TERN is elated to announce its fall exhibition, Me ‘n’ Mines, showcasing new works by Bahamian artists Heino Schmid and Steven Schmid. The brothers, nearly a generation apart, have never exhibited together before. They are both known for their innovative material and figurative investigations in their respective two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices while exploring themes of family, home, belonging and Bahamianness.
On view now through 25th October 2025, Me ‘n’ Mines is the result of both artists setting out to determine what a new world could look like if they and their beloveds were able to show up flawed, yet ready to work.
Exhibition Text: Me ‘n’ Mines written by Kevanté A.C. Cash
Heino Schmid
Heino Schmid is a Bahamian multi-media artist working in a variety of disciplines that drive his creative process of visual deconstruction and cultural analysis. Working primarily in iterations of charcoal on paper, Schmid’s gestural drawings focus on the nuances of posture, relation, and reduction. As an observer, Schmid pulls from remembered gestures as a primary visual vocabulary. The figures in the work are a compilation of moments, interactions, and idiosyncrasies from those in his immediate space creating a sense of familiarity between the subject and the viewer. Schmid’s three-dimensional and installation works are composed of objects from the landscape and detritus. Once again pulling from his immediate space, the objects that appear and reappear throughout his oeuvre become a visual language that shifts in translation.
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Steven Schmid
Steven Schmid is a Bahamian interdisciplinary artist interested in becoming a more open-hearted and generous storyteller. His work explores themes of masculinity and otherness through painting, collage and assemblage. Adopting Hip-Hop production and sampling as a visual practice, Schmid’s current research explores how laughter, humour and play can imagine more expansive representations of Bahamian masculinity and individualism. Using the figure as a central point of exploration, he constructs an aesthetic that surveys how personal histories, stories, and ideologies can physically exist within a body, while also imagining how a body filled with contradictions can become a site for decolonial representation.
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