In Conversation: Lauren McKeaney of PickingMe & Sima Schloss
May 30, 2024
7:00 - 8:00 on Zoom
Come and join us on May 30th at 7pm for an engaging artist talk with participating artist, Sima Schloss and Lauren McKeaney, CEO of the PickingMe Foundation. The two women will come together for a meaningful conversation on Sima's current exhibit, On Empathy, and themes around mental health and wellness.
Artist talk will be virtual via Zoom.
Register via Eventbrite.
Picking Me Foundation NFP is the only donor-supported nonprofit dedicated to advocating Dermatillomania (Skin Picking Disorder) for sufferers, supporters, and educational communities alike, encouraging individuals to choose themselves over the mental illness that chose them by #PickingMe over Skin Picking.
About Sima I. Schloss
Sima I. Schloss (she/her) is a New York City native, artist and professor of art history. She developed her signature style of gestural figuration using mixed media and received her MFA in Painting at Lehman College. Her capstone exhibition debuted at Lehman College Art Gallery 2017 in the Bronx, which launched her professional art career into other solo and group exhibitions and art fairs across the US.
She says of her work: “As an abstract artist working with gestural lines and portraiture, I am more interested in the internal life of the subject rather than the external. My mixed media work focuses on figures, and then I add layers using assemblage/collage from inspiration found in the many visual journals I have created over 25 years.
The figures truly take on a life of their own as I build up the layers. The abstraction moves the portraits, which allows me to create imagined beings. Rather than representing realistic portraiture, I break down my own experiences as I go through the moments in each studio session.”