Kristine Schomaker

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    • Compass Rose, 643 Project Space Oct 2021
    • Sculpture Garden at High Beams July 2021
    • Art Under Cover Shoebox Prjcts Sept 2019
    • Let Me Eat Cake Too, Blue Roof Studios
    • Steve Seleska, Taj Art, August 2018
    • Let Me Eat Cake at PØST July 2018
    • Shoebox at Blue Roof Studios, June 2018
    • Reality of Nature at Launch LA Sept 2017
    • No Restraint at Ark Gallery Sept 2017
    • State of the Union, Brainworks, Feb 2017
    • Powers of Nine, Highland 913 Feb 2017
    • Feminist Perspective, Muzeumm 2016
    • Feminist Perspective, Montalban, 2015
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    Running interference- new paintings

    Running interference- new paintings

    This is the title of my new series of work. The title has a couple different meanings. First, it is based on the specific type of paint I use. It is called ‘interference’ paint. “An Interference color is laminated mica pigment that “flip-flops” from a main color to a weak complimentary one. The phenomenon is similar to naturally occurring light interferences such as gas or oil on water, or a butterfly wing. The position of the viewer and the direction of the light source crea
    Reflections… socially constructed ideas of ‘beauty’

    Reflections… socially constructed ideas of ‘beauty’

    I am reposting my reply from comments in my last blog post  because I think it is important and  continues this conversation… My work on body image has always been about a universal dialogue. While I may use myself as a subject, I am discussing issues of feminism and female representation that have been going on for years and years. I am just using my work and myself to keep the dialogue going. I didn’t mean for this post to sound like it was a jab at my own self esteem and s
    The Paper Doll Project

    The Paper Doll Project

    Me, about 10 minutes  ago My hair has been short for about a year and a half now. I had it shaved for an art performance in which I was challenging media’s distortion of beauty as well as society’s perception of gender and stereotypes. I am a woman. I am a heterosexual woman who likes men. Why should I have long hair, wear stilettos, short skirts and wear caked on make-up to attract a man? I just don’t get it. Or, actually, I do get it, It just makes me sad, so I try to ignor
    New paintings

    New paintings

    Just finished my first four paintings of a new  series. I am in my element again!! #feminism #conceptual #art #community #painting #paint #JacksonPollock #contemporaryart #womenartists #JerrySaltz #DigitalArt #abstractart #contemporary #modern #Facebook #JohnBerger #Abstract #fineart #artists #artist #paints #mixedmedia #arts #feministart #bohemian #abstractexpressionism #Performanceart #patternanddesign #artwork #arthistory #breweryartwalk #Feministarthistory #visualart #dra

    Binge and Purge… the video!

    The lovely Nina Camplin/Fuschia Nightfire filmed the whole 5+ hours of my first “Binge and Purge” performance/installation  in Second Life. She then edited that down to 25 minutes and then sped it up and added this way cool music. Check it out!!! #losangeles #feminism #conceptual #virtualworld #art #community #painting #avatar #virtualreality #contemporaryart #DigitalArt #LEA #secondlife #contemporary #metaverse #virtualart #cyberspace #virtual #modern #Facebook #lindenendowm
    Support your local artists!! Buy art for the Holidays!!

    Support your local artists!! Buy art for the Holidays!!

    Support In October I opened my studio for the 3rd time for the Brewery Artwalk. As always it was such an amazing experience. I met so many new people, caught up with long time friends and made great connections for myself and the Brewery Artwalk Association. Oh did I tell you? I am now the President of the Brewery Artwalk Association!!! Help me raise money to continue my project “A comfortable skin.” I want to buy 11 more mannequins, plus size/full figured women to make an in
    The Avatars on display… @Create:Fixate a one night art event in DTLA

    The Avatars on display… @Create:Fixate a one night art event in DTLA

    I was honored to be invited to display the avatars at Create:Fixate a one night art event in Downtown LA last night. It was a fun night of art, music, drinks and friends. I hung out by the Avatars and decided to take photos of the people taking photos with them. It was an interesting experience. I wanted to jump out of my skin every time someone grabbed their boobs!!! There were signs saying don’t touch… but alas people still did!! I almost feel violated!! Geesh!!! All in all

    Where art lives!!! (and where I live!)

    #LlynFoulkes #losangeles #feminism #conceptual #art #community #painting #BruceDean #EmilyHalpern #collector #ClaudiaEndler #KevinFlint #show #avatar #TwoBitCircus #TealeHathaway #bodyimage #newmedia #AndreMiripolsky #contemporaryart #DigitalArt #BillLeighBrewer #abstractart #contemporary #metaverse #Cerospace #ChuckSwenson #photography #artgallery #BrendaHurst #cyberspace #ChristopherCooper #Openstudios #gallery #DistopianStudios #modern #Facebook #NicoleFournier #installati
    The end of an era… or… new beginnings?

    The end of an era… or… new beginnings?

    It  kind of depends on whether you think the cup is half empty or half full as to what you think of my latest virtual performance/installation. Yes, I deleted my entire inventory in Second Life. Or what I was allowed to delete. Turns out I can’t delete my library or calling cards. Well I can delete calling cards, but they just show up again because I still have those friends on my list. AND I am NOT deleting my friends!!! This past Sunday,  I finished the performative aspect
    Saying Good-bye… to Second Life stuff!

    Saying Good-bye… to Second Life stuff!

    Please join me Sunday Oct 20th at 10am pst/slt as I finish the durational performance where I delete the entire contents of my Second Life Inventory. The performance/installation Binge and Purge was going to slowly be played out until the end of December. While I still have the space and  will continue the installation on a conceptual level, I am going to finish the purge and delete my entire inventory on Sunday. One of the main reasons I am finishing tomorrow is because of t
    Post-Brewery Artwalk/Pre-Holiday Art Sale!!! 25% off!!!!

    Post-Brewery Artwalk/Pre-Holiday Art Sale!!! 25% off!!!!

    This last weekend I opened my studio for the 3rd time for the Brewery Artwalk. As always it was such an amazing experience. I met so many new people, caught up with long time friends and made great connections for myself and the Brewery Artwalk Association. Oh did I tell you? I am now the President of the Brewery Artwalk Association!!! Because the holidays are close at hand and in post-Artwalk/inventory clearance fashion, I have decided to hold a weekend only sale. Everything
    GO BIG OR GO HOME!!

    GO BIG OR GO HOME!!

    So, remember a couple days ago when I said I was going to grow out my hair? It was already getting a bit longer, ok it was only 1/2 an inch, but still, long for me. Why not continue to let it grow? Why not go back to when I had longer hair? This whole hair thing is an every-changing, ongoing process. I keep trying to figure  out what it means. Why did I shave my head in the first place. I am pretty impulsive after all. I wanted to make a statement about body image, my frustra
    Why I wear a wig…

    Why I wear a wig…

    The last couple of art events I have gone to, I have warn a bright pink wig. I bought the wig a year and a half ago and thought it would be fun to play with. It sat alone untouched for over a year until a friend came over and saw it and wanted to photograph me wearing it. I put it on along with a super cool hat I bought from the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA and I was transformed. I thought it was total fun and imagined having my real hair like this. Alas, I am not able to do t
    #firstworldproblems

    #firstworldproblems

    “I have a confession: I’m a wannabe minimalist. And I use the term wannabe loosely because this minimalism thing? It’s a work in progress. I’m not a minimalist. But I deeply strive to live with less. I know. It sounds crazy. Less stuff? What type of person on earth wants less stuff? The natural tendency is to accumulate. It’s weird and unconventional to not want more. We’re taught to always strive for more. Buy the bigger home, acquire more friends and followers, log more hou
    What does it mean to be one-of-a-kind in the digital world?

    What does it mean to be one-of-a-kind in the digital world?

    One of the interesting conversations started from my project “Binge and Purge” is that of the unique, one-of-a-kind work of art in Second Life. You can read a couple blog posts and the comments on Ziki Questi’s blog here and my own blog here and here. Thinking about my own inventory, I don’t believe I have anything that is totally one-of-a-kind.  I have a Japanese Tea House a friend gave me, but he still has a copy and I am sure gave other people copies. I have bought limited
    The fragility of life

    The fragility of life

    When I set out to create a work of art, whether a performance or installation, a painting or collage, I normally don’t have any plans. I might have some thoughts and ideas written out but I do this particular project because it is something I have to express – an idea I have to communicate, some dialogue I have to start, a notion that I have to challenge. The last few projects/performances I have done have been dramatic and extreme: I shaved my head; I did a photography proje
    NEW WORK!!!

    NEW WORK!!!

    So It has been a crazy busy time for me. I just moved to a new loft… _____________________________ I am reconnecting with good friends… I picked up the Avatars from the Beverly Hills Gallery. So glad to have the girls safe at home…LOL _____________________________ I am also working on some new pieces. Right now I have to put any new Avatars on hold until I can get enough money to have them made. In the meantime I had to work on something else. I decided to play around with th
    My life as performance art

    My life as performance art

    A year ago, almost to the day, I had my shoulder length blond hair shaved off. It was one of the most freeing experiences I have ever had. I didn’t know what I would look like with a bald head (Or actually buzzed, as my friend used a #2 razor) but I didn’t care. I had to do it. I was so tired of seeing women in the media (and elsewhere) objectified for their appearance. “Portia Di Rossi cut off her ‘signature’ locks,” “Charlize Theron shaved off her gorgeous blond hair.” Why
    “Self Portrait as an Avatar”

    “Self Portrait as an Avatar”

    So it’s 1245am…and I couldn’t sleep. I had been laying in bed for almost an hour, listening to my clock radio playing Abba “Dancing Queen” (couldn’t keep my feet from tapping with the time) and just couldn’t fall asleep. I have been so overwelmed this last 2-3 weeks with so much on my mind, that I decided I had to just spill. I have been trying to work on my artist statement, or at least some type of statement as to what I want to do for my thesis project. After many pages of

    My so called second Life…

    The title of this post is taken from a Times article from Dec of 2006, and also a panel discussion that was held at the College Art Association conference in Feb of this year. I think its a great way to start my new art endeavor. As most of you know, I am a Grad student at California State University in Northridge. I was originally an Art History Grad student finishing all of my course work and working on my thesis, when I made the huge decision to change objectives to Studio