo
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Kiss (Sidewinder) - 2005
125x154cm,
Edition 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on the original Polaroid. Signed on verso.
Artist Inventory No. 3120.02.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
This piece ships in a crate.
Schneider harnesses the unpredictable chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film, where bursts of color erupt across the surface, destabilizing the photograph's traditional allegiance to reality. These vivid distortions draw her characters into ethereal, trance-like dreamscapes. Like fleeting sequences from a vintage road movie, Schneider’s images shimmer with a transitory quality, dissolving before any definitive conclusions can be drawn. Their ephemeral essence is conveyed through subtle gestures and enigmatic motives. Refusing to yield to the constraints of reality, Schneider’s work keeps alive a delicate interplay of dream, desire, fact, and fiction, blurring the boundaries between them with poetic ambiguity.
Stefanie Schneider’s work echoes the heart of American art, channeling the cinematic nostalgia of Ed Ruscha’s roadscapes, the stark sensuality of Georgia O’Keeffe’s deserts, and the haunting solitude of Edward Hopper...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Metal
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023
50x49cm.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Daisy in front of Mirror - Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph, Nude
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Mirror (Till Death do Us part) - 2005
Edition 1/5,
48x46cm,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Beachshoot) - with Radha Mitchell, analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005
128x125cm,
Edition 4/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-Printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certifi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Renée's Dream - Jules and Jim II - 29 Palms, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Jules and Jim II (Renée's Dream) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2007
125x123cm,
Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certific...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Primary Colors - Contemporary, Icons, Polaroid, Photograph, expired
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Primary Colors' (Stranger than Paradise) - 2001
each 20x20cm plus 5 cm in between each print together,
70x70cm,
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2,
Archival C-Print print,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dusk (The Last Picture Show) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dusk (The Last Picture Show) - 2005
Edition 4/5,
38x36cm each, 131x127cm installed including gaps.
9 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Crystal Paper, based...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Metal
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Waiting' (Sidewinder) - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Mini 'Waiting' (Sidewinder) - 2005 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the Polaroid.
Polaroid sized ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Buried - 8 pieces - Contemporary, Figurative, expired, Polaroid, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Buried (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
38x36cm each, 90x175cm installed.
8 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive P...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stevie in Bathtub (29 Palms, CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stevie in Bathub (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive, based on the Polar...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Henry Illuminated (Stay), triptych - featuring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Reality (The Princess and her Lover)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Reality (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, expired, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 2006
38x36cm,
Edition 2/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature Label.
Artist inventory Number 3602.
Not mounted....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 483...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
White Tank (My own Private Travel Diary) - analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Tank, Joshua Tree (My own Private Travel Diary) - 1999,
43x59cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Cer...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fly me to the Moon (Till Death do us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fly me to the Moon (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Waiting (Sidewinder) - Contemporary, Nude, Figurative, Polaroid, expired
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting (Sidewinder) - 2005
98x97cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cabazon Dinosaurs (Drive to the Desert)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cabazon Dinosaurs (Drive to the Desert) - 2000
44x59cm,
Edition 5/5.
Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #155.05.
Not mount...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fair Weather (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fair Weather (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005,
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label
Artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bells Ringing (Sidewinder) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bells Ringing (Sidewinder), 2005 -
Edition 2/5,
104x424cm (installed), each piece 48x46cm,
16 analog C-Prints, based on 16 expired Polaroids,
hand-printed by the artist on Fuji ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Narween (Saigon) -20x20cm, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, AP1/2
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Narween (Saigon) - 2003
sold out Edition of 5, this is Artist Proof 1/2,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist inventory Number 469.15.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
On the Way to Big Sur (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On the Way to Big Sur (The Last Picture Show) - 2000
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 969. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Outtake (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outtake (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory Nu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mindscreen 10 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mindscreen 10 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
artist Inventory No. 244.04.
Not m...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Airstream (29 Palms, CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Airstream (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
48x47cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 280.
Not mounted.
A Germ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Outback Dreams (29 Palms CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outback Dreams - 29 Palms, CA - 2010
50x130cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the 3 original Polaroids.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory # 1933.
Not mounted.
THE G...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer - including the monograph 'Instantdreams'
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's signed monograph "Instantdreams".
64 pages, hardcover, published by Avenso, 2014. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Waiting for Randy (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting for Randy (Wastelands) - 2003
38x37cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 1166.
Signature lab...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Henry watching Athena Dance I - Stay, diptych - AP 1/2, 128x125cm and 38x37cm
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry watching Athena Dance (128x126cm) & Sam, Interior Hospital (37x36cm) (Stay), diptych, 2006,
Artist Proof 1/2, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory Lane (Haley and the Birds) - 29 Palms, CA - based on a Polaroid Original
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory Lane (Haley and the Birds) - 29 Palms, CA - 2013
78x76cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Male Nude in Motel (Desert Nudes) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Men
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude in Motel (Desert Nudes) - 1999 -
40x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inve...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Decision (The Getaway) - The Last Picture Show - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Decision - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #762.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider's photographs evoke scintillating moments suspended between daydreams and waking reality. Each scene, captured in the southwestern United States, radiates a surreal enchantment. The artist's role appears minimal yet pivotal, providing the decisive impulse that sets the imagery into motion. The figures in her photographs remain as elusive as the motivations behind their actions, and the narratives woven through her sequences are tantalizingly open to interpretation.
Atmospheric disturbances in Schneider's work emerge as the result of a deliberate narrative arrangement, compelling viewers to navigate between visual mementos and the gaps in memory they conjure. Yet, her artistry is no less purposeful in its engagement with medium. Despite the inherent unpredictability of expired Polaroid film, Schneider wields it with calculated intent. The photo-chemical self-developing process, altered by age and decay, transforms the initial exposure into something alien yet mesmerizing. This dysfunction is a cornerstone of MIND SCREEN, a multi-part work that explores the fragility of reality, authenticity, and comprehension.
Schneider juxtaposes this brittleness with a magical realism steeped in chimeras, crafting dreamlike sequences that resist definitive narratives. She entrusts viewers with the responsibility of piecing together presumed storylines, refusing to offer a manual for interpretation. Instead, her work draws us into a realm where the unreal reigns—shimmering scenes that evoke the mirage of a road movie, a moment of violence, or a tragic self-sacrifice.
Film genres are invoked and subverted in a single breath: Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders is reimagined through a rose-tinted lens, Thelma...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mountains (Strange Love)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mountains (Strange Love) - 2003
40x60cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a 35mm film.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
A piece of Ste...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
So Still (Sidewinder) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Nude
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
So Still (Sidewinder), 2005
Edition 2/5,
128x130cm,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Metal
Palm Springs Palm Trees X (Californication)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees X (Californication) - 2019
20x20cm, ,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature labe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Whisky Dance I (Sidewinder) 8 pieces, analog, 82x80cm each
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Whisky Dance (Sidewinder) - 2005 -
Edition 2/5,
8 pieces installed including gaps 172x338cm, 82x80cm.
8 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, ...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Metal
Springtime (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Springtime (Suburbia) - 2004
50x60cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Signed on verso with Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 18251.
Not mounted.
Thi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signatu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Almost Paradise (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Almost Paradise (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 894.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Reality with the Tequila:
Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland
by James Scarborough
“How much more than enough
for you for I for both of us darling?”
(E. E. Cummings)
Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence.
Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dustbowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined.
Until she met him, she had not been inclined.
It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon.
They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning to look up.
That’s when the shooting started…
Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila.
Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowledges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty.
She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other-worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy.
That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
1 Stefanie Schneider Mini 'Male Nude' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
1 Stefanie Schneider Mini 'Male Nude' - 1999 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2016
10.7 x 8.8cm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Snow (Strange Love)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Snow (Strange Love) - 2003
50x75.5cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a 35mm film.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
A piece of Stefan...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
So Still (Sidewinder) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
So Still (Sidewinder) - 2005
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x20cm,
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Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Green Chair - 29 Palms, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Green Chair (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition of 10,
58x56cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper
not mounted,
based on the Polaroid
Art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, Landscape Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels), 2005
50x39cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
artist Inventory No. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boccia (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia (Beachshoot) - 2005
70x135cm installed, including gaps - 8 pieces, 30x30cm each,
almost sold out Edition of 100 plus 3 Artist Proofs.
Available 100/100, AP 1/3, AP 3/3.
Arc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sisyphus (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sisyphus (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
98x97cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label
Arti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels)- 2005
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs - 100x60cm.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Conception (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Conception (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
40x40cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #9157.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider's photographs evoke scintillating moments suspended between daydreams and waking reality. Each scene, captured in the southwestern United States, radiates a surreal enchantment. The artist's role appears minimal yet pivotal, providing the decisive impulse that sets the imagery into motion. The figures in her photographs remain as elusive as the motivations behind their actions, and the narratives woven through her sequences are tantalizingly open to interpretation.
Atmospheric disturbances in Schneider's work emerge as the result of a deliberate narrative arrangement, compelling viewers to navigate between visual mementos and the gaps in memory they conjure. Yet, her artistry is no less purposeful in its engagement with medium. Despite the inherent unpredictability of expired Polaroid film, Schneider wields it with calculated intent. The photo-chemical self-developing process, altered by age and decay, transforms the initial exposure into something alien yet mesmerizing. This dysfunction is a cornerstone of MIND SCREEN, a multi-part work that explores the fragility of reality, authenticity, and comprehension.
Schneider juxtaposes this brittleness with a magical realism steeped in chimeras, crafting dreamlike sequences that resist definitive narratives. She entrusts viewers with the responsibility of piecing together presumed storylines, refusing to offer a manual for interpretation. Instead, her work draws us into a realm where the unreal reigns—shimmering scenes that evoke the mirage of a road movie, a moment of violence, or a tragic self-sacrifice.
Film genres are invoked and subverted in a single breath: Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders is reimagined through a rose-tinted lens, Thelma...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Primary Colors - Contemporary, Abstract, Landscape, USA, Polaroid, Flag
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Primary Colors (Stranger than Paradise) - 2001
Edition 1/5,
9 pieces, each 48x47cm, installed 159x156cm including
5 cm gap in between each piece.
9 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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