Notes On The Projects

Glendale Community College, Public Art Invitational Project,

The work realized for the Glendale Community College, Milky Way Clock Tower project is based on a work from my Sight Line Series. This series uses old postcards and imagines a new impossible building integrated into the idealized landscape. They are meant to be both funny and thought-provoking, asking viewers to consider their built environments, alternative realities, or imagine their own intervention.
In the face of the stress of these past years I am proposing a work that is on its surface, humorous and calming. If people want to go deeper, the work introduces issues of environmentalism, futurism, our built environment, and housing inequities. In using a postcard image of a beautiful place, my hope is this backdrop will create a space that serves as an escape and be a place to recharge. At the top of the image, we placed a seagull high above the structure. This is a nod to the book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach. The self-motivation and actualization journey that the seagull embarked upon is not unlike the journey a student at your college experiences. The work will be on view at The Art Gallery Administration Building, Glendale, CA. from 2021-2026.

METRO STATION

Upcoming Metro Station Fairview Heights station solo project

“Schoenstadt references both iconic buildings (look for a shout-out to the Forum when the art is in place) and lesser-known structures in the area. The architecture love extends to the blue “snap lines,” which represent a place’s timeline as well as the phone lines, traffic markings, and, now, train tracks that bisect the area.” Commissioned by LACMTA (Metro)Commissioned by LACMTA (Metro)

Recent Press:

 Hyperallergic

 Los Angeles Magazine

LA LOUVER EXTERIOR WORK

Parallel Version Series: Los Angeles (with extended sightlines), 2013, Exterior wall drawing with snaplines and acrylic paint, 130 x 407.25 inches.

This series of work is based on unrealized architecture from Los Angeles. I’ve lived in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years and have seen lots where buildings are built, demolished and a new building goes up. Coming from Chicago where this doesn’t happen that often this idea of architectural impermanence became interesting. In a town where props and set design became an industry it seemed to me the relationship to architecture was more malleable. The exterior work uses ink snap-lines to extend the perspective lines/vanishing points of the pieces of architecture incorporated into the drawing. The shadow shapes in the work are derived from the silhouettes of the architecture used in the drawing referencing past history of place.

Kim Schoenstadt: Rogue Wave 2013 Short

Installation Magazine

LA TIMES

Argonaut

Panorama City Shape and Line

Collaboration with Mara Lonner, 2015-2018, Paint and pen on prepared wall with anti-graffiti coating, 12 x 43 feet. Photo: Ruben Diaz.

The inspirations for our public art project at the Mid-Valley Intergenerational Center are the community of Panorama City and it’s history, landscape and architecture.

Our goal is an artwork that compliments the building and enlivens the experience of its users. We strive to create work that is playful and engaging both intellectually and visually. Contracting agency: Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

LAX Airport Commission, CrissCross

Collaboration with Mara Lonner, 2009, Paint and pen on wall, 11 x 85 feet. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer 

Installation view at Los Angeles International Airport 2009-2010.

Inspired by the temporary human and spatial interactions continually taking place at Los Angeles International Airport, Crisscross depicts LAX as an environment that connects one place to another… and another... and another.

By incorporating visual cues from around the airport itself, this piece renders travel as most of us experience it: a hazy montage of landmarks and sightlines that nudge us along our individual paths. The work is not meant to be deciphered so much as felt and remembered in fragments—like those incongruous yet purposefully interlocking patches of landscape one sees from an airplane window. Contracting agency: Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, LAWA (Los Angeles World Airport) Art Program.

Stuck at the Airport

Marketwired

Forth magazine

Zeitgistusa

Airport Awesome

World Art Day Sprinkles / Americans For The Arts Cupcake Fundraiser

Had to throw this one in because … cupcakes and art! For World Art day in 2017, Americans For The Arts and Sprinkles commissioned four artists to design sugar drawings for topping the cupcakes. The drawing is of the fountain outside of the Hannah Barbara Superfriends Hall of Justice.

Chicago Tribune.