Gregory Schulte

medium: painting

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Bounty 2009 Painting	Burning down the House 2010 Painting	Stepping Out 2010 Painting
Midnight Escape 2010 Painting	Rising Hybrid Heart 2010 Painting	Rising Melon - Gourd 2010 Painting
Rising Rooster 2006 Painting	Circling Airships 2003 Painting	Incubator 2009 Painting
Nest 2009 Painting

Contact information
2211 Keyes Avenue
Madison, WI 53711
Email Address: gschulte@matcmadison.edu
Web site: gregoryschulte.us

Artist statement
Through the process of painting, I am searching for new ways of considering the familiar and ordinary, trying to respond to life’s encounters in a poetic way. The idiosyncrasies of my work are the result of an evolutionary development, with each work contributing to the next. New ideas fuse with previous discoveries, taking my work in unanticipated directions. The resulting imagery is often peculiar, with unusual subjects and environments that suggest provocative scenarios. However, I don’t want my work to be dismissed as mere fantasy. By creating a natural context, viewers will likely question and interpret my irrational imagery from a rational perspective. Ultimately, I am trying to create alternate realities, hoping my work will invite multiple interpretations, while remaining mysterious and enigmatic.

In paintings, subjects can transcend their identity as ordinary artifacts of daily life and become metaphors for human experience. My paintings often include figurative elements, but even the still life arrangements are emblematic of human presence. Deliberately staged subjects suggest whimsical metaphors and mysterious narratives. My work is certainly representational, but I avoid depicting subjects in a way that would simply reflect or document the observed world. There is often a heightened description of textures that intensifies each object’s physical qualities. My work presents subjects that bare some resemblance to our shared observable reality, but the final imagery is mostly invented and constructs a new surreality for consideration.

Biography
Education
M.F.A. Drawing/Painting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991.
B.F.A. Drawing/Painting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987.

Current Teaching Position
Director, College Transfer-Art, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, Wisc., 2003-present.
   
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Utah State University, 1991- 2003.

Major Awards
Individual Visual Artist Fellowship, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001.
Individual Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1996.
National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists (works on paper), Western States Arts Federation, 1994.
Individual Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1994.
Creative Researcher of the Year Award, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1994.

Gallery Representation
Artisan Gallery, Paoli, Wisconsin

Selected Collections
Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.
Eastern Oregon State College, La Grande, Oregon.
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah.
St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.