Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery
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Les Schmidt
Fourth Place
Artist Statement
I took this photograph off the highway at sunset in rural Louisiana. Something struck me about this lone country tree flanked by a tiny fire hydrant. It’s as if the pump knows it has one job, and that’s to stay by the tree’s side and help protect it.
Biography
Les Schmidt (b. 1960 New Brunswick, NJ)
Attended the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts from 2003-2004.
He has exhibited extensively in the US including Los Angeles, CA; Naples, FL; Atlanta, GA; New Orleans, LA; Cooperstown, NY and Johnson City, TX and internationally in Budapest, Hungary and Crete, Greece.
He’s been a twice selected finalist for Naples Art Association’s Camera USA® National Photography Award (2016, 2017) as well as being curated into recent national exhibitions held at the Huntsville Museum of Art, Masur Museum of Art and Attleboro Arts Museum.
Les Schmidt works and resides in New Orleans, LA.
2019
Choice 2019 Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018
Snap to Grid Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Chania International Photo Festival Blank Wall Gallery, Grand Arsenali, Crete, Greece
St Tammany Art Association: 53rd National Juried Exhibition Miriam Baranger Gallery, Covington, LA
Monochrome: Juried International Photography Exhibition PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Urban Landscapes 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Still Life A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2017
Snap to Grid Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Portrait 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
STORM Solo Exhibition, Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
Atlanta Celebrates Photography: Photo Buckhead Buckhead Library, Atlanta, GA
Someone/Someplace: Figures, Portraits & Landscapes Western Bureau Arts, San Jose, CA
Street Photography: Juried International Photography Exhibition PH 21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Cooperstown Art Association: 82nd Annual National Exhibition CAA Village Building, Cooperstown, NY
The Red Clay Survey: 2017 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
St Tammany Art Association: 52nd National Juried Exhibition STAA Art House, Covington, LA
RECOLLECTIONS: A Community Photography Project New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA
It’s a Sign: The Medium is the Message 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Camera USA® 2017: National Photography Exhibition The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
Line – 2017 National Juried Exhibition Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Masur Museum of Art: 54th Annual Juried Competition Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
2016
New Beginnings: Insight Photography Show Rail Yard Studios, Nashville, TN
Highway 90: Beyond the Rigolets Solo Exhibition, Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
Abstracted Mpls Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
Portraiture: Photography Now Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
THINGS: a still life show 5 Press Gallery, New Orleans, LA
ARTifact Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
Fishing for Iconography 2 A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Camera USA® USA 2016: National Photography Exhibition The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2015
Dorothy Jean Solo Exhibition, Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans, LA