NYAB Event - Gary Schneider "HandPrint Portraits, Johannesburg"

Gary Schneider "HandPrint Portraits, Johannesburg"

David Krut Projects

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David Krut Projects presents "HandPrint Portraits, Johannesburg", a solo exhibition of recent photographs by artist, Gary Schneider. Schneider has been making HandPrint portraits since 1996, but has never before had a show solely devoted to this work. This exhibition marks the first time Schneider has explored a particular community outside of his family and friends.

“These photographs, made without a camera, are sweat and heat imprints onto film emulsion. I consider handprint portraits to be as expressive as any of a face, more private, and possibly more revealing. They do not reveal race and, often, neither gender nor age. I borrow the imprint technique from the caves of Lascaux, (the earliest know examples of self identification) the ‘Shroud of Turin’, Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Female Fig Leaf,’ Yves Klein’s body prints, Jasper John’s ‘Studies for Skin’, and 19th century Spirit Photography.” --Gary Schneider

In July 2011, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, presented a survey of the work of South African born artist, Gary Schneider; it was his first exhibition in South Africa. While in Johannesburg, Schneider set up a small darkroom at Wits University Art School where he made over 50 HandPrints of artists and other members of the creative community. This New York exhibition presents a small selection of these portraits, including large-scale handprints of Senzeni Marasela, Jo Ractliffe, William Kentridge, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi, Frank Malaba and David Goldblatt. In December 2011, Schneider will return to South Africa to continue this typological exploration in Cape Town.

Gary Schneider was born in South Africa and moved to New York where he has lived since 1977. He has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town and a Master of Fine Art from Pratt Institute in New York.