Andrew Schoultz is an American artist known for his large-scale paintings, murals, and installations that often address political and social issues. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1978 and received his BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000.
Schoultz began his career as an artist in the early 2000s, and his work has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums around the world. He has had solo exhibitions at venues such as the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to his work as a painter, Schoultz has also created a number of public murals, including a large-scale installation at the San Francisco International Airport.
Schoultz's work is known for its bold, colorful style and its often-provocative subject matter. His paintings often incorporate elements of history, myth, and folklore, and they often address issues of power, control, and resistance. Schoultz's work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
A continued penchant for the mythological, a use of symbols and signs prevails in San Francisco-based artist Andrew Schoultz’s recent works on paper. The restless mélange of images—from medieval references and apocryphal symbolism to folk sensibilities and graffiti applications—collide into the artist’s unique narratives.
In his works on paper produced at Aurobora, Schoultz used the intaglio press to print and counter proof images. Some of these monotypes have a singular theme referencing the compound eye while others have been cut and reassembled to form large mixed-media compositions which have been extensively hand worked by the artist. Crumbling towers, rider-less horses, de-forested landscapes, and tornado-spawning hands form a cohesive narrative that pulls the viewer into a twilight-zone vortex where a chaotic world is on the brink of collapse. The monotypes created while at Aurobora are now available exclusively at Hemmings Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho,
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, CA; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
