Venn Pirouettes, the Art of Michael Schultheis, presents the artist’s three-dimensional mathematical Venn Sculptures in tandem with his paintings, aiming to transportviewers into a world where equations and symbols are a timeless and universal language that communicates the evolution of human relationships. The featured paintings and Venn Sculptures include: Water Lilies of Archimedes, Rings of Pythagoras, Breath of Menelaus, Optics of Euclid, Apollonius Portals, Cycloids of Ceva, Venn Pleasures, Venn Passions, Venn Desires, and Venn Fidelities.
The exhibit explores the math behind the analytical formulae the artist uses as the basis for his paintings and sculptures, which include Venn diagrams, polar curves, ideograms, spherical triangles, conic sections, and cycloids.
“I paint math equations, the geometric forms that render in my mind, and then imbue my paintings and ‘Venn Sculptures’ with stories about human relationships,” said Michael Schultheis. “I call this process ‘Analytical Expressionism,’ a term I use to describe my practice at the intersection of mathematics, science, technology, and the visual arts. For me, this is how I tell my stories.”
