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| Details: | A sculptor and painter who lived and worked most of her professional life in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Charlotte Schatz (1929-2023) explored industrial forms through non-traditional materials and colorful, painted compositions that were considered unconventional for women artists at the time. Charlotte Schatz: Industrial Strength investigates the visual and material connections between Schatz’s sculpture and paintings as she documented the region’s changing industrial landscape. After raising a family and pursuing a fine arts degree as an adult, Schatz created enigmatic, abstract sculptures from metal and unusual materials like PVC pipes, mirrors, Plexiglas, and polyfoams, inspired by the work of minimalist artists Judy Chicago, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Lucas Samaras. In the late 1970s, she became aware of the danger of the chemicals she worked with and slowly transitioned to painting and drawing. Her later industrial-themed body of work was a response to the decaying factories she viewed, and often trespassed, in Philadelphia’s Old City and Northern Liberties neighborhoods.
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| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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