Using ink and paint, Cameron Schmitz transforms singular written words into a universal and symbolic visual experience bound by no singular language. Her focus on repetition touches upon the notion of tradition within cultural and human experience.

Schmitz comes to Kasini House after a successful stint as a staff artist resident at the Vermont Studio Center. She studied painting and art history at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from the University of New Hampshire and a Masters of Fine Arts in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the oldest art school in the country. She has exhibited her art in numerous venues in the Northeast and has her work, including commissions, in private collections located in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Washington, D.C., and Florida.

While at Kasini House, Schmitz plans to develop new work that moves forward and challenges her as an artist and to offer her viewers new ways to think, feel and see. “I think that the environment in and around one’s studio is incredibly powerful and influential on an artist’s work,” said Schmitz.

“Though much of my creativity is fueled by solitary time in the studio to think, reflect, research, and produce, I plan to use the unique opportunity of being housed in Kasini House to share ideas, knowledge and interests with the surrounding community, artists, and larger public.” Schmitz will investigate new materials and conceptual means of expression and continue to explore the role of text in her work.

Artist Statement

Many questions may never be answered. However, in the repetition of inquiry we are perhaps led to another place, a valuable space to meander and reflect upon that is more meaningful in the end. In this intellectual, spiritual, physical, and creative experience, repetition becomes symbolic. Through it I have discovered a curious pulse that resonates persistence; a persistence to reflect upon the words that we speak and write and the images that we see. Through the repetition of text and specific words I explore visual experiences that are rhythmic, excessive, obsessive, meditative, and transformative.

Through the process of interlocking words I find new meaning and insightful experiences. In this process I seek to explore the possibilities of literally engaging a specific verbal and written language to a visual language that is open and universal. A system of communication with its own set of conventions can transcend into another form of expression bound by no singular language.

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