Aurel Schmidt: Man Eater

About this book

With colored pencils and graphite the rising self-taught artist Aurel Schmidt born in Kaloomps Canada in 1982 renders terrifying Arcimboldo-esque babes with a highly charged punk sensibility alongside forests of maggots busts of tangled snakes faces and figures made of spiders cockroaches cum and discarded hamburger. Man Eater the first comprehensive volume devoted to Schmidts work includes more than 60 drawings from the last five years amplified by a generous selection of details that allow the reader to fully experience the painstaking precision of the artists hand. Featuring works from her recent solo exhibitions at Deitch Projects in New York and Peres Projects in Los Angeles as well as drawings shown at the Deste Museum in Athens Greece this volume includes images from Schmidts Burnouts series of cigarette-burned faces and Party Monster series depicting New York City nightlife gone wild. Essay by curator Kathy Grayson.