CHARLOTTE SCHMID-MAYBACH
clsmphoto@gmail.com
I engage with landscape using an interdisciplinary approach combining photography and textile. I sew on my photographs with free-motion machine embroidery until the threads integrate with the photographs to create a new object.
Sewing allows me to get my hands into the photograph, and thread changes the photographs into something more dimensional and textural.
Thread is a transformational element in my work, and the finished pieces feel like fabric. The threads blur the line between what’s real in the photograph and what’s beyond the picture or imagined.
Charlotte Schmid-Maybach is a visual artist working with photography, textile and assemblage. Originally from San Francisco, she earned her BA from UC Berkeley in South Asian civilization and MA in Photojournalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her background as an archaeological photographer in Pakistan and fifteen years as a newspaper photojournalist have informed her artwork. Charlotte started studying with artist Tom Wudl in 2016 and made the transition to a full time studio practice. She received the Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photography award in 2021 and was an exhibitor in Klompching Gallery’s FRESH 2023. Charlotte is based in Los Angeles, and her work has been widely shown in galleries and museums. She is represented by Themes and Projects Gallery, San Francisco.
