Hear from David Kaiser, Hannah Dewhirst, and Ingrid A Schmidt about the ideas and processes informing their respective art practices, and their thoughts on the shared affinities among the works on view in DOPA MINE.
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Ingrid A Schmidt and Hannah Dewhirst are co-founders of SUBSTUDIO. With a background in architecture, interiors, contemporary art, and fabrication, they build immersive sensorial environments that relate to the body, landscape, and culture. Schmidt and Dewhirst firmly believe in dissolving traditional boundaries of practice, experimenting across a number disciplines and at many scales.
Their work has been exhibited across Europe and Asia, and their custom textiles and tufted rugs have activated retail spaces and festival stages, and have been used in immersive environments for clients including fashion brands Bottega Veneta and Burberry. They were recently commissioned to create a site-specific installation for 21c Museum and Hotel, Lexington, which is on view through 2025.
Both Schmidt and Dewhirst are Assistant Professors at the University of Kentucky College of Design, and received their M.Arch degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
David Kaiser holds an MFA and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago specializing in painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. He uses the term “Organic Ideation” to describe his approach to creating artworks. His artistic practice is grounded in painting and drawing. He often manipulates the natural behavior of paint and other materials to seek phenomena and concepts, which transcend the material itself.
His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington KY); 65Grand Gallery (Chicago, IL); Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, KY); Sullivan Gallery (Chicago, IL); Harold Washington College (Chicago, IL); Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin (Green Bay, WI); SPACES (Cleveland, OH); Site 9 (Chicago, IL); Beacon Street Gallery (Chicago, IL); Diverse Works (Houston, TX); Evanston Arts Center (Evanston, IL), among others.
Kaiser is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and a Studio Instructor at the University of Kentucky. He has taught at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, Robert Morris University, and Eastern Kentucky University.