large scaled – Cleveland State Art

Andrew Schoultz was born in 1975 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but he has lived and worked in San Francisco, CA since 1997.

Andrew works about 80 hours a week as a full time artist, and has for a little over ten years.

“I’d describe my work as art that’s attempting to create experiences and visuals that in some way record contemporary history.” -Andrew Schoultz.

He works with many medias such as mixing drawings , paintings, collages, print making , and large scale wall paintings and sculpture , sometimes he uses gold leaf as well to create art.

He is inspired by The Nuremberg Chronicles, a book that was written in 1493 in which some of the very first cities and countries were illustrated, basically the start of map-making. Another work that inspired him was the dance movie “Breakin” it was what got him started with graffiti art.

“I’d say that my work has a lot to do with history and how it repeats itself over and over again. I’d also say that there’s definitely been an influence of underground comics as well as graffiti, which may or may not be obvious at this point in time. .”- Andrew Schoultz.

The themes that tend to pop up in most of his works are war, global warming, natural disasters and economic crisis. One way Andrew describes his work is “chaotic, multi-layering and political.”

He tells stories about everyday issues and life through his art work, by sticking political remarks in the form of graffiti and underground comics , mixed with some medieval grip mapping out man and nature’s history.

Andrew Schoultz’s big break was in the Clarion Alley Mural Project, with his “Coffee Machine” mural, supported by Aaron Noble. Aaron Noble is a well know muralist in San Fransisco, he was was the one to push Andrew in to the scene of public art.

He has spent a lot of time on the streets doing wall paintings and murals but he has also spent time doing galleries as well. He has a great passion for doing large paintings on public areas so he can inform the people of the current social and political issues.

In high school he soared through the art program and had one of his own pieces in the Milwaukee Art Museum where he won a scholarship to the University of Wisconsin, but he ended up leaving after the first semester because he was much more interested in street art and skateboarding.