VISUAL Art | April 1–15 | FREE

"Made in Albuquerque" Art Exhibit by Larry Schulte
Gallery Hours: April 12–14 (Fri–Sun), 3–5 PM. Additionally, this exhibit can be viewed during public FUSION events or by appointment. To schedule a visit, email FUSION.

Opening Reception: April 5, at 5–9 PM as part of The ABQ Artwalk!

The work in this exhibition was created in Albuquerque by artist, Larry Schulte. It consists mainly of two bodies of work. One is woven painted paper based on the Fibonacci Sequence. Schulte has been working in this medium for fifty years. The second consists of his serigraphic prints with collage elements and stitching. This newer medium has been developed by Schulte since arriving in Albuquerque.

ABOUT LARRY SCHULTE

Larry Schulte is a mixed media artist, who retired to Albuquerque in 2015 after more than thirty years living and creating in New York City.  He has a BS degree in mathematics, a BA degree in art, and a master’s degree in watercolor from the University of Nebraska-Kearney.  Additionally, he has a PhD from the University of Kansas in the philosophy of education, with an emphasis in early childhood, statistics, and art education.  He has served as an administrator and instructor at Parsons School of Design in NYC.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of both The Textile Study Group of New York and of Artgroup for Gay and Lesbian Artists in NYC.  He is currently a member of the Mixed Media Textile Artists of New Mexico. He is included in collections of the Museum of Nebraska Art, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and New-York Historical Society as well as numerous other public and private collections.

Larry Schulte was born and grew up on a farm in Nebraska. Nature and her cycles had a strong impact on him: planting, cultivating, harvesting; spring, summer, fall, winter. Those repetitions show up in the patterns in his work. He was a mathematics teacher for a few years, and mathematical structure shows up in his work. Particularly, he has worked for many years with the Fibonacci Sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …).  The numbers in this sequence are found in the structure of nature in everything that is spiral (pinecones, sea shells, etc.) His work is nature, in both abstract forms and mathematical structure. He creates patterns through repletion – his work is about creating order.