Marty Schnapf is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and performance. Schnapf’s world evokes an inconstant sensual and psychological space of dream, desire, memory, and premonition. Schnapf grew up in a farmhouse in Newburgh, Indiana, and began his art making outdoors. In his paintings, figures overlap frequently, or a single figure assumes various irreconcilable positions. In addition, structurally dematerialized environments surround and penetrate these figures.
By dissolving and dislocating such compositional elements, Schnapf presents two sides of a singular moment: its pure depiction and its imagined state. Schnapf recent work is in painting and drawing (often charcoal), and his figures are often shown as both intertwined and solitary, and seem barely contained, pushing against the edges of each composition.