Max Hooper Schneider's Post-Human Sculptures Blur Life and Decay
Max Hooper Schneider's sculptures blend biological specimens with industrial elements, imagining a future beyond humanity. In 2014, he created Morphogenesis System: Median Section of Female Pelvis and Fire-Bellied Newt, which involved live newts placed in a model cervix within a glass tank. At Gallery 169 in Santa Monica Canyon, he showcased Living Epoxy: Disarticulation of Delphinapterus leucas in 2013, featuring a luminescent blue beluga whale skeleton. His 2015 exhibition, Accidental Menagerie, at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in Los Angeles, included a monolithic sculpture that encased bones, a deceased snake, barbed wire, and fish tails in resin. Schneider, who studied landscape architecture at Harvard, has degrees in urban design and biology, and participated in the Mongolia Land Art Biennial in 2012 and 2014. Jonathan Griffin highlighted him in ArtReview's Future Greats in January & February 2016.
Key facts
- Max Hooper Schneider creates sculptures combining living organisms and dead specimens
- His work Morphogenesis System: Median Section of Female Pelvis and Fire-Bellied Newt (2014) featured live newts in a cervical model
- Living Epoxy: Disarticulation of Delphinapterus leucas (2013) displayed a phosphorescent beluga whale skeleton
- Schneider applied homemade phosphorescent pigment to rocks in the Gobi Desert
- Accidental Menagerie exhibition occurred in 2015 at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in Los Angeles
- Blackwater Jacuzzi (2015) contained black-dyed water with possible carp
- He studied landscape architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Schneider participated in both 2012 and 2014 Mongolia Land Art Biennial
Entities
Artists
- Max Hooper Schneider
- Jonathan Griffin
Institutions
- Kayne Griffin Corcoran
- Gallery 169
- Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Mongolia Land Art Biennial
- ArtReview
Locations
- Los Angeles
- Santa Monica Canyon
- Gobi Desert
- Mongolia