
Alice Schindel, artist
My work lives in the space between belief and awareness. I construct environments that feel ancient and mystical, as though they have always existed, yet reveal their artifice upon closer inspection. A shrine might promise revelation only to echo back the viewer’s own expectations. These tensions are intensional—acts of quiet mischief that question what we choose to sanctify.
Narrative threads run through the work like whispered prayers. They are fragments, nonlinear, and often unresolved. I am less interested in telling a story than in creating the conditions for one to be felt. Viewers enter as participants, completing the ritual simply by witnessing. The space asks: what do you bring with you, and what are you willing to believe, even now?
Irony becomes a form of devotion in itself. By holding reverence and doubt in the same gesture, I aim to honor the human impulse to seek meaning while acknowledging its inherent instability.These works are offerings—not to a fixed deity, but to the act of searching, of kneeling before something we do not fully understand.
In the end, each piece is a threshold: a constructed sacred space that invites pause, reflection, and perhaps a flicker of quiet recognition. I build shrines that are not meant to be worshipped at, though they quietly insist on it. Each piece emerges like a grotto—hollowed, intimate, and damp with memory—where narrative seeps through the walls rather than sitting neatly on the surface. I be am drawn to the language of devotion: relics, offerings, gestures of reverence. But here, these symbols are rearranged, made slightly off-key, ironically in their sincerity. The sacred is not rejected; it is re-performed,
Artist Statement
-
Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1983, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Masters of Fine Arts, Ceramics
-
Kansas City Art Institute, 1981 - Kansas City, Missouri
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics
-
University of Georgia, 1978 - Cortona, Italy
Studies Abroad Program - Merit Scholarship
Education
-
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences - Macon, Georgia
-
High Art Museum - Atlanta, Georgia
-
Ms. Lucinda Bunnen — Atlanta, Georgia
-
White, Rayis and Emmons, Attorneys, Atlanta, Georgia
-
Jester Inc. Film Studio, Oakland, CA
Collections
-
Swan House Gallery Swan Summer Invitational Show 2022
-
A Room of Their Own, 2019, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation
Watkinsville, Georgia
-
Common Objects, 2003, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia
-
Feats of Clay XIII, 2000
Lincoln Arts - Lincoln, California
-
The Landy Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, 1999
The Museum of Arts and Sciences - Macon, Georgia
-
Portraits: Self and Otherwise, 1999
Sandler Hudson Gallery - Atlanta, Georgia
-
People and Passions, 1990
Sandler Hudson Gallery - Atlanta, Georgia
-
Georgia Clay, 1989
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences - Macon, Georgia
-
Alice Schindel: Works in Clay, 1988
Greenville County Museum of Arts - Greenville, South Carolina
-
Photographer as Sculptor-Sculptor as Photographer, Two-person
Traveling Exhibition made possible by an Award For the Arts.
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Chattahoochee Valley
Association - La Grange, Georgia, Tate Gallery, University of Georgia,
-
Alice Schindel, One Woman Show: Works in Clay,1985
Chattahoochee Valley Art Association - La Grange, Georgia