East Bay painter and art activist
Dickson Schneider
brings his Free Art Project to San Francisco for the first time. He
will be displaying art at the gallery which is free to take home to
people who visit.
In 2008 Professor Schneider began the
free art project with his students so they could experience the
relationship between their art and the viewing public. Bringing his
students to the Oakland (California) Art Murmur to give away art,
Schneider was so moved by the disarming nature of the exchange that he
made it the foundation of his own art practice.
Over the past five years Schneider has
created over 2800 works of art to give away to the public on the street
in Oakland and last December at the commercially charged “bling”
spectacle of Art Basel Miami. In July he took the Project to the
Kunstraum Tapir gallery in Berlin, Germany and made art there which was
displayed in the gallery and available free to passersby. The Berlin
project was featured on Deutschlandradio, a national Art and Culture
program.
In Rhyme nor Reason, the Free Art
Project, San Francisco, the Gallery will be showing Schneider’s works in
an ever changing array as work is taken by the public. The title
reflects the work that will be shown; an uninhibited, unrestricted
creative melange. The Free Art Project is both fun and serious
commentary on the social/political world of contemporary art. It is the
artist’s critique of status, privilege, access, and how art is valued.
Dickson Schneider teaches painting and
art at California State University East Bay. He is represented in
California by Autobody Fine Art. His work is in collections from London
to Hong Kong. Mr. Schneider is the author of Every Angler’s Guide to
Amazing Lures and Flies, Viking, 1997.
art show:
NOVEMBER 3 (opening),
(from 1 – 6 PM)
NOVEMBER 8 – 10, (from 1 – 6 PM)
NOVEMBER 15 – 17, (from 1 – 6 PM)
location:
Paolo Mejia Art Gallery and Design Studio
4343 3rd St., Suite B
San Francisco, Ca 94124
contact:
Dickson Schneider –
dschneid66@aol.com
Paolo Mejia –
paolomejia@hotmail.com
