Joan Schulze

1936 Chicago, Illinois USA, studios in San Francisco and Sunnyvale, California. Lecture and teach internationally. In The Fresno Art Museum, California, awarded Schulze the Council of 100's Distinguished Woman Artist for 2017 with catalog and exhibition "CELEBRATING 80-Joan Schulze" Produced 2 reference books: The Art of Joan Schulze, 1999 and Poetic License-The Art of Joan Schulze, 2010; 2 catalogs: QUILTS:Joan Schulze; iQuilt iDraw-The original fiction of Joan Schulze; 3 poem books, most recent 2017 "In-between". About the artist: Schulze began to make art seriously in 1970. These early works were stitched and embroidered and her first collage explorations. Beginning with her first quilt in 1974, Schulze altered purchased fabrics dyeing (60s and 70s), painting and Xerox transfer (80s), photography and photocopy (70s), digital technology (90s) including an ongoing fascination with direct and glue transfer processes (80s to present). While her interest in technology continues, Schulze's main theme is poetry: the poetry of strange often surreal juxtapositions, elegant colors, eccentric surfaces and most of all, the element of surprise in theme and execution. Quilts from 2000 to 2007 reintroduce her interest in gardens while in 200...