Images Extract Visions from the Common Place
“Across Time” is a successful, new interactive video installation commissioned from Chicago sculptor Lincoln Schatz by the Spertus Museum. It’s on display in the first of two places it will be sited, in the current Spertus lobby. The piece will, among other things, record the construction of the Spertus’ building to the north, where it [...]
After ARCO
Steve Sacks, director from the New York based gallery bitforms, a well-known pioneer in the fields of digital and robotic art, reported great success at ARCO. One standout in his booth was a software-based work by the Chicago artist Lincoln Schatz that mesmerized the ARCO audience. Titled Stitch, the work combines images from the past [...]
Language of Art Written in Code
Technology entrepreneur and art collector Peter Hirshberg is at home in his SoHo loft, talking about his contemporary art collection. Besides postmodern French cinema posters, photographs by Robert Longo and a sketch by Javacheff Christo, there’s something else that’s pretty au courant. He touches a screen hanging on a wall and it immediately jumps to [...]
Artist Exhibits a Hybrid Approach with His Digital Designs
Lincoln Schatz is sort of a man without a country. When he mentions his interest in new-media art to his fine-arts peers, “They say, ‘That’s nice, but it’s not real art.’” And when he talks to new-media artists about his sculptures and drawings, they tell him to get his head out of the sand. Such [...]
Art is Larger Than Life at Navy Pier
Lincoln Schatz didn’t get much sleep during the early morning hours Monday. About every 30 minutes, he would wake up and look out the window to check on “Fifi,” who was resting atop a flat bed truck outside his Lake View home. “Fifi,” a 3,800-pound, 16-by-23-foot stainless-steel sculpture that looks more like a child’s back-yard [...]
Catalog Essay, Galeria Ferran Cano
Without a doubt, the planning stage of a work assumes a fundamental importance in the linguistic strategy of Lincoln Schatz, as it carries special articulations of the subject matter devised by the artist. Schatz predisposes an initial form which is progressively developed through modular moments that multiply, without repeating, the point of departure. The module [...]
Cafritz and Schatz at Henri
A joint show of the sculptures of Anthony Cafritz and Lincoln Schatz now at Henri Gallery is one of the most rewarding exhibits in town. The work of both young Chicago-based artists evinces an affinity, intentional or not, with that of those early-20th-century modernists who worked on the fringes of the Dada movement. Giacometti’s early [...]