Paula Schulze
medium: graphic art
wisconsin academy gallery artist
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 Grow 2004 Graphic art |
 Natural Order 2005 Graphic art |
 Quartrefoil 2009 Graphic art |
 Quartrefoil and Cross 2009 Graphic art |
 Star 2009 Graphic art |
 Star Drawing #3 2007 Graphic art |
 Star Drawing #4 2007 Graphic art |
 Star Drawing #7 2008 Graphic art |
 Pattern 2010 Installation art |
 Pattern - detail 2010 Installation art |
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Contact information
Artist resides in: Milwaukee, WI
Web site: www.paulaschulze.com
Artist statement
I am interested in order and formal language, including the language of ornament and pattern. I work in a reductive manner, drawing in charcoal or utilizing the intaglio printmaking technique of mezzotint. I have been inspired by pre- and early-Renaissance art, with its ornamental detail and its elegant use of geometry as a backdrop to a larger narrative or devotional setting, and by traditional Islamic principles of geometry and design. In all of my work, through isolation and examination, I investigate formal elements and their ways of ordering space. My recent experiments with large-scale temporary public art installations have challenged me with new media, scale and setting.
Biography
Paula Schulze is a Milwaukee-area artist who primarily works in drawing and the printmaking technique of mezzotint. She has a BA in anthropology and Ibero-American studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has participated in artist residencies at Anchor Graphics in Chicago; Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers; Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy; and Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain. She has also collaborated on temporary public art projects with the organization IN:SITE in Milwaukee.
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