Schatz Douglas
«..."Crown" is a metaphor for the underlying structure of the world around us, where like an iceberg, only the tops of a vast understructure are visible. It illustrates the idea that below all that we see there is a foundation and a history...»
Biography
F. Douglass Schatz was born in Nashville TN in 1969. He graduated from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY in 1992 where he received a B.A. in sculpture and geology. He received his M.S. in Geology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN in 1996. He completed his M.F.A. in sculpture in 1999 granted by the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, KY. Schatz currently is a tenured Professor at the State University of New York, in Potsdam, NY. He is based in New York State and Tennessee and exhibits throughout the United States.
Schatz is known for his fabricated steel forms and cast bronze sculptures. Schatz uses images of containment, suppression and compression of objects to illustrate the ideas of societal dynamics and self-awareness. His outdoor sculptures relate these ideas to the dynamic world of geology and the history of our being.
