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Andrew Schoultz
Blown to Bits, 13 December 2014 - 24 January 2015
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Andrew Schoultz, Blown to Bits

Andrew Schoultz’s first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery transforms 7,000 square feet of gallery space with an installation of sculpture, paintings and works on paper that charts a new trajectory in his work.

 

Schoultz has built an international reputation for his monumental outdoor murals and high-impact, multi-dimensional installations constructed from a stylized, symbolic lexicon. His quirky vocabulary of motifs – armored battle horses, slave-powered war ships, parachutes, erupting volcanoes, trees with severed limbs, crumbling brick walls and the Masonic pyramid with its all-seeing eye – express themes that include cultural disintegration, environmental degradation, the waste of war, the oppression caused by greed and the dangers of governmental surveillance.

 

In this new body of work, Schoultz combines familiar symbols with various conventions of formalism he’s taken from art history to express his dystopian vision. Borders of concentric lines frame these works, representing containment and control while also referring to the margins of Persian miniature paintings and illuminated manuscripts or to modern geometric abstraction. But the frenetic accumulation of lines that make up Schoultz’s narrative imagery explode outward, demolishing the order of the rectilinear composition and shattering the tradition of the picture plane. The title of the show, Blown to Bits, alludes to the paradox of positive change – that destruction must precede the creation of something better.

 

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Schoultz became a professional skateboarder before moving to San Francisco in 1998. He initially immersed himself in the Mission School culture of graffiti and street art, then transitioned to exhibitions in museums and galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and internationally. This year, evicted from his studio in the Mission, he relocated to Los Angeles with his family. Recent outdoor murals have been painted in Miami, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. In 2013 Schoultz transformed the entire Monterey Art Museum with site-specific installations and an outdoor mural. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Palm Springs Art Museum and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation.

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Works
  • Black and white striped beast floats over copper etching of walled city. White lines and other copper etchings of cities also float over copper plate in a collage-like manner.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Royal Beast, 1740-2014
    acrylic and collage on antique copper plate etching
    14 5/8 x 22 in
    37.1 x 55.9 cm
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  • Outline of an American flag barely visible underneath a thick layer of gold-leaf. Three glops of gold paint stick out from flag.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Triple Bombed Flag, 2013
    acrylic, 23-karat gold leaf, stretched American flag on panel
    42 x 64 x 2 inches
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  • Two canvases stacked on top of each other, both with background of black and gray gradient concentric rectangles. Gold brick-patterned shape lies on top of background. At bottom corners of lower canvas, two figures kneeling on mats outstretch their arms toward gold shape.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Broken Pattern (Exposed Wall), 2014
    acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
    42 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches overall
    bottom panel 24 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches; top panel 18 x 14 inches
  • Two panels are arranged in a vertical manner. On the bottom, white and black gradient concentric rectangles interspersed with rainbow colored lines frame a black and red beast. On the top, a colorful set of concentric rectangles lies behind shards of black and white rectangles that fall onto the bottom canvas.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Falling Structure (Beast), 2014
    acrylic on canvas over panel (comprised of two panels)
    48 x 24 inches/121.9 x 61 cm
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  • On a slanted canvas, white and black lines form corners of concentric rectangles. The innermost corners are painted in red. A rainbow set of three lines traces the edges of the canvas.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Unbroken Pattern (Slant), 2014
    acrylic on canvas, over panel
    72 x 99 inches/182.9 x 251.5 cm
    (2 panels 72 x 47 1/2 each)
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  • Set against a yellow background, three dimensional shards of a vessel are painted in black and gray gradient on the front and neon orange on the sides.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Shattered Vessel (Orange), 2014
    acrylic on panel
    39 x 36 x 2 1/4 inches
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  • A slab painted in black and white concentric rectangles is broken into shards. The insides of the shards are painted in neon red. The shards are set against a two-tone orange background.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Shattered Slab, 2014
    acrylic on panel
    96 1/2 x 72 x 9 1/2 inches
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  • Set against a neon green background, shards of a world map are broken apart. The front of the shards depicts a world map painted in blue and green concentric rectangles with a black and gray border. The insides of the shards are painted in red.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Shattered Map (Broken Strategy), 2014
    acrylic on wood
    20 x 80 x 54 inches
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  • Collage of shapes and creatures in black and white along with shattered brick pattern and jumping red horse. Intertwined with collaged elements are rainbow colored concentric rectangles.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Explosion Inside, Falling Wall (Broken Order), 2014
    acrylic and collage on paper
    41 1/2 x 56 inches
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  • Set atop a pastel rainbow table with sharp points for legs, wood panels are broken into shards. The insides of the panels are painted in red, and the fronts of the panels are painted in shades of black and white rays radiating from the center that are surrounded by concentric rectangles.
    Andrew Schoultz
    Explosion, 2014
    acrylic on wood
    20 x 80 x 54 inches
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Press
  • Andrew Schoultz, "Beast in Babylon," 1740-2014, acrylic and collage on antique copper plate print, 19 1/2 x 24 inches

    Andrew Schoultz @ Hosfelt

    David M. Roth, SquareCylinder, January 14, 2015

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