December 22, 2011
The opening at the Robert Madsen Gallery on the 10th has come and gone...what a great evening! I'm very proud of the show and it will remain up until January 6th, 2012.
To further add to it, I got a really great email from Andrew Page a couple of days afterward asking if I'd like to participate in the always interesting "3 Questions" segment of the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet. Of course, I was happy to oblige...
Take a look at what was discussed at http://blog.glassquarterly.com!
To further add to it, I got a really great email from Andrew Page a couple of days afterward asking if I'd like to participate in the always interesting "3 Questions" segment of the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet. Of course, I was happy to oblige...
Take a look at what was discussed at http://blog.glassquarterly.com!
October 11, 2011
Today I received confirmation...my first exhibition as a Pacific Northwesterner! On Saturday, December 10 from 6 - 9 p.m., I will have a solo exhibition at the Robert Madsen Gallery in Seattle's Ballard district. It will feature new work comprised of found and altered materials that contemporarily reinterprets the practice of rendering one's likeness through painted portraiture.
August 30, 2011
As promised earlier, I've added a new link to this website that leads you to my brand new Tumblr spot, "David Schnuckel Uses His Words." You can access this page through my "Links" page or by clicking on http://davidschnuckel.tumblr.c.
I have a lot of polishing to do on some of the essays I've written that I want to post, but for now there's a brief introduction explaining my intentions with "David Schnuckel Uses His Words."
I have a lot of polishing to do on some of the essays I've written that I want to post, but for now there's a brief introduction explaining my intentions with "David Schnuckel Uses His Words."
August 25, 2011
Earlier this summer I had donated a piece called "The Eye Can't See What Smells Like Trouble" to the 33rd Annual Pilchuck Glass School Auction held later on this autumn. It's my first time donating to the event and I was initially thinking that it would be a great way to become more familiar as an artist unto my new friends and colleagues in the Seattle area. Yesterday, I was given word that the piece was selected by the jury to appear in the Live section of the auction and that it had also been selected by Nordstrom to be displayed in the downtown Seattle Nordstrom window from September 10 until October 10 as a "sneak peek" sort of exhibition of highlighted items in the auction.
The piece is featured on this website in the "Illustrated Collectible Stemware" folder of my portfolio, but can also be viewed in the auction catalog posted at http://pilchuck.com/events/auc as photographed by Pilchuck.
Looking forward to the event and very proud to be a part of it!
The piece is featured on this website in the "Illustrated Collectible Stemware" folder of my portfolio, but can also be viewed in the auction catalog posted at http://pilchuck.com/events/auc as photographed by Pilchuck.
Looking forward to the event and very proud to be a part of it!
August 6, 2011
It's official! I have finally submitted the final draft of my essay to be published in the 2010 GAS Conference Journal...only 4 weeks and a few odd days late! Although a very difficult thing to compose within the required word count maximum, I'm quite proud of being able to say as much as I could within the space provided. However, I will submit an uncut version of my GAS Journal essay online relatively soon once I activate a Tumblr account. This blog spot will feature not only writings about my own work, but other pieces I've written in the past in regards to the work of others or informal exhibition reviews. If this website is a venue where I showcase what I do as a maker, then consider this future blog spot to be a space hosting my accomplishments/efforts as a writer. The address will be added to my "Links" page relatively soon...
However, for those of you who are GAS members, you can also enjoy the published version of the essay along with images upon receiving the Journal next Spring.
However, for those of you who are GAS members, you can also enjoy the published version of the essay along with images upon receiving the Journal next Spring.
July 15, 2011
I have been notified a couple months ago that I had been nominated as a candidate for the 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. American artists and craftspeople are recognized every two years by a series of monetary grants. It is the intention of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation to support artists whose work shows promise, but who have not yet received widespread critical acclaim or commercial recognition; enabling foremost the opportunity to produce new work and continue their development. Award winners are selected from nominees proposed by the Foundation's trustees, artists, critics, and museum professionals throughout the United States.
As a nominee I had just proudly submitted various materials (as of two minutes ago) which will be reviewed by a jury consisting of a committee of Foundation trustees, as well as a changing roster of artists, critics, and museum professionals later on in the year. According to the website, winners are selected for their talent, promise, and individual artistic strength...
...however, I'm simply honored to have been nominated.
As a nominee I had just proudly submitted various materials (as of two minutes ago) which will be reviewed by a jury consisting of a committee of Foundation trustees, as well as a changing roster of artists, critics, and museum professionals later on in the year. According to the website, winners are selected for their talent, promise, and individual artistic strength...
...however, I'm simply honored to have been nominated.
June 4, 2011
Yesterday I had delivered my lecture at the 41st Annual GAS Conference in Seattle. This next sentence is an incredible understatement, but the lecture went well...in fact, the whole day was unmistakably remarkable! It's not that I was expecting it to be foul, but that I had no idea how invigorating that particular Friday was going to prove to be.
Carrying the buzz of the whole experience back to Pilchuck last night, I wrote a dear friend an ecstatic email to report how the lecture went...I'll post it below. It fills in some of the personal highlights of the day and why I had a particularly wonderful time. I think the thing that really made it over the top for me was beginning to feel the oncoming of a connectedness to the Pacific Northwest community ...especially in considering my efforts to transition into a new place that has a particularly knock-out cast of artists/individuals involved in its glass scene. I not only am beginning to feel at home here, but becoming aware of the probability of fitting in...or rather, feeling like I might "belong" in general. I'm still thriving on the mystery of my future out here and perhaps yesterday was a day of recognizing the potential of good things happening at some point soon. Anyway, again, a fragment of that email:
"In regards to the GAS Conference, I have a lot to report...
The lecture went well...I dressed to kill, I felt good at the podium
and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was well received by
others. No glitches, no tech problems, everything was set up and ready
to go when I got in. I was even early enough to run through a little
bit of the presentation to get warmed up, in fact. Not a whole lot of
people were in attendance at first, but I didn't mind. It was a huge
venue so the small amount of people in audience looked incredibly
comedic. Maybe 200 seats for maybe 12 people! I started the lecture
by breaking the ice in stating a concern that I didn't think we had
enough chairs...the lights went down and I did my thing. It was
incredibly dark...which was great in that I couldn't see anybody
beyond the first two rows. After 45 minutes I finished and when the
house lights came back on I was surprised to see the place quite
full...lots of folks came in shortly after it started. A really great
feeling. As it turned out, I was able to speak to a room full of friends, colleagues, students, mentors, and heroes within the field. I took a couple questions, said a few more closing remarksand bid everyone a good day. At the end I was approached by certain people at the front while the others vacated to have a quick word...approached by personally admired folks who I haven't had a whole lot of interaction with like Jack Wax and Jeffrey Sarmiento who were very kind and supportive.
After that I walked about downtown to see some of the shows that
opened the night before...with high priority on the Superposition
exhibition and Robin's [Cass] exhibition. They were both really great...and I spent some time with Tina [Oldknow] while at the Superposition show. I bought a catalog from that show and would love to have you take a look at it when we are able to get together again in September. Of course it was also great to spend time with Alex [Rosenberg], Helen [Lee], and Matt [Szosz], too...
I ran into a lot of folks and made a special effort to introduce
myself to others. I went to hear RIchard Meitner speak and was happy
to see that Robert Wiley was there, too. I was pleased that it didn't
take long for Wiley to remember when we had first made each other's
acquaintance out at Blenko while he was a graduate at OSU...a long
weekend of sand-casting for Hank Adams. Richard was making his way
out without haste - dying for a cigarette I believe he was saying -
and I made sure to stop him. He had a bothered-yet-trying-to-be-pleasant sort of look about him in my doing so. I just said what my name was and his expression totally transformed into something ecstatic. He dropped his stuff and gave me a big hug...it was really heartwarming. We had a very short conversation and then split ways...it was great.
Went to the Emerging Artist Lecture and was pleased to do some more
elbow rubbing there...I knew the three speakers quite well...which
might mean something. I haven't determined what quite yet, but know
that it indicates something about my involvement in the field. It was
Hiromi Takizawa (I worked with at Pilchuck), Rachel Wong (a 2nd year
grad at Alfred during my first year teaching), and Edison
Osorio-Zapata (I worked with at Pilchuck several times, Wheaton
Village). After that I went to dinner with Ruth [King] and Clair Belfrage for some Kirin and sushi and then Ruth took me back to Pilchuck. Phew...
A really great day...lots of stuff I haven't wrote about here, but
just came home last night glowing. Once in a blue moon the planets
align and I have a consistently wonderful day. In fact, I don't mind
not having one again for another couple of years or so in return for
yesterday's experience. Also realizing a lot in terms of where I'm at
professionally and what that now means beyond just the making. Also
realizing a lot in terms of the role my generation is now playing in
the field...how we're eventually going to be the folks in the driver's
seat, so to speak. These are the things I'll be considering
occasionally this summer when not neck-deep in my duties as "Baby
Ruth" (that's the Staff nickname for my position I've come to learn)..."
Carrying the buzz of the whole experience back to Pilchuck last night, I wrote a dear friend an ecstatic email to report how the lecture went...I'll post it below. It fills in some of the personal highlights of the day and why I had a particularly wonderful time. I think the thing that really made it over the top for me was beginning to feel the oncoming of a connectedness to the Pacific Northwest community ...especially in considering my efforts to transition into a new place that has a particularly knock-out cast of artists/individuals involved in its glass scene. I not only am beginning to feel at home here, but becoming aware of the probability of fitting in...or rather, feeling like I might "belong" in general. I'm still thriving on the mystery of my future out here and perhaps yesterday was a day of recognizing the potential of good things happening at some point soon. Anyway, again, a fragment of that email:
"In regards to the GAS Conference, I have a lot to report...
The lecture went well...I dressed to kill, I felt good at the podium
and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was well received by
others. No glitches, no tech problems, everything was set up and ready
to go when I got in. I was even early enough to run through a little
bit of the presentation to get warmed up, in fact. Not a whole lot of
people were in attendance at first, but I didn't mind. It was a huge
venue so the small amount of people in audience looked incredibly
comedic. Maybe 200 seats for maybe 12 people! I started the lecture
by breaking the ice in stating a concern that I didn't think we had
enough chairs...the lights went down and I did my thing. It was
incredibly dark...which was great in that I couldn't see anybody
beyond the first two rows. After 45 minutes I finished and when the
house lights came back on I was surprised to see the place quite
full...lots of folks came in shortly after it started. A really great
feeling. As it turned out, I was able to speak to a room full of friends, colleagues, students, mentors, and heroes within the field. I took a couple questions, said a few more closing remarksand bid everyone a good day. At the end I was approached by certain people at the front while the others vacated to have a quick word...approached by personally admired folks who I haven't had a whole lot of interaction with like Jack Wax and Jeffrey Sarmiento who were very kind and supportive.
After that I walked about downtown to see some of the shows that
opened the night before...with high priority on the Superposition
exhibition and Robin's [Cass] exhibition. They were both really great...and I spent some time with Tina [Oldknow] while at the Superposition show. I bought a catalog from that show and would love to have you take a look at it when we are able to get together again in September. Of course it was also great to spend time with Alex [Rosenberg], Helen [Lee], and Matt [Szosz], too...
I ran into a lot of folks and made a special effort to introduce
myself to others. I went to hear RIchard Meitner speak and was happy
to see that Robert Wiley was there, too. I was pleased that it didn't
take long for Wiley to remember when we had first made each other's
acquaintance out at Blenko while he was a graduate at OSU...a long
weekend of sand-casting for Hank Adams. Richard was making his way
out without haste - dying for a cigarette I believe he was saying -
and I made sure to stop him. He had a bothered-yet-trying-to-be-pleasant sort of look about him in my doing so. I just said what my name was and his expression totally transformed into something ecstatic. He dropped his stuff and gave me a big hug...it was really heartwarming. We had a very short conversation and then split ways...it was great.
Went to the Emerging Artist Lecture and was pleased to do some more
elbow rubbing there...I knew the three speakers quite well...which
might mean something. I haven't determined what quite yet, but know
that it indicates something about my involvement in the field. It was
Hiromi Takizawa (I worked with at Pilchuck), Rachel Wong (a 2nd year
grad at Alfred during my first year teaching), and Edison
Osorio-Zapata (I worked with at Pilchuck several times, Wheaton
Village). After that I went to dinner with Ruth [King] and Clair Belfrage for some Kirin and sushi and then Ruth took me back to Pilchuck. Phew...
A really great day...lots of stuff I haven't wrote about here, but
just came home last night glowing. Once in a blue moon the planets
align and I have a consistently wonderful day. In fact, I don't mind
not having one again for another couple of years or so in return for
yesterday's experience. Also realizing a lot in terms of where I'm at
professionally and what that now means beyond just the making. Also
realizing a lot in terms of the role my generation is now playing in
the field...how we're eventually going to be the folks in the driver's
seat, so to speak. These are the things I'll be considering
occasionally this summer when not neck-deep in my duties as "Baby
Ruth" (that's the Staff nickname for my position I've come to learn)..."
May 20, 2011
Currently I sit in a terminal at the Rochester International Airport waiting to board a flight towards the Pacific Northwest. Over the past several weeks I've been packing up my apartment, the office at RIT, closing out a couple storage spaces, and the studio...shipping out everything that I absolutely couldn't let go of on 4 pallets by freight out to the Seattle area. In addition, also using the last several weeks to simultaneously wrap up an incredibly full and involved year as Visiting Assistant Professor at RIT. However, all that had to be done was done and I thankfully can't see any loose ends!
Today serves as a transitional day in leaving upstate New York and all of the wonderful opportunities I've had in it over the past 5 years and starting a new (and hopefully as fruitful) run in Washington state. In a couple of days I'll plug into the Pilchuck Glass School as a TA for Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend for Session 1 and then remain on campus to serve as the school's Program Assistant for the remainder of the summer. It is a pleasure to be able to assist in the effort of providing all of its inhabitants a good experience for the season and an honor to contribute towards Pilchuck's commendable reputation and legacy. In short, I'm stoked...
Today serves as a transitional day in leaving upstate New York and all of the wonderful opportunities I've had in it over the past 5 years and starting a new (and hopefully as fruitful) run in Washington state. In a couple of days I'll plug into the Pilchuck Glass School as a TA for Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend for Session 1 and then remain on campus to serve as the school's Program Assistant for the remainder of the summer. It is a pleasure to be able to assist in the effort of providing all of its inhabitants a good experience for the season and an honor to contribute towards Pilchuck's commendable reputation and legacy. In short, I'm stoked...
April 28, 2011
On Friday, June 3, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. I will humbly present a lecture during the 41st annual Glass Art Society Conference entitled “Fictitiously Commemorating the Actual Self.”
The presentation will address my personal interests in utilizing glass, imagery, and the written word within a sculptural context in relation to my work. In referencing historical glass, contemporary craft, and popular culture I will discuss the relevance of these sources to the development of the ideas and processes that guide my practice. I will also discuss my approach towards the narrative aspect of the work in relation to my interests in the essence of human fallibility, the human response to personal conflict, and the virtues within struggle, humility, and failure…discomforting factors that, whether we like it or not, allow us to continually redefine ourselves.
The presentation will address my personal interests in utilizing glass, imagery, and the written word within a sculptural context in relation to my work. In referencing historical glass, contemporary craft, and popular culture I will discuss the relevance of these sources to the development of the ideas and processes that guide my practice. I will also discuss my approach towards the narrative aspect of the work in relation to my interests in the essence of human fallibility, the human response to personal conflict, and the virtues within struggle, humility, and failure…discomforting factors that, whether we like it or not, allow us to continually redefine ourselves.
January 19, 2011
After finally getting some footing with my finances I'm happy to be putting the website back up. I'm also happy to have had a chance to reorganize the previous material and incorporate some of the new work I had exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Robert Lehman Gallery this past summer. Some more images should be appearing at some point soon as I'm wrapping up a few new pieces to shoot as well as re-photographing some previous work that could use better documentation.
At the moment I'm living and working in Rochester, New York where I serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor within the Glass Department of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
At the moment I'm living and working in Rochester, New York where I serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor within the Glass Department of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
