RAS. ARTIST BIO 214/ Rodger Schultz / Born: 1970 Washington DC/ Education: B.A. Graphic Design Program UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County 1988-92 / Apprenticeship: Sculpture, Ed Breathitt, John Soderberg, 1994-5 / Rodger Schultz is one of the few visionaries available today who can perpetually expand and contract his work while and maintaining an ever-strengthening elasticity. A Fine Art Painter turned Sculptor turned Sign Maker turned Graphic Designer turned Corporate Illustrator turned Interface Designer turned Self, RAS. is probably the most diversely fluent creative mind we've met. He's knocked for not being predictable, and the heads like predictabe...but his rabid fans and collectors submit that his freshness is what sets him apart. We agree. We like not being able to figure him out. And it wouldn't be proper to define RAS. as just a painter, or artist even. He is a True Creative, and his work is wholly intended and of the highest order.

RAS. ARTIST STATEMENT 187/ Rodger Schultz / "When I approach a canvas, I empty myself of all goals, notions, aims, ideals, preconceived yearning and prior learnings. Grand works should always start with infinite possibility, because they surely cannot end with it. If one approaches his canvas with nothing, he is assured that only his true self will remain to slather on the board. For me, I hope what remains is beautiful, and if I have any purpose or desire as a creative, it is to manifest beauty, out of myself."

RAS. ARTIST STATEMENT 213/ Rodger Schultz / "Yesterday I gilded a lilly. Today I bedazzled a turd. Tomorrow I may paint the Mona Lisa. I can only do what's in my heart at the moment. I tried to be one of the these artists that paints the same thing over and over and uses the same subject and palette for 30 years. It's like cold death to me. I seek not to cram infinity into a thimble."

RAS. ARTIST STATEMENT 128/ "If you want to know the Buddha, become a Buddhist. If you want to know thyself, paint."

RAS. ARTIST STATEMENT 279/ Rodger Schultz / I have a dozen ideas a minute. Sometimes a thousand a minute, and I drown in it. I want to achieve them all at once - to paint every painting all at the same time - every war and every portrait and every still life. So far, they only come out one at a time.

RAS. ARTIST STATEMENT 97/ 9-17-2008 / The Paint is an unknown and infinite world that has virtually nothing to do with paint. Nothing to do with color or subject or line or form or the ability to manipulate spacial relationships. The Paint is a field in which one may walk through in search of Himself. It may be a fierce battlefield, a field flowing of lilacs and hyacinth or a barren land of sand and sorrow. The Paint is different for everyone, yet he who paints, will find Himself there. The question is 'will he like what he sees?'

Paint long enough, and well enough, and they will call you a Master. Yet as it has come to me, the only true goal and true mastery of any value, is the Mastery of One Self. This is the Mastery I look for and ask for and pray for. I want to be Free, and when I am able to place the paint on the canvas without any judgement or lableling of any kind, I will know I am close.

When Blessed, I may get one or two pure brush stokes per canvas. And that single stroke is thing of exquisite beauty I cannot define. A glimpse of peace from a non-judgemental mind. Peace and Healing and Forgiveness will not be found in a brush stroke...it will be found within I. And when I find it, I will give it to you. In the meantime, I will continue to show up, and place the brush to surface. (Updated 2011* Rodger awakended in Aug of 2010 and self realized Sept 2010. He points to this place daily on facebook and will speak to any who wish this freedom.)

RAS. SNIPPIT 115/ "...Please welcome Washington DC mega-creative and outsider artist Rodger Schultz. After a decade long brow-beat as a corporate illustrator he returns to his piquant love, the paint. He commands the sword like somebody who's been here before and has more confidence than he probably should. He's a shape shifter, and recently hit the public with a bullet. On a wink from the Holy Spirit and a nod from Jackson Pollock he's penning another signature series "Jackson Pollock on Prozac," known as "JPOP" (jay-pop) on the streets. Highly coveted in the polo-hippy crowd, JPOP are already rumored to be held with discretion in the collection of several Royals and Nobels. Wine Money. They're not easily entertained, and impressed only by excellence." ~ Margie Wan, Jan 2010

RAS. SNIPPIT 104/ Rodger Schultz is an upcoming International Experimental Fine Artist renowned for his ability to continually reinvent himself with no degradation in quality, presence or form. He generally will run an experimental series of about 4 works by his fans and family on facebook before engaging in a series of work. The high demand series may reach 20-25 works before being graduated to larger sizes. By keeping series original and at smaller numbers, his work remains highly collectible for his patrons and keeps RAS. on a ever-challenging path of excellerated growth. "[Rodger] is one of the few visionaries available who can perpetually expand and contract his work while and maintaining an ever-strengthening elasticity." ~ LeMar Getty

RAS. SNIPPIT 113/ (excerpt)...DC born Rodger Schultz paints in Self Awareness. The former corporate Illustrator and Information Designer presents images from his travels inward, all of which he claims represent, reflect, and symbolize nothing. "If I paint a pear, it's because I want to paint a pear, not because I'm trying to trying to extrapolate the overlapping, harmonious relationships between the Crusades and Crimean War. I try to simplify, not make complex. The image of the pear is not really what's important. Only the moment is important - when brush touches paint, when paint touches canvas - was I present? Was I aware? Did I judge? I paint to practice the moment, and when blessed, something beautiful is left over."

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