We Pivoted and We're Ready (Show This Weekend)
- Kristine Schomaker
- Jul 5
- 2 min read
"The Architecture of Perception"
A Two-Person Show with Julie O'Sullivan
Hey everyone,
As artists we learn to pivot and be flexible. The show originally scheduled for September was moved to July and guess what—Julie and I are ready. Let's do this.
"The Architecture of Perception" opens this weekend at The Los Angeles Makery in Little Tokyo, and I'm beyond excited to share this space with Julie O'Sullivan. We're both building structures from the raw materials of experience, just in completely different ways.

What You'll See
Julie paints joy—her canvases literally vibrate with the sounds of Los Angeles. She transforms the sirens bouncing off Little Tokyo buildings, the ocean waves near her home, the beautiful cacophony of urban life into frequencies of color that make you feel alive just looking at them.
My work comes from internal archaeology. For over a decade, I've been cutting up everything—paintings, photographs, pieces of my past selves—because destruction became my meditation. Now I'm in reconstruction mode, building wall sculptures from thousands of fragments that take up space aggressively.

The Work in the Show
Archive of Becoming - Twenty-five years of paintings, cut up and released from their fixed meanings. Fragments from 1998 to 2023 exploded across the wall in joyful chaos, creating new conversations between past selves and present possibilities.
POW!!! (The Keys to Everything) - The sound of impact when you stop trying to be small. Meditative pandemic drawings, drop cloths, decades of paintings—all cut up and transformed into ammunition for taking up space. Eleven fragments on each keyring, hung together like secrets you finally have permission to unlock.

Losing Weight - Fifty-two years of my life, shredded. Not the shrinking of my body to meet impossible standards, but the shedding of everything that has kept me small. Ten feet of transparent bags holding the fragments of who I was told to be.
Mechanism of Change - Participatory fragments you can touch, move, rearrange. What started as complete paintings became monumental sculpture became these playful pieces that invite you to practice your own letting go.

Show Details
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 6, 2-4pm Also Open During DTLA Artwalk: Wednesday, July 10, 5-9pm On View: July 5-31 Location: The Los Angeles Makery - Subterra Gallery 533 S Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles
This dialogue between Julie's environmental frequencies and my reconstructed fragments reveals two approaches to the essential human task of making meaning from chaos. We're both refusing to be passive receivers of reality—we're actively constructing something new from experience.
Come see what perception looks like when it takes up space.
With love and fragments,Kristine
Follow the journey: Instagram: @kristineschomaker
Website: kristineschomaker.net
P.S. That second photo is me surrounded by 52 years of shredded life—all those transparent bags you'll see in "Losing Weight." Sometimes the best selfies happen in the middle of your own transformation.

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