Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art is featuring the photography of Guggenheim fellow, Michael Schultz.
His solo exhibition, Unintended Beauty, presents images from two recent bodies of work: Grain Silos and Stone Quarries. The photographs of grain silos show us the texture, rhythm, and color of practicality, function and decay. The silos, made to perform a specific job, are transformed to a study of geometry and light by Schultz’s photography. The quarries, at first glance, seem to be studies in abstract patterning, but, a second look reveals vast stone landscapes, carved out and shaped by human determination and machines. The huge scale of the quarry sites is hard to comprehend until one sees the minuscule ladders scattered vertically throughout the stone and occasionally a workman, in a fluorescent safety vest, who looks to be the size of an ant. Neither subject matter was designed to be beautiful. Beauty is shown to us through Michael Schultz’s extraordinary personal photographic vision.
