Testing a display for exhibit on a found painting being discarded
Therese Schoch is a visual artist working with found and repurposed materials. Assemblages are sculptural using bits of corroded metals, worn glass, plastic bits, and old papers. This new series features fabrics and employs embroideries and stitches making the pieces softer and inviting reflection on discarded materials, what we find beautiful, and traditions of needlework , nearly always breaking some rules with intent.
Reresentative samples of works.
Shrine Series 2025
Earlier works have been landscapes
Using found an discarded bits of life in a city materials are combined to invite meditation on what we throw away and what is kept. The process of decomposing allows us to consider how natural elements are always moving to return to their original states — iron rusts into ferrous oxide, copper patina, while beautiful is the metal’s process of returning to the soil, wood decomposes showing us its vascular system as it breaks down to its mineral beginnings — or how man-made bits like plastics and polymers just linger and sometimes change colors or shapes.
Is A Gift
Pilfered items from other artists’ waste bins wrapped up and tied with strings.
Shouting At the Chorus 