Blog: Awful aquariums, a dollhouse of horrors: One artist’s disturbing worlds, in miniature

Schneider revels in extremity, but “Mommy & Me,” a torched haunted house, tips into the overwrought. A hoarder’s haven, it’s stuffed with the paraphernalia of violence and so much more. The attic, encrusted with dark, spiny ooze, is a horror story all its own, a house of despair. The heavy-handedness detracts little from the cumulative power of the show, titled “Tryouts for the Human Race.”