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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"I am Flowers" - for Koko the gorilla, Bouquet Play (12) Acrylic, collage, pochoir, colored pencil & embroidery thread on canvas, 14 x 11. in. 2026 ✂️🌼 #clippedwords #flowersforKoko #iamflowers #paintandcollage #jovischnell

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Bouquet Play - Pandemonium of One 14 x 11 in. mixed media on canvas, 2025 Pochoir (French: “stencil”), Often called hand colouring. Henri Matisse’s made stencil prints in his illustrated book with handwritten text Jazz (1947) Pablo Picasso & Joan Miró also made hand illustrated books using pochoir.

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Excited to share - Thrutopia - a group exhibition that I cocurated with artist Niki Ford opening at • Face Guts, October 16th, 6-9 pm, Los Angeles, CA. • #thrutopia #faceguts #theonlywayoutisthrough #contemporaryart #laarts #groupshow #losangeles

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Let's Grow Over, Over ○ 14 x 11 in. 2025. acrylic and collage on canvas. 🌱❤️‍🩹🐛 Ever felt like we put our catapillar shoes on backwards? #wemustrepeat #letsgrow #collageoncanvas #jovischnell #laarts

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"Here to Grow Free", Bouquet Play (9), 14 x 11 in. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 2025 #contemporaryart #losangeles #jovischnell #floralart #collageoncanvas #anythinggrows

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My spin on the Green Lion alchemical symbol, which consumes the essence of life by devouring the sun, the source of all green plant life, so becoming green. Psychologically, it parallels with the hero that assimilates their own ferocity. An ego death & transformation tale. #jovischnell #LApainting

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mepaintsme.bsky.social @mepaintsme.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Yabu Chosui, Portrait of a Rabbit, 19th century, Color woodblock print; surimono ·

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Step & Repeat, Great group show with too many good artists to post here at LAMAG 💫 Amir Fallah Liv Aanrud Aili Schmeltz Terri Friedman #laarts #lamag #stepandrepeat

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Sweet tour of the California House here in LA, a case study inspired home by Peter Gluck + architects cool to learn what was thinking about through an in person Q&A. All the work involves making it look like it was easy. #Gluck+ #californiahouse #architecture #losangeles

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Marilyn Minter @marilynminter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Check out the brilliant Laura Owens show at Mathew Marks Gallery ! It has hidden doors too 21 century “abstract illusionism” It’s soooo good!!

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Really enjoyed Lightscape by artist Doug Aitken caught the collaboration with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. #MarcianoArtFoundation #DougAitken #laarts #contemporaryart

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Charmion von Weigand Summer Wheat Ruby Sky Stiler Sister Corita Kent #frieze #contemporaryart #losangeles #laarts

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Artforum @artforum.com · 18/02/2025

Pathbreaking Conceptual artist Mel Bochner, whose painted, free-floating mathematical equations and contextless phrases reshaped the canon of contemporary art, died on February 12 at the age of eighty-four.

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Mel Bochner (1940–2025)

Conceptual artist Mel Bochner, whose free-floating mathematical equations and contextless phrases reshaped contemporary art, died on February 12.

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Teaching a fun experimental painting workshop at Anderson Ranch this summer. We will explore innovative gameplay, chance & divination tools as creative frameworks using paint & mixed media collage on canvas. 🎨🎱🌱🎲✨️♥️ www.jovischnell.com/blog #andersonranch #paintingworkshop #jovischnell

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News and blog documenting the exhibitions and creative projects of artist Jovi Schnell.

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sarajofrieden.bsky.social @sarajofrieden.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“the earth laughs in flowers” installation at historic Dome center for Art music dance, 2024.

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Plant Oracle -Yes, Maybe, No, 2019, acrylic on canvas. 🌱🔮 Just passed this one onto friends who lost everything in the Los Angeles fires. 💔 May it bring them some joy. 🌞 #plantoracle #losangeles #painting #jovischnell

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Cut out the hybrid of Through & Utopia to see what I can fashion from its positive and negative shapes. The portmanteau, from what I've gleaned, is a prompt for artists to reimagine a way between the binaries of Utopia & Dystopia. More to come...✂️🕯 #collage #thrutopia #contemporaryart #jovischnell

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“I don’t work here for the fucking money,” said one longtime agency employee who works on air pollution. “I work here because I believe in it, and I want to serve the public.” What #EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump per @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

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“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump

More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA ...

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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Shirley Jaffe, pictured here in her Paris home and studio in 1995, said that she was “not interested in beauty but in visual pleasure”. www.tibordenagy.com/artists/shir...

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 04/02/2025

Word of the Day: GLISK (Shetlandic) - a glimpse of sun through the cloud; metaphorically, a ray of hope in dark times.

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"Ain't you got a right to the Tree of Life?" It was inspired by its title, a civil rights era folk ballad that makes the plea for everyone's equal promise to the tree of life. 💚 58 x 78 in, painted collage on canvas, 2025 #aintyougotarighttothetreeoflife #contemporarypainting #jovischnell

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

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Kristina Newhouse @askingwhynow.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A group of artists and arts professionals have put together a GoFundMe for artists who have lost everything in the fires. If you can give, please do! It also has a Google survey that you can share with affected artists to apply for support. artworldfirereliefla.start.page @artworldfirereliefla

A saying "Grief and Hope" on a black background

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hello All! I'm excited to teach again at Anderson Ranch Art Center in beautiful Snowmass Village, CO this summer, and registration opens today! Secure your spot now for my Experimental Painting/Collage Workshop! www.andersonranch.org/workshop. #andersonranchartscenter #ranchmade #artistcommunity

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Happy to have this little sprout on tour. 🌱📩 "Goddesses & Monsters: Toward a Feminist Iconography,” is a traveling exhibition now at The Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam, NY. Dec. 2 - Feb. 14 🎲🌼♾️ #goddessesandmonsters #anythinggrows #venus #creatrix #contemporaryart #jovischnell

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Studio portrait with "Anything Grows!" 🌱 A board game I designed to play in the studio and with the public in site specific places. The game is an entry point for co-creative collaboration. #anythinggrows #jovischnell #boardgames #muralgenerator

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Me in a trance at the Ikea guerilla residency last year. No, it is not an official residency (its genius), but a band of shenanigans ensues! 🔵🟡) #IKEAresidency #Burbank #laarts #artistresidency #jovischnell

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Room to bloom 🔮🌸 this bouquet was shaped by the letters (and the shape between the letters) of the word Strength. Right image: Tracing around the letters like an S-curve drafting tool. I was so fascinated by those as a kid.🏁 #paintingandcollage #strength #bouquetplay #jovischnell #contemporaryart

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Bouquet Play🌱🎾 Image: Heart Center ❤️🌼 This mixed collage painting series plays with the shapes of cut-out text to give form to the bouquet. Think: Tactile language models meet the art of floral arrangement. Hands at work press play.🕯 #bouquetplay #languagemodel #analog #jovischnell #contemporaryart

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"Monk Forest", another from my Bouquet Play🌱🎾 painting series, Image: Pot head vase with fleurs.🌼 This series plays with the shape of cut out text to give forms to the bouquet. Think: Tactile language models + the art of floral arrangement. #bouquetplay #languagemodel #jovischnell #contemporaryart

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"Blue Gazer" ○☆● 20 x 16 in. acrylic & collage on canvas, 2023 #bouquetplay #paintingandcollage #jovischnell #contemporaryart

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Jovi Schnell @jovischnell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Math Bass at Vielmetter Los Angeles

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