Jim Schutte

Black and white portrait of a man with glasses, short gray hair, and a beard, wearing a dark blazer over a button-up shirt, looking confidently at the camera.

Jim Schutte explores the intersection of sculpture and painting, reimagining both beyond their traditional boundaries. He is drawn to sculpture’s physicality — its real, tangible gestures — rather than its role in representation, and to painting’s visual freedom and capacity for illusion.

By merging these distinct qualities, his work seeks a new visual language: one where color and form exist independently, freed from material weight and narrative constraint. In this space, gesture becomes structure, and movement itself becomes form — a synthesis of the physical and the imaginary.