Anika Schneider is a narrative figure painter who draws on lived experiences, memory, and personal family photography. In her work, she experiments with surface material and painting techniques to visually evoke loss, memory, altered realities, and liminal spaces. Her paintings explore personal narratives of family, while reflecting universal experiences. When she paints, she is seeking a greater understanding of herself through an analysis of her memories by physically weaving them together through paint. For her thesis project, she has analysed how family photography curates her memories and the resulting dissociation she feels between her childhood photographs and her narrative of self. She has visualised memory by employing blank areas of negative space, thin layers of paint that blur, and moments of highly realised details. Her paintings are both dream-like and otherworldly to reflect the intangibility of memory. Be sure to join us on Friday, May 17th from 6pm-9pm at the MFA Graduate Studios to enjoy Anika's thesis work, along with the other 2019 graduates! MFA Thesis Exhibition and Reception For more information: visit Anika Schneider online. Artist portrait by Grace Olson Categories All Student Profile Thesis