Cornelia Schulz – Recent 2006 / Cornelia Schulz – Recent 2006

The Patricia Sweetow Gallery is pleased to welcome Bay Area artists Jeanne C. Finley & John Muse in their third exhibition at PSG. We are also pleased to welcome Bay Area artist Cornelia Schulz in her fourth exhibition at PSG. Exhibition dates are 5 January – 11 February, 2006. The artists’ reception is January 5, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Artist, Educator, and Mentor, Cornelia Schulz will exhibit new paintings in her fourth exhibition at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery. Intimate in scale, Schulz’s paintings promise to be a continued exploration of shaped interlocking canvases. The lyrical abstractions of form and color utilize various-shaped supports, fit together like an elaborate puzzle of Schulz’s own making. In describing the paintings, Kenneth Baker, Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, suggests that Schulz’s interactions of oil and alkyd look like “lucky accidents,” but upon closer inspection the viewer discerns the use of accidental form succumbing to an acute visual unity. “While some of their junctures of physical form and painted shape seem clearly to have been planned, others look like lucky accidents, especially where puddled paint and the interplay of oil and alkyd media have yielded what look like slow-motion accidents.” This series of small paintings proves to be the most seductive and interesting of her explorations of surface and structure.

Cornelia Schulz began teaching at UC Davis in 1975, where twice she chaired the Art Department. In her last two years prior to retirement, Schulz organized and implemented the Arts Bridge Program at UC Davis.