The series Colored Grids consists of a typology that is sewn and pleated and stretched over canvas. Malleable fabrics have been part of Schmidt’s practice for a long time going back to her childhood in Greece, where fabrics were often recycled. Schmidt sees painted fabrics functioning as a skin or a kind of garment. The pieces are prepared and painted in monochromatic shades of whites on raw cotton duck canvas, recalling the shades of whites of Agnes Martin. With the Colored Grids series, Schmidt maintains through sewing the configuration of a grid, but she lets slowly enter some colors onto the canvas. Instead of working with a deductive process, she is processing a primary color field that is in part painted with pigments and in part sewn with vintage fabrics. A monograph entitled Grids and Threads was published by Jovis in 2018 with a text by Jacoba Urist and an interview with Parrish Art Museum director Terrie Sultan. Grids and Threads was exhibited in 2018 at the Parrish Art Museum and the Watermill Center in Watermill, New York. Colored Grids was exhibited in 2019 at the Parrish Art Museum, part of the Artists Choose Artists series.
