Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts presents ‘Because Drawing Round Squares Takes Practice’, a collaborative exhibition by Bahamian artists Heino Schmid and Tessa Whitehead.
With the work being produced directly in the gallery space, the conversation between artist and material has yielded a methodology where the work exists as a cumulative presentation. At once a sculpture, installation and drawing, Schmid and Whitehead have substituted wooden beams, nails, concrete and rope for a pencil.
A description rather than a definition, the work articulates more presence than effacement, and certitude than experiment. The once purposeful material is now read as a mark. A synonym for the accumulation in the Bahamian landscape, familiar objects are re-identified but not redefined.
About The Artists:
Heino Schmid (1976): recent exhibitions include ‘Material and Sculpture’, Liquid Courage Gallery (2013), Into the Mix, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville USA (2012), Wrestling with the Image, Art Museum of Americas, Washington, USA (2011). Schmid received The Commonwealth Connections International Residency Award (2010).
Tessa Whitehead (1985): recent exhibitions include ‘Wells Art Contemporary Prize, Well’s Museum, UK (2013), Painting Parade, LeandaKateLouise, London, UK (2013), COPY, Paper Gallery, Manchester, UK (2013). Whitehead was awarded Chisenhale Studio Residency (2013).
Heino Schmid & Tessa Whitehead
Popopstudios International Centre for the Visual Arts
26, Dunmore Avenue, Chippingham, Nassau
Private View: Thursday 13th February 2014 6pm-9pm
Exhibition continues to March 22nd 2014
