Green, yellow, and blue sculpture of bubble wrap sheet

Bubble

A painting of a white heart on a red background, with barbed wire across the front

Love in the Broken Place

A drawing of two multi-colored mandalas that converge in the middle, where the letters E V O L V E embellish their meeting place.

Love, in other words

In the center of the canvas board text is written "I Love U My Lil Lady Grams Nay Miss's U... I Do..." The O in Love is shaped like a heart. The background is lightly shaded pink with bubble hearts floating. The text is bordered with flowers on a vine. The canvas board is bordered along the top and bottom with rhinestone ribbon.

I Love U My Lil Lady

Galaxy

Scales of the Koi fish are cut out the fins and head is etched in relief. There are separate color sequences projected in the scales and on each separate section of the fishshape and outside

HoKoiSai

A portrait of a young woman pulling on her hair and thus tearing herself apart, surrounded by fingerprints against a gray background. 

unrecognizable

Paper quilling of a multi-colored hummingbird, orange, burgundy, greens, and black, hovering over a yellow petaled flower and bud with green stems, framed in black with fine burgundy line centered in the black. 

Hummingbird Greets the Yellow Flower

An abstract painting using a limited palette of lime green, cadmium orange, warm and cool blues and white. And a touch of black for interest. There is lots of mark making, scratching in the paint, stamping and glazing over to create layers and depth. It was a blast to paint!

Liberating Results

Look into a living room scene. Man lies dead on couch being eaten by cats. In background a woman has fallen dow. The stairs and lies on floor. 

Dying to Go Out

"Encountering the Others examines how Oligarchs utilize energy to govern control over indigenous cultures. With this growth of civilization comes unexpected behaviors and new challenges such as environmental issues, tolerance and acceptance, as well as the intrusion of strangers instilling their beliefs which they perceive to be better than others." 

Encountering the Others

Roadside scene on a lovely country road in northern MN as the autumn palette begins to work its magic.

Ode to the Road Series #4

Tiny green paper cutouts on heads of pins, to form a mass gathering of 4 leaf clovers

A Field of 4Leaf Clovers

A mixed media hand rendering (acrylic paint, charcoal, crayon, pencil) on wood panel, inspired by the north central Minnesota landscape in summer. Splashy and deft. 

Schoolcraft Bitten

An illustration of three woman in a forest huddled around a ritual knife. It is starting to snow. One of the women is looking at the viewer as if they are witnessing something they should not. The woman have long wild hair and the knife is dark with something. The art style is sketchy and painterly, an eerie, hazy red-black and yellow-green. 

Ladies of the Wood

A photo of a model, tightly cropped chin to waist, wearing a 5-layer statement necklace over a white shirt; the layers are comprised (from top to bottom) of a large-link chain, another large link chain with a large diamond pendant, a third layer that has eleven (11) WWJD pendants with pictures of Jesus, a fourth gold chain layer, and a fifth/final layer, reminiscent of a pearl rosemary.

WWJPDIJPWD - “What Could Jesus’s Piece Do If Jesus’s Peace Would Do?” (PROJEKT #5)

A collage made from photos of children's arms, from many different cultures, reaching for a colorful banner of pink, blue, yellow, white and gold leaf triangles.  The triangles are all connected with a multicolor metallic thread and held in the air, on a light blue background, by two birds.  At the bottom of the banner are the letters H O P E in gold leaf which the children's hands are almost able to reach.

Rise Up

Prince done with Minnesota crop seeds painted in vivid shades of purple. Originally submitted to the MN State Fair Crop Art Competition. Based on a cartoon image of Prince by Japanese artist, Kazuo Takeda. Seeds used include Alsike clover • Barley • Buckwheat • Canola • Flax and Golden Flax • Millet • Oat • Onion • Rye • Safflower • Trefoil • Sunflower • Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover • Wheat • Wild Rice

Prince, based on Kazuo Takeda’s Prince.

A mosaic of a cocktail, filled with lemons and oranges, in a transparent glass made from opaque Italian glass (Smalti) created in the traditional mosaic style. 

Gin & Tonic

A collage of Donald Trump's head on a winged warrior. 

Delusion

Sisters smile and hold each other close as the snow started coming down more heavily on a cold winter’s night. 

Snow Sisters

A female cardinal contrasted against redacted book pages

in the morning, early

This is a black-and-white photocopy of an image of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, with text written in the margins.

Explanation

A collage including magazine clippings, old photographs, and transfer pens exploring ideas of change and disruption.

Floating

Early spring inspired weaving. Neutral tones with a few highlights of yellow and red representing blooming trees. Some leaves and tree branches woven into the piece.

Homeschool 1

A mixed media collage, horizontal fields of red, sepia, metallic gold, and green are overlayed with a zig-zag pattern of embroidery and beads, Mother Earth's abstract green eye gazes out from the upper left quadrant.

Cradle The Earth No. 8

A 3 dimensional abstract painting with vinyl brush stroke paint marks and thread sewn into piece. Colors are pastels and neons.

Blue Skies

The Chinese text: End of WWII, Sept 9, 1945 Hong Kong,  which was occupied by Japan for four years. Solo picture was artist who was nourished with eggs from chickens raised on rooftops while many had very restricted diet.  Sausages were stuffed with horse or dog meat. 

We Survived 1945 (Hong Kong)

A painting of an abstracted purple figure leaning diagonally across the panel. On the left some of the wood panel shows through under pastel pink and blue. On the right there is a purple, iridescent mark, interrupted by florescent yellow palm leaves.

Another Scene

An abstract rendering of a waterfall, cauldren and river on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minneasota.

Thermal Pool

2 abstract wood ducks (male & female) on a log. Image is digitally-built Photoshop collage made up with combination of hand-painted elements, corporate logos & rhinestones. It is printed on blotter paper & the sky is differently sized coins that fit into one grid tab of the blotter paper to produce a psychedelic effect. There is a cartoon speech bubble as well with the phrase "Ugh, stop saying 'back door shrimp."

Bubble, 2020

Darren Schneibel