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Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, & Toni Ross with David Rhodes

The Brooklyn Rail
8/25/2022

”Multimedia artist Bastienne Schmidt works with photography, painting, and large-scale drawings. She was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Italy, and has lived in New York and Bridgehampton for the past 25 years. Schmidt grew up in Greece as the daughter of an archaeologist, which influenced her desire to organize, map, and understand various systems through her artwork. She has exhibited internationally including The International Center of Photography, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, among many others. Seven monographs have been published on her work, most recently Typology of Women (2016) and Grids and Threads (2018).”

Insight Sunday with Bastienne Schmidt

The Church
8/24/2022

”Schmidt spoke on her work, Measuring Time, Grid Calendar (2020), featured in our summer exhibition Threading the Needle, which explores how the conceptual approaches of contemporary art intersect with the expertise and skill of craft techniques. In her piece, Schmidt uses the grid as a minimalist meditation on space, perception, and systems. Using materials of muslin fabric, string, and thin transparent paper, this piece was created during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. In relation to the title, the work records the passage of time in a period of uncertainty and disquiet.”

The Artist’s View: Bastienne Schmidt

Parrish Art Museum
12/19/2019

”Bastienne Schmidt (German, b. 1961) is a multi-media artist working with photography, painting, and large-scale drawings. Being the daughter of an archaeologist influenced her creative process and instilled a desire to organize, map, and understand systems through her artwork. Inspired by ancient Greek ceramics, Japanese woodcuts, fairytales, and American pop culture, her work often incorporates and transforms archetypal shapes. Schmidt’s work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, NY; Brooklyn Museum; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Parrish Art Museum; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, among others. Born in Germany and raised in Greece and Italy, she lives in New York and East Hampton.”