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Combine Series
1. Water Tower Combine #13, 2003, oil stick over
     colored gesso, 36" x 24"
2. Water Tower Combine #12, 2003, oil stick over
     colored gesso, 23" x 24"
3. Water Tower Combine #11, 2003, oil stick over
     colored gesso, 32" x 32"
4. Water Tower Combine #10, 2003, oil stick over
     colored gesso, 22" x 22"
5. Water Tower Combine #5, 2003-2004, oil stick,
     acrylic on canvas, 66 1/4" x 42"
6. Water Tower Combine #3, 2002, acrylic on paper on
     panel, 30” x 22”
7. Water Tower Combine #2, 2002, acrylic on paper on
     panel, 30 1/2” h x 22 1/2”
8. Tank/Tower Combine #1, 2004, oil stick, acrylic on
     canvas, 26” x 25 1/2"
9. Tank Combine #3, 2004, oil stick, acrylic on canvas,
     24" x 36"
10. Tank Combine #2, 2004, oil stick, acrylic on canvas,
       24" x 24"

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Urban Renewal Series
1. James Door Check, acrylic on canvas, 32" x 40"
2. Flat Iron Building #1, acrylic on canvas, 50" x 50"
3. Flat Iron Building #2, acrylic on wood, 25-1/2" x 18 1/4"
4. Flat Iron Building #3, acrylic on wood, 25-1/2" x 25 1/2"
5. 2nd Street Hopper #2, oil stick, acrylic on canvas, 20-1/2" x 21-1/2"
6. Bethlehem Steel #4, acrylic on wood panel, 23-1/2" x 37-1/4"
7. Blue Windows, oil stick, acrylic on canvas, 32” x 45"
8. PPG - Portland, acrylic on canvas, 25” x 40"
9. Silos, oil stick, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 54"

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1. Willow Steam #6, acrylic, oil stick on Arches, 36" x 24"
2. View From 509 #1, acrylic, oil stick on canvas, 24" x 36"
3. 2nd Street Hopper, acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48"
4. Henry Weinhard Brewery #1, acrylic on canvas, 50" x 39-1/2"
5. Bethlehem Steel #2, acrylic on wood panel, 24-1/4" x 17"
6. Bethlehem Steel #3, acrylic on wood panel, 25-1/2" x 33"

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Contact Information
Putnam Building
1627 North 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
tel: 215-925-2884
e-mail: schatzart@gmail.com
http://www.charlotteschatz.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
Form and color are my primary concerns. My subject matter has been the detritus of the Industrial Age – the hoppers, smoke stacks and remains of breweries and factories that I see as I travel the US. Since many of these structures no longer exist, there is an historic aspect to my work that has been described by Robin Rice as “resurrected relics of power which have a new life in memory”.

Recently, as a result of working with overlapping digital collages in Photoshop and the viscosity of oil paint sticks in my paintings, transparency became a compositional element. The result is this new work that I call Combines. These pieces are much more abstract than my industrial paintings – more about color, texture and surface.

Awards
2004
Pollock-Krasner Foundation

2000
Leeway Foundation Award for Established Artists

Bibliography
Boccella, Maggie, "Charlotte Schatz & Her Urban Renewal" Artmatters, October 2004

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2006
Spring, Artworks, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Commerce Square, Philadelphia PA

2004
Urban Horizons, Toad Hall Gallery, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton NJ

2001
Pennswood Village Gallery, Newtown, PA

2000
Jasuta, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Conant Hall Gallery, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

1993
Esther Klein Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA

1986
Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA

1977
Sculpture Retrospective, Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ

1976
Stockton College, Atlantic City, NJ

1975
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Old York Road Art Guild, Jenkintown, PA

1970
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Group

2007
Assemblage, Widener University Art Gallery, Chester, PA

2005
Cityscapes, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia PA

The Contemporary Eye, James A. Michener Art Museum, New Hope, PA

Third Biennial, Senior Artists Initiative, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia PA

2004
Assemblage, Community Art Center, Wallingford, PA

2003
Assemblage / 2003, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

Orbit Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

140th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Reflect/Respond, ArtForms, Philadelphia, PA & Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY

2003, 2002,1999, 1998,1992, 1989
Painting Annual, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
Prize

2000
Pictura Lucida, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Gritty City, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Uncommon Landscapes, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

1998
Pennsylvania Treasures I, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA

The Legacy Preserved, 10 Years of Collecting,
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

Tres Emeriti, Hicks Art Gallery, Bucks County
Community College, Newtown, PA

National Drawing '98, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

1997
The Many Faces of Faith, Balch Institute, Philadelphia, PA

1996
Women Revisioning the Sacred, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1995, 1992
Faculty Exhibit, Hicks Art Gallery, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA

1994
26th Bienniel, Works On or Of Paper,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE

1993
Art of the State '93, State Museum, Harrisburg PA
Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

1991, 1989
Works on Paper, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Prize

Other
2006, 2005, 2004, 2002
POST, Philadelphia Open Studios Tour, Philadelphia, PA

2005
North of the Border4, Art in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA

2004
North of the Border3, Art in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA

2003
North of the Border2, Art in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA

1990
Open Studio, Atelier Rachita, Paris, France

Open Studio, Crees Bldg, Corvallis, OR