In addition to her art practice Schuette is an arts consultant and the founder and former executive director of Sushi Performance & Visual Art (1980-1995).
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Lynn Schuette is a visual artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and mixed media. Schuette often explores the body and nature, ranging from classical figurative and landscape painting to anatomical/medical imagery often laced with contemporary social issues.
Since 1987, she has created fourteen series of works including Bloodstorm, an exploration of boxing, 1990-92; Mi oeste perdido (My Lost West), elemental landscapes, times of day and weather conditions, using white, black and yellow ochre only, 2004-2009; and The Beauty Project, sixty-four paintings generated from answers to a question about beauty, 2010. Schuette received a City of San Diego public art commission in 1999. The Color of This Life is Water, which is eight panels at 110” x 107” each, was installed at the San Diego Convention Center from 2003-2013. Schuette’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the San Diego area, including California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido (2017). Her work is also included in public, corporate, and private collections including the City of San Diego Art Collection, the San Diego History Center, and Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles. |
