Threshold Gallery

On view: July 5 - September 30, 2024

John Schulz

The Redhead and Formula X

Color woodcut

John Schulz uses collage, cut-ups, and the resultant unanticipated juxtapositions In his studio practice to open the visual potential of commonplace printed matter. This recent work in woodcut explores mid-century public domain romance, crime, and science fiction comics, fragmenting their graphic elements to liberate them from their original narratives and layering and recombining them to build new forms, often revealing an underlying lyric darkness.

Schulz is currently based in Saint Paul, MN. Originally from Superior, WI, John returned to the Midwest after teaching Printmaking and Drawing for twenty-five years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Appalachian State University, Boone NC; Penland School of Craft, NC; and the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee BE. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; the Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts – Artists’ Books; and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, BE.