CHARLOTTE A. SCHATZ

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

 

Charlotte Schatz was born and raised in Philadelphia. She attended the Tyler School of Art where she majored in Sculpture. Jim Sterrit was her mentor and Italo Scanga was her muse. SchatzÕs abstract geometric sculptures of plastics, metals, mirrors and lights was widely exhibited and garnered many awards for the next 15 years.

 

In 1973, she was hired to teach Sculpture and Design at Bucks County Community College, retiring in 2003 as Professor Emeritus. 

She returned to painting in the 1980Õs and has continued her work to the present. Always a socially conscious person, her work reflects her ideology. The later work is inspired by the geometry and architecture of the buildings and detritus of the Industrial Era.  Since many of these structures no longer exist, there is a historic aspect to the work that has been described by Robin Rice as Ò....resurrected relics of power which have a new life in memoryÓ. Form and color have been primary concerns in all her work.  Always a colorist, her "Urban Ruins Transformed" represent her interest in the palette of the Fauves, the early work of the Precisionists that depicted mechanical and industrial subject matter and her continuing  interest in the work of Jasper Johns.

 

She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004 a Leeway Foundation Grant for Established Arists in 2000. She has exhibited widely on the East Coast in Solo and Group shows. Her work is represented in private and public collections throughout the United States, in France and Venezuela. She maintains a studio in the Kensington section of Philadelphia where she has been working on a large commission for a factory in New Jersey.

 

RESUME

 

EDUCATION

                1983        Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY - Summer Graduate Studies

                1978-79   Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia PA - Graduate Studies

                1969        Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, B.F.A. Cum Laude

EMPLOYMENT

                1973 - 1998   Professor, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

                2003 . 2005  Professor Emeritus, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

HONORS/AWARDS

                2004                Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant

                           Senior Artist Initiative, featured artist, James A. Michener Art Museum,

                2000                Leeway Foundation Established Artist Grant

                1998                Awarded ÒPennsylvania TreasureÓ by Philadelphia Mayor Rendell

                1992                Franklin T. McClintock Award

                                           Lorraine and Ben Alexander Award - Alice Yang

                1991                Award for Excellence - Hitoshi Nakazato

                1989                Abington Art Center - Janet Kardon

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

                  2006                SPRING 2006,Artworks, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Commerce Square,

                                           Philadelphia PA

                2004                Urban Horizons, Toad Hall Gallery, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton NJ

                2001                Recent Work, Pennswood Village Gallery, Newtown PA

                2000                Urban Ruins, Jasuta, Philadelphia PA

                1999                Conant Hall Gallery, Educational Testing Service, Princeton NJ

                1993                Esther Klein Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia PA

                1986                The Disasters of War, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

                1977                Rider College, Lawrenceville NJ

                1976                Stockton College, Atlantic City NJ

                1975                Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

                1975                Old York Road Art Guild, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown PA

1970                         Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

                  2006                POST, Philadelphia Open Studios Tour, East of Broad Street, Philadelphia PA

2005                         THE CONTEMPORARY EYE, James A. Michener Art Museum, New Hope PA

THIRD BIENNIAL, SENIOR ARTISTS INITIATIVE, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia PA

NORTH OF THE BORDER, 4, ART IN NORTHERN LIBERTIES, Philadelphia PA

POST, Philadelphia Open Studios Tour, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia PA

CITYSCAPES, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia PA

                2004                POST, Philadelphia Open Studios Tour, Philadelphia PA

                                           THE REAL WORLD, MTV, Philadelphia PA

                                           NORTH OF THE BORDER 3, ART IN NORTHERN LIBERTIES, Philadelphia PA

                2003                ASSEMBLAGE/2003, West Chester University, West Chester PA

                                           Orbit Gallery, Philadelphia PA

                                           North of the Border2, Art in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia PA

                                           61st Annual Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Centeer, Cheltenham PA        

140th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia PA

                2002                Philadelphia Open Studios Tour, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia PA

         REFLECT/RESPOND, Krasdale Gallery, NYC and ArtForms, Manyunk,,

         Philadelphia PA

                2001                Urban Views, 314 Open Studio, Philadelphia PA

                2000                Pictura Lucida, Leeway Award Winners, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia  

                1999                Gritty City: The Eloquence of Decay, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia PA

                                           Painting Annual, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham PA

                                           Uncommon Landscapes, Rowan University, Glassboro NJ

Pennsylvania Treasures 1, University City Science Center, Philadelphia

The Legacy Preserved, 10 Years of Collecting, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

1998                         Tres Emeriti, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

                                           Painting Annual, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA

                                           National Drawing '98, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

                1997                The Many Faces of Faith, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia PA

                                           Head to Toe, ArtForms, Philadelphia PA

1999                         Contemporary Urban Ruins, Open Studio, Assouline & Ting, Philadelphia PA

                  1995                Faculty Exhibit, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

                1994            26th Biennial Exhibition, Works On or Of Paper, Univ. of Delaware, Newark DE

                1993                Art of the State: Pennsylvania '93, State Museum, Harrisburg PA

                                           Art in City Hall, Philadelphia PA

                1992                Galerie Nadeau, Philadelphia PA

                                           Art at the Armory, Philadelphia PA

                                             Annual Awards Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham

                           63rd Annual Fall Exhibition, Phillips Mill Community AssÕn., New Hope   PA

                1991                Works on Paper, Abington Art Center, Abington PA - PRIZE

                1990                Open Studio, Atelier Rachita, Paris, France

                                           Open Studio, Crees Building, Corvallis, OR

                1989                Works on Paper, Beaver College, Glenside PA

                                           Delaware Art Museum Annual, Wilmington DE

                                           New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts Annual , Summit NJ

                                           Works on Paper, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA - PRIZE

                1987                Works on Paper, Tyler Alumni Exhibition, Temple University, Philadelphia PA        

                                           American (Bad) Dream, Lawrence Gallery,  Rosemont College, Rosemont PA

                1985                Against the Grain, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

                1984                Artists Call, Marion Locks East, Philadelphia PA

                1983                Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY

                1982                S300, Sculpture Tricentennial, Philadelphia Art Alliance

                                           Point Counter Point, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh PA

                1981                Sculpture Exhibition, Glassboro State College, Glassboro NJ

                1977                Portraits, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton NJ

                1976                Sculpture Garden, Temple Music Festival, Ambler PA

                                           Bicentennial Sculpture Exhibit, Philadelphia Art Alliance

                1975                Sculpture Garden, Temple Music Festival, Ambler PA

                1974                Focus on Women in Art, Temple University, Philadelphia  PA

                1973                New  Faculty Exhibition, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

                                           A Child's Garden of Art, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Museum of Art

         11th Regional Sculpture Exhibition, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum - PRIZE

                                           Art from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ

                1972                Tyler Profile '72, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum

                                           Sculpture to Touch, Philadelphia Museum of Art

                                           10th Annual, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA

                                           Art from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ

                1971                Pennsylvania '71, Wm. Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg PA

                                           Regional Sculpture Exhibition, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum

                1970                Regional Sculpture Exhibition, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum - PRIZE

                                    Art from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ

                1969                Regional Sculpture Exhibition, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum

           Art from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ

                1968                Young Philadelphians, Kenmore Gallery, Philadelphia PA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

                                           James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

                                           University City Science Center, Philadelphia PA

                                           Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA

                                           ADM Group Inc., Philadelphia PA

                                           Quaker Chemical Company, Norristown PA

                                           TAH Industries, Robbinsville NJ

 

NUMEROUS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE AND VENEZUELA

 

PUBLICATIONS:

                  2004                ÒCharlotte Schatz & Her Urban Renewal, Maggie Boccella, ARTMATTERS

                2000                ÒNew Directions and some new artistsÓ, Edward Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer

                                           ÒShe brings ruins to lifeÓ, Anne R. Fabbri, Philadelphia Daily News           

                                           ÒWinnersÓ, Leeway Awards, Robin Rice, Philadelphia City Paper

                                           AIA convention focuses on ÔLivable CommunitiesÕ. Diane Fiske, ARTMATTERS

                1999                Art Matters

                1998                ÒTrios love...on dispaly at BCCCÓ, Steve Wartenberg, Courier Times

                                           ÒPotent TrioÓ, Victoria Donohue, Philadelphia Inquirer

                1987                ÒWith art, women challenge old notionsÓ, Edward Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer

                                           Charlotte A. Schatz ÒThe Disasters of WarÓ, Judith Heep, ARTMATTERS

1983                         Charlotte A. Schatz: Homage to the DisappearedÓ, Robin Rice,

Philadelphia City Paper

1984                         ÒWorks by Charlotte A. Schatz depict disasters of warÓ,

Daily Intelligencer, Doylestown

GUEST LECTURES

                                             2005 Ð SAI, Woodmere Art Museum. Chestnut Hill PA

                                          2003 - Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA                          

                                           1999 - Rowan University, Glassboro NJ

                                           1998 - T.A.R.P., Temple University, Philadelphia PA                 

                                           1997 - James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown PA                                                   

                                           1987 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA

                                           1987 - Rosemont College, Rosemont PA                              

                                           1986 - Delaware WomenÕs Conference, Media PA

                                           1986 - WomenÕs Conference, Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA  

                                           1982 - Wellesley College, Wellesley MA