Drawn from Lola Schnabel's notebooks and Polaroids, these images possess a febrile and precocious imagination. Her drawings, layers of pencil and paint sketches over crumpled, stained iconic imagery, are tough, naive, and verging on the pathological, where her photographs are softer and dreamlike, featuring her family and friends through blurred light-saturated compositions and the ocasional overpainting.
I heard Lola Schnabel applied to Cooper Union nearly every year. One year a friend of mine was on the board and he received her application with a letter of recommendation from Vincent Gallo. Christ. Give me a break.
She never got accepted.
Her book is a pretty nice little art book with drawings, collages, and photographs. I like her work (she got a good education from her father, she doesn't need Cooper anyway), and I like the way the book is put together.