Jennifer Schmidt:
Deciduous Leaves Turn.
On View: January 23, 2021 - February 7, 2021
Trestle Gallery is pleased to present Jennifer Schmidt: Deciduous Leaves Turn., an exhibition culminating from Schmidt's time as an Artist-in-Residence in 2020 as part of Trestle Gallery's Visiting Artist Residency (VAR) program. VAR Residents are offered a studio at Trestle Art Space to explore and deepen their practice, while sharing their artistic experience and creative process with the Trestle Art Space community and the public.
Deciduous Leaves Turn. is a walking, writing, speaking, installation project— informed by the time we are living in, visual and auditory observations of community, and neighborhood development. Through poetry, performance, and printed publications, the project questions ideas of public and private space, social presentation, personal responsibility, and everyday patterns of decision making.
Referencing philosophy and an interplay of characters and events relating in time, Schmidt will read her poetry as a performance within the gallery and on the street, while leading a socially distanced walk through Sunset Park, Green-Wood Heights, and Park Slope, Brooklyn beginning at the gallery near the BQE, prison, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Industry City, and continuing past the gas station, police station, school, hotel as shelter, new hotel, bodega, residential houses, eventually to follow the contour of historic Green-Wood Cemetery through light industrial spaces up the hill within view of the Statue of Liberty. Participants will be able to see and observe how neighborhoods continue to develop firsthand, as well as, the effect of changing sentiments involving cemeteries and death on urban planning. Participants will be invited to sit in the open air on the sidewalk for a reading within close proximity to green space, utilities, businesses, and residences, in an area that is both public and private—enacting “the woods” of the city.
Visitors to the gallery may experience the installation, attend a reading, and participate in a performance as a walk, sitting-in at a site-specific location.
Trestle Gallery, 850 3rd Ave, Suite 411, Brooklyn, NY 11232
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Performance Events:
Reading / Walking / Sitting-In (outdoors, in person):
Saturday January 23, 3pm & Saturday, January 30, 3pm
After visiting the exhibition, all are welcome to join the artist on a participatory walk from the gallery, along a curated route through Sunset Park, to Green-Wood Cemetery, where Schmidt will perform a reading of her poetry.
Reading / Walking / Page-Turning on Zoom:
Sunday, January 24, 4pm, Sunday, January 31, 4pm, & Sunday, February 7, 4pm
Poetry reading performance with Schmidt will be accessible via Zoom.