GARY SCHLINGHEIDER GERMANY, 1983

COLOR IN MOTION: GARY SCHLINGHEIDER’S GEOMETRIC LANGUAGE

Gary Schlingheider uses a symbiotic combination of painting and sculpture in his work, which arises from his exploration of the overlap between these two art forms. He concentrates mainly on color and form. His works are large-format and characterized by powerful, opaque colors and geometric, reduced forms. Inspired by art historical greats such as the minimalists Ellsworth Kelly or Frank Stella, Schlingheider explores the boundaries between painting and sculpture in an innovative way. Painting and sculpture seem to merge seamlessly. He isolates everyday objects from their ordinary surroundings, abstracts them strongly and shapes them into simple and clear forms in his sculptures. These are positioned in space, similar to a three-dimensional drawing. The modules can lie on the foor, lean against the wall or be presented individually,be in pairs or overlap, depending on the spatial situation.

Born 1983 in Detmold, he lives and works in Berlin and Ostwestfalen Lippe, Germany. Gary Schlingheider studied at the Berlin University of the Arts as a master student with Prof. Christine Streuli as well as with Prof. Pia Fries and Prof. Gregory Cumins.

His works have been awarded the Manfred Fuchs Prize, the Loth Sculpture Prize at Art Karlsruhe, the Diffring Prize for Sculpture and the Master Student Prize of the President of the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2023 he has been teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts, in the Department of Work in Space.