ABOUT...
Toby Gotesman Schneier is an American, Expressionist Painter, best known for her unique ability to transform objects, people, scenes, & events into jarring and provocative works of art.
While seemingly casting aside any sense of the "expected", she perpetually strikes a chord of the utterly sublime & creates a viewer fascination with every painting.
Her compassion for THE HUMAN CONDITION, as well as her indefatigable belief in a HIGHER POWER are conspicuous throughout the work. It has been frequently noted that her art evokes a poignant sense of nostalgia and sentiment, even longing in the viewer, as the pieces appear to be laced with familiarity, ethnicity, & a heightened sense of irony & collective injustice.
Her unabashed and highly unusual use of color, shape, and texture, her astounding lack of conventional art mores, as well as her keen ability to SHOCK the viewer into some sort of ACTION with her BOLD & DIRECT IMAGERY, have gleaned her enormous notoriety throughout the International Art Community .
Her Critically Acclaimed, HOLOCAUST, HOMELESS, & HIV/AIDS COLLECTIONS, as well as her more WHIMSICAL, WOMEN IN DRESSES, UMBRELLAS, BEACH, & ABSTRACT COLLECTIONS, address a veritable plethora of subject matter & an impressive scope of abilities & viewpoints.
Gotesman Schneier somehow inserts & embeds a level of "coding" and "mission" into the paintings.
One never knows for certain whether the area in question was accidental or purely strategic on the artist's part.
This kind of "intriguing symbolism" has become a signature of her work.
Her true passion is her insatiable need to depict HUMAN SUFFERING in all of its disconcerting TRUTH.
The paintings have an "IN YOUR FACE" quality, while somehow capturing intrinsic beauty as well.
Her mantra being ,
"TRAGEDY ALWAYS HAPPENS IN COLOR"...
"Well, actually LIFE always happens in color..."
Her paintings are housed in several 'known', private collections and have been exhibited extensively in distinguished museums & galleries nationwide.
While seemingly casting aside any sense of the "expected", she perpetually strikes a chord of the utterly sublime & creates a viewer fascination with every painting.
Her compassion for THE HUMAN CONDITION, as well as her indefatigable belief in a HIGHER POWER are conspicuous throughout the work. It has been frequently noted that her art evokes a poignant sense of nostalgia and sentiment, even longing in the viewer, as the pieces appear to be laced with familiarity, ethnicity, & a heightened sense of irony & collective injustice.
Her unabashed and highly unusual use of color, shape, and texture, her astounding lack of conventional art mores, as well as her keen ability to SHOCK the viewer into some sort of ACTION with her BOLD & DIRECT IMAGERY, have gleaned her enormous notoriety throughout the International Art Community .
Her Critically Acclaimed, HOLOCAUST, HOMELESS, & HIV/AIDS COLLECTIONS, as well as her more WHIMSICAL, WOMEN IN DRESSES, UMBRELLAS, BEACH, & ABSTRACT COLLECTIONS, address a veritable plethora of subject matter & an impressive scope of abilities & viewpoints.
Gotesman Schneier somehow inserts & embeds a level of "coding" and "mission" into the paintings.
One never knows for certain whether the area in question was accidental or purely strategic on the artist's part.
This kind of "intriguing symbolism" has become a signature of her work.
Her true passion is her insatiable need to depict HUMAN SUFFERING in all of its disconcerting TRUTH.
The paintings have an "IN YOUR FACE" quality, while somehow capturing intrinsic beauty as well.
Her mantra being ,
"TRAGEDY ALWAYS HAPPENS IN COLOR"...
"Well, actually LIFE always happens in color..."
Her paintings are housed in several 'known', private collections and have been exhibited extensively in distinguished museums & galleries nationwide.