Artist’s Statement
The daily ebb and flow of life reveals a drama accentuated in my work. Using organic forms, I explore the dichotomies between permanent and impermanent, public and private, external and internal, to create an intimate and humane ideal. Light plays through the latticed forms of the woven sculptures, blending line, movement, time and the body. Focused, hand-wrought, craftsmanship, reveals a yielding openness, that invites viewer interaction.

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Michael Stutz is a native of Southeast Tennessee. He received a BFA in Painting from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and attended Ulster Polytechnic in Belfast, Northern Ireland. After a brief stint as a billboard painter, he moved to San Francisco, where he exhibited his paintings and constructions while working as a display artist and prop builder for the film and fashion industry.

During a three year period in New Orleans, Stutz found a new direction for his art, while working as a Mardi Gras parade float builder. The public nature of the parades, the emphasis upon scale and caricature, continue to inform his work.

Upon returning to San Francisco, Stutz became involved in the burgeoning Dot-Com boom fueled art scene. In 1999, he installed a 30 foot long, woven bronze nude upon the W Hotel in San Francisco, a prominent location, directly adjacent to the SFMOMA.

After the birth of his son in 2000, Stutz and his family moved to San Diego County, where he continues to create private and public commissions for collectors and cities across the nation.