DRINK-N-DRAW SPOTLIGHT // Scott Schultheis' Anthropomorphic Portraits

A portrait from Schultheis' "Receptions" series.Every Wednesday evening people flock to 3rd Ward for Drink-n-Draw. One of those people is Scott Schultheis.

Why does he come? "I come for the beer," he says. "Duh! Exercising life drawing skills doesn't hurt either—it's an all around great time."

"I make collages paintings and drawings about what makes people tick, what drives us to pursue the things we do and sell the things we do," Schultheis tells us. "This is a broad narrative but I'm illustrating it to prompt further introspection rather than arrive at definitive answers. Semi realistic, macabre, surreal, precious and absurd—these are the words I think about while I'm making work."

Right now Schultheis is working a series called "Receptions," which features "anthropomorphic, strange 'portraits' of these familiar but unnamed sculptural blobs." He's works out his studio in Bay Ridge through a Chashama Visual Artist Residency and also bartends at Bobo in the West Village. In the fall he'll be heading to Philly to get an MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Slap your computer monitor and give a Scott a hi-five!

For now though, you can see his work in "Convergence," the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition's Spring Pier Art Show in Red Hook. The show is open on weekends from 1-6pm through June 12. 

We'll conclude with one more fun fact from Schultheis: "You know I really like you if I'm making Challah French Toast with bananas and a lil orange spiked maple sizzurp."

--John Ruscher