A conversation with Chris Schulz reveals that he has all the essential qualities that can propel a sculptor to great heights: he has vision, drive and a pure love of form, coupled with a fundamental attraction to the medium of bronze. In a young sculptor these qualities give life to the foundation skills, and will take those elements to exciting levels as the artist explores the inspirations that drive him.
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Schulz is already adept at capturing the nuances of the human form‹and this is no small accomplishment, given that all artists acknowledge the inherent challenges of depicting the human anatomy‹in three dimensional art these challenges are magnified tremendously. Schulz has the innate ability to depict the human form with truth, but more importantly, he has the sensitivity to endow the forms he creates with that mysterious aura of energy and spirit that make figurative sculpture so powerfully emotive. His journey has begun, and he has prepared himself by studying the anatomy with Edmund Shumpert, and the technical aspects of bronze casting under Richard MacDonald. These two rigorous mentors, each highly respected in his own right, taught Schulz the importance of a thorough grounding in technical excellence.

What Schulz is seeding with each piece is an indefinable sense of integrity and energy. The most interesting aspect of the human form, for him, is the way posture, form and composition convey a sense of the subject¹s thoughts. This communication is figurative sculpture at its highest level‹if a sculptor can capture the essence of a moment of internal struggle, or give the viewer a sense of the subject¹s frame of mind, then the result is a work of art worthy of the name. It becomes timeless. Schulz wants to take "the strongest things I know and make them into art". This is a pure and simple definition of what sculpture should be about. Schulz explains, " I live for sculpture, and everything I experience, I bring to it".

This journey is bound to be a fascinating one to watch, as Schulz takes the medium he was meant to master and drives himself to uncover what is most unique about his vision, his creation, and his passion.