Samuel Schwindt
@wrongside-writer.bsky.social
🏳️🌈Word/object/surface-smith — Always searching for the maddest spectacles and the vampiest explosions.
The Wrong Side, Chicago, IL.
Www.samuelschwindt.xyz
The Wrong Side, Chicago, IL.
Www.samuelschwindt.xyz
A translucent raw hide leather, molded over an anatomical skull and spine.
April 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A translucent raw hide leather, molded over an anatomical skull and spine.
I’ve been scarring, scraping, and carving leather from, basically, my archival leather collection. Under the residency “Green Garnet Press,” at Christine Forni’s Mana Contemporary Studio. I have soaked, stained, roller-ed, and altered traditional printmaking techniques to make strange permutations.
April 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’ve been scarring, scraping, and carving leather from, basically, my archival leather collection. Under the residency “Green Garnet Press,” at Christine Forni’s Mana Contemporary Studio. I have soaked, stained, roller-ed, and altered traditional printmaking techniques to make strange permutations.
Also a recent, but leather included
April 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Also a recent, but leather included
The latest from my studio. Custom-made acrylic paint with precious pigments, vermiculite (sourced from a special effects store used for “explosion” scenes). Then, of course, neon light. 💥💥💥
April 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The latest from my studio. Custom-made acrylic paint with precious pigments, vermiculite (sourced from a special effects store used for “explosion” scenes). Then, of course, neon light. 💥💥💥
It’s a form of archiving lately in the studio — needing to preserve my leathers beyond a crate in the studio. So, I’ve been making prints of them.
March 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
It’s a form of archiving lately in the studio — needing to preserve my leathers beyond a crate in the studio. So, I’ve been making prints of them.
My most recent sculpture:
“The cartographic figure, as a mad spectacle”
40 in (h) x 63 in (w) x 14 in (d).
leather (sourced from Mexico City, Chicago, and Indianapolis), lavender light, and cross-stitch sutures
“The cartographic figure, as a mad spectacle”
40 in (h) x 63 in (w) x 14 in (d).
leather (sourced from Mexico City, Chicago, and Indianapolis), lavender light, and cross-stitch sutures
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My most recent sculpture:
“The cartographic figure, as a mad spectacle”
40 in (h) x 63 in (w) x 14 in (d).
leather (sourced from Mexico City, Chicago, and Indianapolis), lavender light, and cross-stitch sutures
“The cartographic figure, as a mad spectacle”
40 in (h) x 63 in (w) x 14 in (d).
leather (sourced from Mexico City, Chicago, and Indianapolis), lavender light, and cross-stitch sutures
I curated a show called “Material Messengers: Ephemeral Environments” at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin last summer, and it’s still on my mind. I sought out artists using brilliant material and craft gestures to construct political daggers, if you will, about issues facing Chicago and beyond.
February 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I curated a show called “Material Messengers: Ephemeral Environments” at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin last summer, and it’s still on my mind. I sought out artists using brilliant material and craft gestures to construct political daggers, if you will, about issues facing Chicago and beyond.
“In queer ecology, supposed hiccups in flora and fauna relationships, such as non-reproductive sex and gender non-conforming behavior, aren’t perverted glitches in the matrix. They are studied, monumentalized, and celebrated.” Check my latest review:
chicagoartistwriters.com/queer-ecolog...
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February 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“In queer ecology, supposed hiccups in flora and fauna relationships, such as non-reproductive sex and gender non-conforming behavior, aren’t perverted glitches in the matrix. They are studied, monumentalized, and celebrated.” Check my latest review:
chicagoartistwriters.com/queer-ecolog...
chicagoartistwriters.com/queer-ecolog...
A few more from Maia Contemporary as well, and some street art:
February 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A few more from Maia Contemporary as well, and some street art:
On the way home from CDMX. The art (although I wish I saw more) was incredibly revitalizing. Experimental materially and conceptually — and in that sense, just f*cking fearless. Color everywhere. Unrestrained. Every material imaginable. I got those art chills again, finally.
February 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
On the way home from CDMX. The art (although I wish I saw more) was incredibly revitalizing. Experimental materially and conceptually — and in that sense, just f*cking fearless. Color everywhere. Unrestrained. Every material imaginable. I got those art chills again, finally.
Cleaned up the studio today to see all the fresh work together. Smells like leather and paint in here.
February 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Cleaned up the studio today to see all the fresh work together. Smells like leather and paint in here.
New wall descriptions and layouts — especially with the contemporary art now on the first floor. Good and bad. The 4th floor was replaced with an immersive experience gallery of Dali, Van Gogh.., ?
February 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New wall descriptions and layouts — especially with the contemporary art now on the first floor. Good and bad. The 4th floor was replaced with an immersive experience gallery of Dali, Van Gogh.., ?
Visit to the Indianapolis Museum of Art — I’m not even sure how long it’s been. A lot has changed — a lot has not. In positive and negative ways, in the fuzzy in between.
February 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Visit to the Indianapolis Museum of Art — I’m not even sure how long it’s been. A lot has changed — a lot has not. In positive and negative ways, in the fuzzy in between.
Excited about this one night ticketed event I’m in— a wine tasting and curated meal, with artists based in Chicago on display and in conversation. Knowledge about wine feels very demure and mature so it’s time I join the club *lifts wine glass with one pinkie raised*
vinodivino.club
vinodivino.club
January 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Excited about this one night ticketed event I’m in— a wine tasting and curated meal, with artists based in Chicago on display and in conversation. Knowledge about wine feels very demure and mature so it’s time I join the club *lifts wine glass with one pinkie raised*
vinodivino.club
vinodivino.club
Got a candid there
January 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Got a candid there
Dropped off at Lightwriters neon, and this is one of two sculptures. Weathered leather, sweat droplets, neon, cable covers.
January 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Dropped off at Lightwriters neon, and this is one of two sculptures. Weathered leather, sweat droplets, neon, cable covers.
Saw some great work last night at Elmhurst Art Museum — called Sustenance and Land. In the beginning, you test soil samples — by lifting a bell jar and sniffing the interior, all collected soil samples. Then, into sneakily beautiful but grotesque paintings / sculptures. And then — the bagel.
January 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Saw some great work last night at Elmhurst Art Museum — called Sustenance and Land. In the beginning, you test soil samples — by lifting a bell jar and sniffing the interior, all collected soil samples. Then, into sneakily beautiful but grotesque paintings / sculptures. And then — the bagel.
This work is still up at @leatherarchives.bsky.social — a piece reflecting on the alien and and other as it fits into the negotiations of queer bodies in spaces of the night. It’s cocooned, protected, but still flamboyant and liberated. Translucent leather, neon, meat bags, cables, and harnesses.
January 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This work is still up at @leatherarchives.bsky.social — a piece reflecting on the alien and and other as it fits into the negotiations of queer bodies in spaces of the night. It’s cocooned, protected, but still flamboyant and liberated. Translucent leather, neon, meat bags, cables, and harnesses.
I’ve been studying up lately for this new body of work — where my artworks are speculative bodies or skins forged in the aftermath of apocalyptic cataclysm. These books have been a source for me to be a fictitious archeologist — pulling at the in between of art history, science, and anthropology.
January 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I’ve been studying up lately for this new body of work — where my artworks are speculative bodies or skins forged in the aftermath of apocalyptic cataclysm. These books have been a source for me to be a fictitious archeologist — pulling at the in between of art history, science, and anthropology.
Some of the latest from the studio — check out my portfolio at www.samuelschwindt.xyz
January 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Some of the latest from the studio — check out my portfolio at www.samuelschwindt.xyz