JOIN US this Saturday from 4-6pm for the opening reception of John Schulz: Woodcuts!

An obsessive collector of printed matter and other visual detritus, Schulz uses chance operations, systems, and cut-ups to create new, unexpected graphical narratives. At once strangely beautiful and vaguely threatening, fragments of image and text are jerked out of context and thrust together as in “the chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.”– Comte de Lautréamont, The Songs of Maldoror, Canto VI, Verse 3, (1869). Schulz says, “In the end, I see my work as a dialogue with some of the lower common denominators of visual culture. I want to make something beautiful out of the cast-off and insignificant, lifting the veil of banality covering the generic and commonplace. I want my work to have a presence like furniture to which other meanings might be attached, like the rubber gloves and artichokes in the paintings of deChirico. A critic once spoke of my work as “essentially leaden and humorless.” I found that to be a rather sensitive observation and took it as a compliment.”