Recent Paintings: Iris Schomaker

With an opening reception on 17 November from 7 to 9pm, Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to begin our second individual exhibition of the work of the painter Iris Schomaker.

The process of capturing the figure and the discovery of the precise painterly composition seems just as much both the object and subject of these paintings as the motif and its atmospheric and physical qualities. All the same, the emphasis on one or the other differs depending on the series, motif, and goal of expression.

The paintings shown at Galerie Thomas Schulte in this exhibition all show the same androgynous figure in a strict, sketch-like style.

The multiple traces of the painting process clearly exhibit the gradual approach to the ideal distribution of what is depicted on the visual surface. In so doing, a unique spatial dynamic emerges, disturbing the beholder, who automatically feels compelled to find the genuine line. Schomaker thus displaces the engagement with the sketch on a level of representation that depicts the process itself, and presents it to the beholder. This lacking fixation becomes a forming and dynamic force in the act of reception.