KATY SCHIMERT

Working across a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, and film, Katy Schimert uses fragments of personal experience as her conceptual impetus; the intersection of the fine and decorative arts is a formal point of departure for the artist. Densely layered and vaguely topographical, her drawings suggest sequences of cosmic or otherworldly events populated by ethereal human figures. In her intricate three-dimensional works, human and familiar forms serve as physical containers for encoded thoughts and symbols. Schimert’s dynamic surfaces, which continue to unfold after prolonged viewing, are essentially volumetric drawings (she often draws and paints on the exteriors of the forms). Fully manipulating and reinventing each surface, she creates what she describes as “space for illusion.” The results of this investigation are not only visually compelling, but formally succinct – this allows her works in various media to meld together as many pieces of a broad, ongoing visual essay.