Charlotte A. Schatz

This body of work reflects my formal, aesthetic and social concerns. Since 1996, I have been involved in an investigation of abandoned buildings in our urban envirohment: remnants of Industrialism in North Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Portland, Oregon.

My aim is to provoke a reaction to the geometry of these beautiful empty buildings, sans people, in a seemingly unreal space of subjective color. I use a Fauve palette to refer back to the early times when these structures were new and glorious, full of life and industry.