Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle is pleased to announce our tenth solo exhibition with Seattle-based artist Michael Schultheis. In The flowers of Fibonacci, Schultheis references the titular mathematical sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two before it, as an exploratory vessel for the expanding rhythms and reverberations of our relationships. Across gesturally abstract acrylic paintings and bronze sculptures, Schultheis blurs and obfuscates snippets of geometrical figures, articulating the folds and bends of two people’s connection across a lifetime. Through visualizing human consciousness in sweeping movements punctuated by equations and overlapping lines, Schultheis expands his visual language of love and commitment as something simultaneously tactile and vaporous— concretely real and yet nearly indecipherable. His vivid compositions and meticulous, organic sculptures translate that unknowability into a language built upon the rationality of science and the expressiveness of abstraction.

This volume of our lives is comprised of cycles, rhythms, and sequences of meaningful connections with our beloved people, the ones who support, nurture, and inspire us to live in better ways. I explore where we can see these different patterns in the rhythms of our life…. In these paintings and sculptures, I explore what happens when two people are beginning a relationship and develop an attraction for each other, and then start moving through their lives together.

(Michael Schultheis)

Michael Schultheis' work can be found in the collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; United States Embassy, Athens, Greece & Bern, Switzerland; and the Mathematical Association of America, Washington DC among many others. Exhibitions of his works have been held at the Howard Hughes Institute in Chevy Chase, MD and at the National Academies of Sciences in Washington, D.C.