CARL SCHWARTZ

Carl E. Schwartz is a nationally recognized painter and print-maker. He was born in Detroit and educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago where he earned a BFA degree. His impressive biography lists awards such as the Logan Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago... juried and invitational exhibitions... Art Across America sponsored by Mead Corporation... One and two person shows at Illinois State Museum and the Art Institute S&R Gallery in Chicago. His works are on display in more than 25 college and universities throughout the country, including Harvard, Ball State, Loyola, Michigan State, Nevada, Minnesota and Chicago to name a few.

 

He has many major placements in permanent collections throughout the United States, such as The Smithsonian Institution, Kemper Insurance, AT&T, Sears, Delta Airlines, Beatrice Foods, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and abroad, including the British Museum in London. He has worked with and been published by both Reader's Digest and Playboy Magazine. He can be found in Who's Who, Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who in American Art.

 

Mr. Schwartz taught figure drawing and painting in Chicago at the North Shore Art League for almost 30 years and in 1984 he moved to Florida permanently. He has returned to teaching at Florida Gulf Coast University where he teaches drawing and painting and is experiencing much enjoyment and satisfaction in watching the growth of young artists. Mr. Schwartz is frequently asked to jury art shows because of his own experience.

 

Mr. Schwartz has extended his interested beyond the canvas. He has created a number of gardens which have been written up in various magazines. His own water garden contains several Koi ponds complete with water lilies, some of which he propagates himself. He has filled his garden with some unusual plant life not often seen else-where. It provides a perfect setting at the subject of many of his watercolors and acrylic paintings.

 

Carl E. Schwartz is a realist whose work shows an influence of both abstract expressionism and cubism. An interest in the effects of light assumes a central important in his work and as he states..."I am a painter of light. I'm intrigued and fascinated with form. To me, there are two worlds...the one we live in...and the one that I create. Painting is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover both of these worlds."