Details:

This painting depicts a multi-layered composition intertwining the artist's pictographic vocabulary with patterns rendered in bright and fluorescent hues—creating a shimmering, optically vibrating composition. Amidst the layers are an ancient vessel tipping to the side, a brick wall-like pattern, a number of green birds in flight, and a striped wild cat nearly contained within the vessel. Moving between representation and abstraction, this hypnotic and dizzying work is also a surprisingly meditative allegory that broaches questions while suggesting there are no clear answers.
Unframed
This artwork is currently on view in a special exhibition and will ship by September 8, 2023.

① Artwork:

Vessell 3 (Beast and Birds)

This painting depicts a multi-layered composition intertwining the artist's pictographic vocabulary with patterns rendered in bright and fluorescent hues—creating a shimmering, optically vibrating composition. Amidst the layers are an ancient vessel tipping to the side, a brick wall-like pattern, a number of green birds in flight, and a striped wild cat nearly contained within the vessel. Moving between representation and abstraction, this hypnotic and dizzying work is also a surprisingly meditative allegory that broaches questions while suggesting there are no clear answers.

Specs:

22 inches
30 inches

③ Artist:

Andrew Schoultz

Encompassing murals, paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations, Andrew Schoultz’s work employs a signature style of densely-packed and meticulously-rendered motifs to represent the turmoil of the contemporary world. The artist’s work combines these motifs with references to antique etchings, Persian miniature paintings and the work of William T. Wiley and M. C. Escher, as well as Mission school street art. Schoultz’s unique style is an intense vision of a planet threatened by overcrowding and overconsumption—depicting societies under siege by the governments that are there to protect them.

Andrew Schoultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1975.

The artist was a professional skateboarder prior to moving to San Francisco, California in 1998. Shoultz’s work became an important part of the urban fabric in the Mission District of San Francisco and beyond. The artist’s murals, paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations have been extensively exhibited and acquired by important public and private collections throughout Europe and the United States.

Andrew Schoultz:
Vessell 3 (Beast and Birds), 2022
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
30.0 × 22.0 inches /