Paul Schulenburg 25th Anniversary Reception
July 12 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Internationally collected, Paul Schulenburg’s work has shown in the Hopper House Museum, in solo shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and in many group exhibitions at CCMA, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Cahoon Museum of American Art. Schulenburg has appeared over a dozen times in respected national art publications including a feature in Fine Art Connoisseur, as well as on the cover of American Art Collector. Schulenburg was awarded the Patrons’ Choice Award at the Copley Society of Art, as well as a residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Work will be posted at addisonart.com as it is completed and may be reserved.
Known for the diversity of his subject matter, the artist is respected for honoring coastal traditions, specifically the fishing fleet. “Paul Schulenburg is one of those rare painters who can capture not just what something looks like but what it feels like…That alone makes his work a treasure.” —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
According to Nicholas Dawes, Chairman and CEO, Salmagundi Club, New York, “Paul Schulenburg is an American artist of the first order, who carries the standards and tradition of Edward Hopper and our finest provocative plein air painters into a modern world. He has the ability to make the commonplace extraordinary, and is equally at home in the unique light of Cape Cod, or the nuance of a New York City streetscape.”
A juried member of Oil Painters of America and the Portrait Society of America, he has completed hundreds of figure and portrait studies and paintings featuring local characters along with many individuals recognized from stage and screen.
While a strong connection American realism is seen in the current body of work, the artist’s reach and growth is evident in a selection of paintings that explore a more expressive portrayal of scenes and some that further approach abstract compositions.
In 2020, Addison Art Gallery published Paul Schulenburg Oil Paintings, a 200-page, full color book featuring over 200 paintings.
“Paul Schulenburg has earned his place in the continuum of great American painting. The beauty and insightfulness of his New England and New York scenes reveal how closely he observes these places and their residents, yet never does his art feel localized or story-driven. Instead, Schulenburg’s skills in composing and use of values enable the paintings to transcend the here-and-now, to become universal. Achieving this means imbuing his images with a subtle monumentality and even melancholy, without calling our attention to either. Thus, no matter how sunny his weather may be, we sense a soulfulness that makes us stop and look again. In this breathless age of throwaway imagery, it is both a relief and a privilege to stop and look again with Paul Schulenburg.” —Peter Trippi, Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, New York
Prior to becoming a full-time fine artist, Schulenburg spent 20 years creating award-winning art for publication worldwide. His client list included: Digital Equipment Corporation, Cigna, Fidelity Investments, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Sunoco, TIME, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, Cahners, Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin, and Ziff-Davis. During this period, he was also commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a portrait of museum trustee Eliot Forbes. Schulenburg earned a BFA in painting at Boston University School. His oils can be found in prestigious collections throughout the United States, in Canada, Europe and Hong Kong.
Live music by Dario Acosta Teich.