Mackenzie Schimmoeller: Forgotten Touches
Fine Arts 2025 Thesis Exhibition
Artist Bio:
This is a biography of the artist covering career highlights, education, and a summary of their work to the present day." aria-disabled="true" role="textbox">Mackenzie Schimmoeller is a multimedia artist and a current student at Columbus College of Art & Design. In Spring 2025, she will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and minors in Art History and Art Therapy. Her practice consists of mixed media works with concentrations in sculpture, painting, and collage. Her artwork takes a particular interest in human relationships and our interactions with objects and the world around us. She is informed by and draws inspiration from her personal encounters as well as collective experiences. Mackenzie intends to continue to develop her art practice and further both her career and education by pursuing a graduate degree.
Artist Statement
My work focuses primarily on traces of the body once removed from a context and what it leaves behind. I delve into the subtle yet profound physical and emotional experiences and connections between intimacy and the body, not just in the context of human relationships but also in our interactions with objects and the world around us. Exploring the vestiges of human intervention on spaces and objects and how they relate to the understanding of the everyday as a conceptual basis for the work. My works are evidence of the body's labor and examine embodied negotiations of function, form, and materiality while encouraging viewers to reflect on the fluidity of their memories of their own labors. I draw inspiration from my personal encounters and collective experiences while attempting to highlight the multifaceted nature of human familiarity through distortion, repetition, and expressive mark-making. At times, my work delves into the personification of objects, attributing them with human-like affect and characteristics. Through my artwork, I engage with the labor and traumas endured and confront the memories, discomfort, and general ethos of human experience.
