Aurel Schmidt

AUREL SCHMIDTAndy Warholfamously depicted a banana that peels back to revealfleshy pink fruit on the cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico, but New York-based artist Aurel Schmidt doesn't play it so subtle when it comes to making winking reference to the phallus—or pretty much anything else, for that matter. In one of her exquisitely rendered drawings, the banana peel encases an anatomically perfect penis. Schmidt's work—which also includes ceram­ics and mixed-media pieces employing every t...