Monique Schubert - Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Monique Schubert

Monique Schubert has a BS in Painting from Skidmore College, and an MFA from UNC: Chapel Hill. Monique attended Skowhegan in 2000. Monique works in a variety of 2-D media: painting, drawing, printmaking and large-scale paper cut-outs. She has presented solo shows in Brooklyn, NY and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and participated in numerous group shows including Garveyism at RUSH Arts in 2008, Gentrification: The Pink Elephant Speaks at MoCADA, Fela: Life After Death at the Caribbean Cultural Center and Diasporic Institute, both in 2010. This year she has exhibited new paintings in a 2-person show at the Broadway Gallery, and mono-prints created during her Fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Blackburn 20/20 Gallery. Pattern and repetition are important elements in my work as they represent the habits of speech, thought and action that define daily life. The accumulation of drawn elements and “accidental” marks in my paintings and drawings create an abstract ground activated by organic elements such as figures, silhouettes or forms from nature. These figure/ground relationships reflect the interconnected and overlapping patterns created by the rhythms inherent in life.