Alex Schuchard: Available Works

ALEX SCHUCHARD

Available Works

ALEX SCHUCHARD

Biography

Born in St. Louis, Alex Schuchard earned his BFA from Washington University and then his MFA from the University of Delaware. His work has been exhibited in New York, where the artist lives and works.

In the Surroundings series of paintings, the artist seeks to explore the duality of abstraction and abstract art. Informed by landscape and the visible reality of the physical world, these works move away swiftly from that mode of representation, positioning themselves as transient moments (in the artist’s visual present or in his memories of such moments) and simultaneously as objective ideas about color, forms, and composition-that is, about painting itself. The paintings in this series share similarities in palette (muted), brushwork (loose), and the placement of forms on the pictorial space, but a closer look reveals great differences in tone and mood. The color blue, for example, whether cobalt, cerulean, or ultramarine, takes on individual characteristics in Schuchard’s expression on each canvas and becomes watery, dense, fragmented, opaque or translucent, depending on the artist’s filter, or way of seeing. Those paintings that are predominantly green, and even the two startlingly black, darker works shimmer in their differences from each other and from the others, though all are ostensibly treating the same subject in a similar manner. The subject is neither trees nor water, nor sky; nor is it landscape. Rather, it is the artist’s unique impression of his surroundings, internal and external merged, transformed into almost lyrical abstractions.