Rachel Schmidt

Out of Balance is an installation by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara. The artwork is made of projected video, sound, paint, chrome vinyl, cast paper rocks, and wrapped trash. The piece was created in 2019.

Vanishing Points is a site specific installation by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara created for the 2020 Spring Break Art Show, curated by Dawne Langford. The piece consists of 4 projected videos onto paper cast trash, trash wrapped in images of nature and faux-gilded frames, fabric, and fake fireplace with chairs. The piece was installed in a room 8'W x 16'L x 8'H in NYC, NY in 2020.

Breach is a projection drawing by Rachel Schmidt with sound by Kevin O'Meara. The artwork is 7'W x 4'H and consists of projected video, sound, pencil and watercolor on wood panel. The piece was created in 2019

Cairn Sounds is a single channel video projection based installation and performance space. Kevin O'Meara created the soundscape and is performing on the drum set inside the installation. The performance features, Kevin O'Meara, Rowan Corbett, Amanda Jiron-Murphy and the artist, Rachel Schmidt.

Artwork is a single channel video projection and adhesive backed prints completed in 2019 and features soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara.

This single channel video installation features soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara, chrome vinyl and printed drawings. Artwork runs on a 3:25 min loop and was completed in 2019.

This installation features a single channel looped video projection onto lace, sheer voile, paper cast rocks, and chrome vinyl. Soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara with a poem written by artist and read by Kenny Lindsay. Piece has a footprint of 6’ wide by 6’ deep by 10’ tall and runs on a 19:38 minute loop.

This site-specific installation completed in 2019 features a single channel video projection, sheer voile, paper cast trash, LED lights, and soundscapes by Kevin O’Meara

Drowning is a multi-media installation completed in 2017. The piece features looped masked video footage of a fish pond projected onto hundreds of paper objects cast from the artist's plastic waste. This particular installation is set in a room that is 30' x 20' with a 15' ceiling and uses 5 projectors. The completion of this work was supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

Tension is a multi-media installation completed in 2017. The piece contains several flat wooden sculptures with pulsing LED lights that are spread throughout the space. The wall mounted sculpture has a single channel looped video projected onto it that features content from an artist residency in Taipei, Taiwan. This particular installation is set in a room 30' x 23' with 15' ceiling. The completion of this work was supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

This collaborative project and installation by Basurama and Rachel Schmidt, is seen installed at the Former Residence to the Spanish Ambassador in Washington DC and was apart of the Fair Water project in 2019. This double channel video projection based installation, features hundreds of water bottles collected by the embassy and used in the final exhibition. Through a series of workshops around DC, participants shared their memories of water, which inspired the video content and is the audio heard throughout the installation.

Distort Displace is a temporary public art installation at the Arlington Arts Center completed in 2018. The installation features glowing platforms covered in astro-turf and lawn chairs.

Monument for Picnics recreates an outdoor picnic scene from the early twenty-first century by using recycled materials to create an immersive future landscape. This piece was installed at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building as a part of the By the People Festival hosted by Halcyon in June, 2018. Music in video is by Sligo Creek Stompers.

Endless Banquet is six-channel video/sculptural installation featuring footage of sharks projected through an assortment of glasses spread out on a ¾ circular table. The light refraction is caused by the projected light being curved through the glasses. The hanging screen is 11 feet in diameter hanging at 7.5 feet off the ground and the table is 4 feet tall. Drew Doucette helped produce the videos and created the audio for the piece and it was completed in 2017.

Nostalgia Monument: Float Trip Edition features five months of the artist's non-biodegradable trash covered with images of manicured and natural flora including grasses, mosses, leaves, and brush. A looped video projection of people on a float trip is viewed from lawn chairs with the trash spread through out the space. The audio features soundscapes created by Red Sky studio and it was completed in 2017.

Drifters is a site-specific installation created while in residence at the Taipei Artist Village in Taipei, Taiwan in February 2017. Large tissue paper cast sculptures sit on glowing LED light bases and hang from the ceiling surrounded by a tissue paper canopy. Two looped projected videos of swimming sharks are projected onto the sculptures and across the space, which is approximately 15' x 23'.

Ice Dreams: L.A. is a site specific installation on the rooftop of the GAIT LA studio building in the fashion/flower district of downtown Los Angeles in 2016. The installation featured two videos projected onto two elevator towers with the city skyline visible between them. There are glacier like sculptures spread out on the roof top that had LED lights underneath that were programmed to slowly pulse. The installation included a soundtrack created in collaboration with the band, Beauty Pill, which is the audio heard in the video.

Drawing collage printed onto 140’ x 6.5’ of vinyl mesh and wrapped the corner of 5th and K NW Washington DC.

Triads is a film short documenting a series of performances composed by Ledah Finck and curated by Hannah Davis.

Music by Ken Quam video by Rachel Schmidt

Animation created for solo exhibition Forgotten Futures, depicting the fantastical adventures of the last elephant on earth.