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Against the backdrop of Vancouver's Long Beach, with its craggy shoreline, endless horizon and unstoppable ocean rhythm, Schmidt plays his gasoline generator fueled rendition of Stairway to Heaven. Marshall amps release the song that has become part of the rock culture landscape and the tune that defined the early seventies and became a cliché of teen culture's ad hoc rites of passage, is here offered up in homage to both the natural beauty of the Pacific Rim and the memory of youthful intensity.

Kevin Schmidt is an artist who is based in Vancouver, where he grew up. He completed a BFA at Emily Carr in 1997 and had his first solo show at Access Gallery in 2003. He has exhibited his work at Mercer Union (Toronto), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Zierhersmith (New York), Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh) and at numerous galleries in Vancouver including the Belkin Art Gallery, Artspeak and Presentation House. Schmidt is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

Kevin Schmidt online
www.artspeak.ca/publications/item_detail.html?item_id=59