Art Athina
September 16 - 19, 2022
Booth No. I-11
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Amelia Lockwood & Noah Schneiderman
Amelia Lockwood, 456 labra, 2022. Stoneware, glaze, 18”h x 24”w x 4”d.
Noah Schneiderman, Eidetic Vision, 2022. Oil on canvas dyed with indigo, madder root and marigold, 14”h x 12”w x 1⅜”d.
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The Valley is pleased to present new works by Amelia Lockwood and Noah Schneiderman at Art Athina, taking place from September 16-19 at the Zappeion Mansion in Athens, Greece. This will be the gallery’s and both artists’ first international art fair.
Amelia Lockwood’s sculptures were made this summer while living and working in Athens in a residency sponsored by The Valley at Sealed Earth Ceramic Studio. Utilizing local stoneware clay and materials, the works were inspired by Cycladic art and design and the architectural character of Athens. This presentation features a range of vessels and “labras” aswirl with celestial imagery, flashes of soda ash, and dark oxidized accents. Noah Schneiderman’s paintings utilize his experience with natural dye techniques to create canvases that are colored with iron, cutch, indigo, madder root, and marigold as bases for his paintings. Working from dyed canvas allows him to begin with an automatic drawing, looking for imagery to come forward from the dyed surface and reveal itself. Expanding on the body of work in his recent solo exhibition at The Valley, these paintings feature folkloric figures, ethereal marks, and richly textural surfaces. Lockwood and Schneiderman both prioritize an intuitive way of working, privileging the guidance imbued in the materials they work with. Their pairing in this presentation highlights a shared appreciation for the alchemy of working with materials derived from the earth, plant matter, and mineral compounds.
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Amelia Lockwood (b.1990) is a Los Angeles based artist whose practice privileges gestural language to produce objects that are reflections of our energetic surroundings. Lockwood received her BFA from Syracuse University (2012), completed post-bac studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2016), and received her MFA from The University of California, Los Angeles (2020). Selected exhibitions include Various Small Fires, Maia’s Pool, James Wright Gallery, In Lieu, One Trick Pony, Five Car Garage Gallery and Odd Ark.
Noah Schneiderman is a multi-disciplinary artist born in 1996 in rural Illinois. The primary focus of Noah’s practice are his paintings which function as mirrors to his inner life and cultivate an understanding of self and an understanding of the world. Informed by nature, memory, and the mystical, these works seek to brush against that which lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. Noah lives and works in Denver, CO.
