Artist Statement
Exploring printmaking using inkjet printing processes, I create images characteristic of painters and traditional printmakers by building impressions layer by layer. Beginning with a photograph, I use computer generated forms on top of shapes found in nature. The resulting interplay of form on form becomes the subject matter, juxtaposing minimalist spatial patterns to force an awareness of the image’s presence.
Process Statement
The process is interactive. Color and space relationships are created through multiple impressions. While some areas are printed as four color separations, individual areas may be printed in various orders of color or with different color management profiles. Selected colors may be expanded into fields to forge new relationships. r. The interplay of the photographic image with itself becomes the subject matter. Using natural forms of lichens to interplay with computer generated forms, I search for new meaning in nature and like to think that I am altering the DNA of the image.
Born in 1939, Ray Schutte earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Colorado in 1963. Watercolor was the medium of his choice. While teaching art in California, he produced photographs that combined silver with non-silver processes, imposing geometric structures on landscapes and juxtaposing words on images. Although trained in abstract expressionism, he came to appreciate pop, minimal and conceptual art that followed. His photographs explored elements of all four movements.
He began exploring digital photography and inkjet printing in 2005. Building an image rather than printing an image became the focus of the exploration. The writings of Clement Greenburg on color, Lawrence Alloway’s discussion of Systemic Painting, and the hidden geometry in work of Barnett Newman provided him context.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Mar.-Apr. 2012 An Encounter with Nature, University Friends Meeting, Seattle,WA
Oct. 2011 A Conversation in Layers, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Dec. 2011 White, Gallery 110, Seattle WA
Nov.-Dec. 2011 Foundations: Reaching Beyond the Idea of Simple Attire,
Harbor View Medical Center, Seattle, WA
July 2011 Reflect/Respond, Gallery 110 Seattle,WA
July-Aug. 2011 Faces and Figures, Aljoya Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
Jan 2011 Printmaking NOW, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Nov. 2010 Food for the Soul. Gallery 114, Portland, OR.
Aug 2010 Altered Photos, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA
July 2010 Evergreen: A sense of Place, Washington State Convention and Trade Center,Seattle, WA
July 2010 Food for the Soul, Gallery 110 Seattle, WA
June 2010 New Members Show Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
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