Lynda SmithSchick is an artist photographing the natural world as metaphorical expressions of her inner world, plus environmental and social concerns. She also handcrafts natural materials into objects and compositions to photograph.
She received a BA in Interior Design practicing for decades before pursuing a photography career. SmithSchick is intrigued with how the principles and elements of design can be applied in the practices of both photography, design and can be seen in the natural world. She’s studied at Santa Fe Workshops, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, OK Arts Institute Quartz Mountain and online with Griffin Museum and Los Angeles Center of Photography.
She has exhibited in solo and juried shows throughout the United States and Europe such as Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, Center of Fine Art Photography in Colorado, 11th & 13th Julia Margaret Cameron awards at Fotonostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, A. Smith Gallery, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, Praxis Gallery and has been published in Lenscratch.
She sustains body, mind, spirit with practices in yoga, mediation, gardening, cooking, reading, walks on the beach and in the trees. SmithSchick lives and works on the Gulf Coast and in the midwest.
Artist Statement
I use the camera as a tool for self-expression to record personal phases of my life. This transparent work reflects my introspective responses as I process these periods. It’s an outward, metaphorical expression of my inward world.
Being quite inquisitive, I’m drawn to unearth back stories of my environmental concerns, and draw attention to these causes with my photographs. I use natural materials making compositions or transforming them into new configurations to photograph.
The natural world provides inspiration for my work and is a respite from life’s strains. I’m filled by the “well of nature’s abundant offerings” and by making photographs.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia, “The Best Is In Front Of Me”, Curator: Evgeny Komuhin 2021 Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia,”The Best Is In Front Of Me” Curator: Evgeny Komuhin 2011Urban Teahouse, OK City, OK, “Green” 2010 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, “12x12 Juried Preview Exhibition”,OK City,OK,”Beit Shean” 2010 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, 12x12 Juried Exhibition, OK City, OK “Beit Shean”
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2023 ADD SPACE BILLBOARD EXHIBITION, Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2023 Praxis Gallery, “Still Life” Juror: Kimberly Witham 2022 17th Annual Black and White Spider Awards 2021Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Annual Members’ Show, Juror: Aline Smithson 2020 Center For Photographic Art, Carmel, California, 2020 International Juried Exhibition, Juror: Aline Smithson 2019 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, FotoNostrum Galeria, Barcelona, Spain, Juror: Elisabeth Biondi 2019 PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, “Black and White”, Juror: Jennifer Schlesinger 2018 PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, ”Still Life: Elevating the Mundane”, Juror: Kimberly Witham 2018 11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, FotoNostrum Galeria, Barcelona, Spain, Juror: Analy Werbin 2018 A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, "Being Set Free" Jurors: Karen Divine, Melanie Walker, Amanda Smith, Diana Perkins, Kevin Tully 2017 A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, "Vistas", Juror: Dan Burkholder 2017 A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City TX, “Response”, Jurors: Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully 2010 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, “12 x 12 Preview Exhibition”, OK City, OK Jurors: OVAC Exhibition Committee 2010 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, 12 x 12 Exhibition, OK City, OK Jurors: OVAC Exhibition Committee
