Kj Schumacher

KJ Schumacher (b.1978) was born in Nashville, where he currently lives and works. He studied Art History, Fine Arts and Painting at Parsons School of Design in Paris and the George Washington University in Washington D.C., where earned the Presidential Arts Scholarship and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts. Schumacher's work is included in prominent collections throughout the Southeast and has been exhibited in solo and groups shows in Nashville, Los Angeles, London and New York. He is a teacher of Fine Art at the prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville.

This work is about mark making and the studio process. Moreover, it is about the marks left over as a result of the studio process, the remnants, and their intrinsic significance. As I celebrate the smudge, scrape, wipe, roll, drip, spill, imprint, and stain as formal elements, I combine these marks with intention, while also allowing chance encounters within the process of creation. Fortuitous juxtaposition and willful experimentation set up a duality between intention and accident. That duality is an enduring focus of these works. Carefully prepared grounds and chalk lines fashioned after ruled paper organize a structured matrix on which the studio remnants as...

M.F.A., The TransArt Institute, Creative Practice, 2016

B.A., The George Washington University, Fine Arts, Minors Art History, English, 1997-2001

Parsons School of Design, Parsons Paris, non-degree student 1999

The American University of Paris, non-degree student 1999

Solo Exhibitions
2014
Raw Material, Haus Rotations, Nashville, TN
2013
Taylor Street, Gallery One, Nashville, TN
2012
Cherokee Park, Aran Cravey Gallery, Venice, CA
2007
Peeled Away: The Tape Paintings, Ruby Green, Nashville, TN
2006
New Paintings, Take 121, Nashville, TN
2004
Fashion, The Striped Door Gallery, Nashville, TN
Brooklyn Arches, Warner Brothers Music Group, Nashville, TN
2000
Works on Paper, San Lorenzo, London, England

Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
Art Fields (Juried Fair), Lake City, SC
2013
Surpassing Edges, SPACEWOMb Gallery, NY, NY
2012
1001 Artist Project, ArtTakesMiami, Scope Art Fair
2006
Clear Box Project, Ruby Green, Nashville, TN
In Ordinary Time, DIG Art Group, Nashville, TN
2005
The Gallery at The Nashville Design Center
The Silence of God, DIG Art Group, Nashville, TN
2004
New Works, The Arts Company, Nashville, TN
2002
New Works, The Arts Company, Nashville, TN
2001
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Under the Bridge, Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2000
The Dimock Gallery, Washington, DC

Publications
2012
Cherokee Park, catalogue, Aran Cravey Gallery, 42 pages (also on web, http://issuu.com/arancravey/docs/kj_schumacher)

Selected Bibliography
2013
Acree, Cat, Nashville Ar...