Michael Covello + Elizabeth Schneider

Lives and works in Kutztown, PA

Artist statement

Michael Covello and Elizabeth Schneider have worked as a collaborative since 2016, developing their language in video, audio, and animation in tandem with advancing their painterly dialogue. They met as undergrads at Cornell University, studying printmaking and painting. Their experimental art-animations investigate humanity’s intricate relationship with nature by combining autobiographical and shared experiences, navigating the shifting boundaries between humanity and the natural world through text, sound, and image. Landscape is not a backdrop for human-centered stories. Instead, their work depicts clashing agendas, reciprocal traumas, and an uncertain terrain populated by magic and science, memory and dream.

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