Gregory Schulte, Drifting, Oil on Panel, 14" x 10 1/2"

Gregory Schulte

In paintings, objects can transcend their existence as commonplace artifacts of daily life and become metaphors for human experience. This is the central theme of my work. Although my paintings often include figurative elements, even the still life arrangements are emblematic of human presence. Unusual combinations of subjects set in peculiar stage-like spaces create whimsical metaphors and mysterious narratives.

My work is certainly representational, but I avoid depicting subjects in a way that would simply reflect or merely document the observed world. My work presents subjects that are based on objective reality, but the final image is developed mostly through invention. Through the process of painting, I am searching for significance and meaning in the familiar and ordinary,trying to respond to life's encounters in a poetic way. The idiosyncrasics 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. Ultimately, I am trying to create alternate realities.I hope my work will invite multiple interpretations, while remaining mysterious and enigmatic.

Gregory Schulte

Education

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

Current Teaching Position

2003 - present Instructor/Lead Teacher College Transfer - Art, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI.

Teaching Experience

1991-2003 Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Utah State University.

One & Two Person Shows

2006 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
2003 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2003 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
2001 Utah Arts Council Fellowship Exhibition, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2001 Gregory Schulte: Paintings and Drawings, Godschalx Gallery, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.
1999 Gregory Schulte: Paintings and Drawings, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1998 Gregory Schulte: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI.
1996 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
1995 Gregory Schulte: Works on Paper, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1995 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon State College, La Grande, Oregon.
1994 Gregory Schulte: Drawings, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1993 Gregory Schulte & Christopher Terry: Recent Work, Myra Powell Gallery, Union Station, Ogden, Utah.
1992 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
1991 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, 7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
1989 Gregory Schulte: Recent Work, Colucci Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.

Selected Invitational Shows

2006 21 Works on Paper, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
2005 20/20 : Twenty Years Twenty Artists, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa Florida
2005 Madison Area Technical College Faculty Exhibition, Madison Area Technical College Library, Truax Campus, Madison , Wisconsin.
2004 Realist Arrangements, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
2004 Madison Area Technical College Faculty Exhibition, Madison Area Technical College Library, Truax Campus, Madison , Wisconsin.
2003 Function of Emotion, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002 Group Show, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2002 Big, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002 Where the Animals Are, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002 Alumni Exhibition, Colucci Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
2002 Olympic Show, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2001 USU Art Department Print Exchange Portfolio, Merrill Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2001 USU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University,
Logan, Utah.
2000 Group Exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2000 USU Faculty Exhibition, Myra Powell Gallery, Union Station, Ogden, Utah.
1999 Reality Check, Brigham City Museum, Brigham City, Utah.
1999 Cache Valley Artists, Alliance for the Varied Arts, Logan, Utah.
1998 USU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1996 USU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1995 Prints & Drawings, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Olsztyn, Poland.
1995 Four Utah Artists, Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, Utah.
1995 USU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1994 Pencil to Paper, One West Art Center, Fort Collins, Colorado.
1994 Landscape and Still Life, Comus Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
1994 Eighteenth Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.
1994 USU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1994 Sunshine Terrace Art Auction, The Bullen Center, Logan, Utah.
1993 ‟5 to 10” Exhibition, Alliance for the Varied Arts Gallery, The Bullen Center, Logan, Utah.
1993 USU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1992 Summer Work, Twain Tippetts Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1992 USU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1991 Windows, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.

Selected Juried Group Exhibitions

2006 Madison: People, Places, & Events, Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors, Overture Center Gallery, and Wisconsin Academy - Steenbock Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
2003 Nude in the Post-Modern, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
2003 New Works In Paint, Galleria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.
2002 Contemporary Realism, Galleria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.
2001 National Drawing 2001, Galleria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.
2000 6th Annual National Art Exhibition, University Gallery, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.
2000 Printmaking Competition 2000, Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, Utah.
1999 National Works on Paper, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas.
1999 Realism ‛99, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia.
1999 Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
1999 Galex 33, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois.
1997 Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana.
1997 40th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York.
1997 17th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1997 14th Annual Lewis-Clark Juried Art Exhibition, Center for Arts and History, Lewiston, Idaho.
1997 Pulp Friction, Galleria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.
1996 Realism ‛96, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia.
1996 Drawing from Perception, Creative Arts Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
1996 Great Plains National, Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas.
1996 2nd Annual National Art Exhibition, University Gallery, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.
1996 2nd National Juried Exhibition, The Faulty Beagle Gallery, Kunkletown, Pennsylvania.
1995 National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 84, New York, New York. Juried by Audrey Flack.
1995 71st Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah.
1995 Border to Border V Larson Biennial Drawing Competition, Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.
1995 National Small Painting Exhibition, New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1994 Drawing 1994, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
1994 37th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association
Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York.
1994 Realism ‛94, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia.
1994 Confluence: The 22nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Jeaneane B. Duncan-Edith McAshan Visual Arts Center, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas.
1994 PVAL 33rd National Art Exhibition, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, Colorado.
1993 Drawing 1993, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
1993 Black and White Competition, Eccles Community Arts Center, Ogden, Utah.
1993 Batavia Society of Artists’ Ninth National Exhibition, Richmond Memorial Library Gallery, Batavia, New York.
1993 Breckenridge Fine Arts Center Juried Competition, Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, Breckenridge, Texas.
1993 OAW 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Oklahoma Art Workshops Studio, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1993 5th Biennial Seven-State Juried Exhibition, Dinnerware Artists’ Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.
1993 NPVAG National Juried Art Show, West Nebraska Arts Center, Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
1993 69th Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah.
1993 35th North Dakota Print & Drawing Annual, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
1993 13th Annual July Fourth Exhibition, Franklin Square Gallery, Southport, North Carolina.
1993 24th Bradley National Print & Drawing Exhibition, Hartmann and Heuser Galleries, Bradley University,
Peoria, Illinois.
1993 Aesthetics ‛93, McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas
1993 16th Annual North Dakota National Juried Exhibition, Minot Art Gallery, Minot, North Dakota.
1992 35th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York.
1992 Second Annual North American Artists’ Summit, Webb Gallery, North Haven, Connecticut.
1992 American Realism Competition, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia.
1992 Statewide ‛92, Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, Utah.
1992 Drawn West, Third Drawing Biennial Exhibition, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah.
1992 Black and White Competition, Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, Utah.
1991 23rd Bradley National Print & Drawing Exhibition, Hartmann and Heuser Galleries, Peoria, Illinois.
1991 6th Annual Greater Midwest International, Central Missouri State University Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, Missouri. Juried by Harold Gregor.
1990 Galex 24, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois.
1989 Northern National Art Show, LRC Gallery, Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
1989 First Street Selects, First Street Gallery, New York, New York. Juried by Jack Beal.
1989 Galex 23, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois. Juried by William Struve.

Honors & Awards

2003 Juror’s Honorable Mention, Nude in the Post-Modern, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
2003 Juror’s Award, New Works In Paint, Galleria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.
2002 Creative Artist of the Year Award, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2001 Teacher of the year: Fine Arts, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2001 Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Grant, Mural Project, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2001 Curriculum Enhancement Grant, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2001 Individual Visual Artist Fellowship, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2001 Juror’s Award, National Drawing 2001, Galleria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.
1999 Purchase Award, Realism ‛99, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia.
1998 Honorary Fellowship, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
1997 Juror’s Award, 17th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1997 Juror’s Award, Pulp Friction, Galleria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.
1996 Individual Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1995 Purchase Award, Border to Border V Larson Biennial Drawing Competition, Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists in works on paper, Western States Arts Federation, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1994 Individual Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1994 Creative Artist of the Year Award, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1993 First Place, Breckenridge Fine Arts Center Juried Competition, Breckenridge Fine Arts Center,
Breckenridge, Texas.
1993 Faculty Research Grant, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1993 Merit Award, 13th Annual July Fourth Exhibition, Franklin Square Gallery, Southport, North Carolina.
1993 Merit Award, Aesthetics ‛93, McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas.
1993 Purchase Award, 24th Bradley National Print & Drawing Exhibition, Hartmann and Heuser Galleries, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.
1992 People’s Choice Award, 35th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N.Y.
1992 Second Place, Black and White Competition, Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, Utah.
1989 Best of Show, Northern National Art Show, LRC Gallery, Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
1989 Third Place, Galex 23, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois.

Gallery Affiliations

Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida.

Public 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.