Kinsmen
Kinsmen (2016 ongoing) oil on canvas, linen, board, paper, or wood
The paintings in Kinsmen serve as portals to Schwartz’s portraits of her ancestors, created in collaboration with the spirits they evoke. This series is the most supernaturally charged within her body of work, with red portals that harbor a potent, commanding energy. Each painting feels like an opening—an invitation for ancestral presence to emerge, both seen and felt.
The energy within these works not only reflects the connection to her past but also seems to foretell the arrival of ancestral forces that followed the creation of the Kinsmen series. They are more than portraits; they are living spaces where the boundaries between the present and the ancestral blur, held together by the powerful resonance of what lingers beyond sight.
