Embodiment Session V/VI: Figure Drawing with Alex Schmidt
Wed, Mar 12, 2025
4–5 pm
Photo by Jason Rogers
Styling by Bunny Lampert
Diary of a Monitor, 2023 (three videos on CRTVs) by Alex Schmidt
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Floor 6
Artist Alex Schmidt invites visitors to Embodiment Session: V/VI, a participatory figure drawing performance. Participants are invited to sketch and draw as Schmidt poses in response to the exhibition Shifting Landscapes. As both figure and host, Schmidt invites you to join them in considering “how we shape and are shaped by the spaces around us,” through creating a community-generated wealth of poses and drawings. Parallel to the way that Shifting Landscapes reconsiders the genre of landscape, Embodiment Session: V/VI is part of Schmidt’s ongoing engagement with the tradition of life drawing through interactive performance.
Materials will be provided; amateurs and professionals are equally cherished. Program begins at the east end of the Floor 6 Galleries. Please meet in front of Donna Huaca’s GUERRERA PROTECTORA (pancha) (2021).
Alex Schmidt works across performance, painting, text, social-engagement, and set design. Schmidt is a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Fellow (2024-2025). They have held solo presentations at Leslie-Lohman Museum (New York, NY) and Olympia (New York, NY), among others. Their figure drawing performances have been featured in the New Yorker and Vogue.
