Cover Image: Visiting and exhibiting artist Pete Schulte delivers a lecture at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on September 16, 2022. Photo by Sidney Chansamone, @sid.chansa 

On September 16th, in a quiet lecture hall at the School of Art, hours before the bustling energy of the Art Party Extravaganza, exhibiting artist Pete Schulte delivered the lecture “Notes on Drawing.” Schulte's work, on display in the Margie E. West Gallery through November 10th, is composed of monochromatic drawings of looping lines and graphite glowing shapes. The Birmingham-based artist took to the podium to share a series of reflections, references, and allusions to notions of stillness, exploratory drawing, and the deep consideration behind making artworks.

The exhibition on view in the Margie E. West gallery this fall, organized by The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College, pairs Schulte's drawings with assemblage paintings by Yevgeniya Baras. Read together, the exhibition presents a myriad of ways of looking and making, both rough and refined, open and closed. 

Dodd Galleries curator Dr. Katie Geha introduces Pete Schulte. Photo by Sidney Chansamone, @sid.chansa 

Quote by Vija Celmins on the experience of drawing and making drawings projected in Pete Schulte's presentation. Photo by Sidney Chansamone, @sid.chansa 

Lamar Dodd School of Art Director Joseph Peragine poses a question to Pete Schulte during the lecture Q & A session. Photo by Sidney Chansamone, @sid.chansa 

Curated selection of books selected by Pete Schulte presented by the UGA Art Library as part of the ongoing series “The Artist is Reading,” in which visiting artists are invited to contribute a list of books currently inspiring their practice. Photo by Sidney Chansamone, @sid.chansa 

Artist Pete Schulte poses in front of his artwork on display at the Margie E. West Gallery. Photo by Sidney Chansamone, @sid.chansa 

Artist Bio

Pete Schulte is and artist based in Birmingham, Alabama, He has presented recent solo exhibitions and installations at Mckenzie Fine Art, New York, New York; The Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson New York; Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; and The Woskob Family Gallery at Penn State University. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Hyperallergic, Art in America, World Sculpture News, Burnaway, and The New Art Examiner have reviewed his work, among other publications. In 2017 Schulte was awarded the inaugural Southern Art Prize Fellowship for the state of Alabama. He has been awarded residencies at The Chinati Foundation (2019), Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (2016), Yaddo (2015), Altantic Center for the Arts (2010), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2010), and Threewalls (2010). Pete Schulte received an MFA in painting and drawing from The University of Iowa in 2008. He is Associate Professor of Art at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In 2013 Schulte co-founded, with Amy Pleasant, The Fuel and Lumber Company curatorial initiative. He is represented by McKenzie Fine Art in New York.