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Specimens of the Plague Year

For one year during the covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Robert Schultz made notes and art in a daily practice of reflection and observation. To accompany his wide-ranging entries, he browsed his wife’s gardens, bringing in small, local beauties to photograph on his scanner. Things blooming and failing in their seasons mark our collective progress through a…

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Against the Dark

Robert Schultz received the “Art Search” prize conducted by Streetlight Magazine and Chroma Projects gallery for his Against the Dark project. Streetlight ran an illustrated feature and the Against the Dark exhibition was mounted in the Chroma Projects “Vault” gallery in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia in February 2022.

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FRAMES Magazine feature

The photographic artwork of Robert Schultz was featured in FRAMES Magazine (Vol. 4, July 2021) in a 16-page spread that included seven works accompanied by Schultz’s remarks. The photographs included leafprints of Walt Whitman and Civil War combatants, drawing images from the Liljenquist Family Collection in the US Library of Congress. The seven works were…

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Exhibitions and Awards

Since 2019 Robert Schultz’s art has appeared in two solo exhibitions and 27 juried group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the U.S. In the process he has received eight awards, including the juror’s award, first prize, or gold medal five times. The awards were made in association with exhibitions in such venues as SoHo…

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Gold Medal and Portfolio Award

The Portfolio Award in the 2020 San Francisco Bay Area International Photograph Awards went to Robert Schultz’s series of six leafprints, and one of the works, “Young Union Soldier in a Nasturtium Leaf,” was awarded the competition’s Gold Medal. As a result, Schultz’s work was featured in Bokeh Bokeh photography magazine.

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We Were Pirates on The Smithsonian Channel

A film crew traveled to Salem, Virginia to interview Robert Schultz for a segment in the Smithsonian Channel’s series, “Combat Ships,” that surveys warships over the ages. The episode “Top Gun” recounted the terrifying efficacy of the WWII depth charge, and its prime example was the 13-hour depth-charge attack survived by the WWII submarine U.S.S.…

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Robert Schultz: Against the Dark

Robert Schultz’s Streetlight Art Search-winning work will be exhibited at the Chroma Projects unique “vault” gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia February 4-25, 2022. The exhibition, curated by Deborah McLeod, includes prints and journal entries from Schultz’s Specimens of the Plague Year as well as chlorophyll print portraits of writers Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Rachel Carson. Schultz’s specimen prints were made using items gathered in his wife’s gardens which he scanned in a darkened room with the scanner’s lid removed. The Chroma Projects gallery is located upstairs directly across from The Front Porch, 3 rd Street S.E., Charlottesville, Virginia. Purchase inquiries should be addressed to Deborah…

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“Memorial Leaves” Solo Exhibit Opens August 12

Robert Schultz’s first solo museum exhibition opened at the Athenaeum in Alexandria, Virginia August 12. “Memorial Leaves” draws inspiration from Walt Whitman’s prediction that the nation’s civil war dead will inhabit “every future grain of wheat and ear of corn, and every flower that grows, and every breath we draw.” The exhibition’s chlorophyll prints–portraits of…

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Reliquary at Academy Art Museum

Robert Schultz’s “Reliquary” is an archival print made of an assemblage of items that includes a chlorophyll print, plant specimens, and a locust. This work was selected for exhibition in the “New Photography II” show at the Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD juried by Philip Brookman, Consulting Curator at the National Gallery of Art. The…

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