Endless Summer – LUMAS Special Art Edition Keeps Autumn Away
International Art Gallery Releases Limited-Time Special Edition by Stefanie Schneider
Berlin, November 13, 2018 – There’s no place like home! Practically just outside her front door, California-based artist Stefanie Schneider produces dreamlike Polaroid photography. Her work grants viewers passage into a sun-filled dreamworld that fills them with nostalgic longing. The international art gallery LUMAS has now released her artwork Santa Monica Palm Trees II as a Special Art Edition, bringing summer back and into art enthusiasts’ homes.
The LUMAS Special Art Edition reveals the boundless freedom Stefanie Schneider also felt when she first traveled to Los Angeles many years ago. “It was a time without a past or future, only the present,” she says, “and the palm trees were omnipresent, as though guiding the way – you only had to look to the sky.”
With palm trees or human subjects in surreal hues arranged before a seemingly endless expanse, Stefanie Schneider’s work feels removed from reality. The fascinating coloration is largely a product of the artist’s use of expired Polaroid film. Schneider does not apply any post-production processes to her images. The resulting images are created in-camera and represent the wonderful “non-process” of analog photography. The only post-production process is creating a perfect negative to match the original Polaroid, which Schneider then uses to make traditionally-processed prints by hand.
I am a perfectionist,” Schneider says, “but I work on perfecting chance.”
Facts
First released on October 26, 2018, the LUMAS Special Art Edition is only available for a short time in a limited-edition print run of 1,000 pieces. The artwork Santa Monica Palm Trees II measures 35.4 x 23.6 inches and is beautifully mounted under matte acrylic glass in a handmade, white floater frame – all for the fantastic price of $399.
About the Artist
In 1996, Stefanie Schneider acquired three boxes of old Polaroid film on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Since then, her work has been recognized not only for the square format so typical of Polaroid pictures but even more so for its surreal color. The exact outcome of a Stefanie Schneider piece always remains uncertain, because the aged chemical substances react unpredictably during development. What is not left to chance, however, are the eccentric and imaginative compositions themselves; Schneider plans the costumes, props, scenery, and their arrangement down to the finest detail.
About LUMAS
In over 37 galleries around the world, LUMAS offers museum-quality art editions. More than 3,000 works by 250 established artists and many promising newcomers deliver a comprehensive look into the contemporary art and design scenes. The works are available as hand-signed originals in limited editions of 75-150.