We are thrilled to welcome John Schaeffer as the featured artist in our Temporary Exhibition Series.
Reflections, is a visual journey across light and surface where the eye is teased and reality lies in the depth of other reality. La Grange artist, John Schaeffer, expresses his passion is to paint compositions where reflections, depth, and dramatic lighting are prominent. Figurative and automotive themes are his preferred subject matter, but he periodically enjoys creating nature-themed paintings as a form of relaxation An art curator once said “John’s tight realism is a delight to view. There is the constant of color, texture, and light on the surface of his paintings. He teases the viewer with the visual reality, making us curious about the story.”
His subjects draw the viewer as he depicts the everyday, the experiences to which we can all relate. He tells us about the day at the beach, the friends we see on the street, the automobile we dream about and the landscapes of America. He speaks of the beauty in the common.
Much of his subject matter is dedicated to cars where he delights in the extreme mirrored stories found on the curving and molded surfaces on the vehicles. Here the warped and twisted images become puzzles and intriguing abstracts that delight the viewer as he crosses Schaeffer’s canvases.
Schaeffer has been creating acrylic paintings since 1965 and is a graduate of Texas State University with a degree in Commercial Art. After a successful career in education and the corporate world, he rekindled his passion for painting after a 35- year hiatus.
John is a member of Grandmasters of Fine Art. He has won numerous state, regional, and national awards for his painting and has been published in multiple publications. His work has been displayed in eighteen museums since 2017 and recently showing in The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky as part of the LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting Exhibit, an exhibit comprised of over 55 paintings by the 15 leading photorealists and hyperrealists in the world who specialize in automotive and motorcycles as their primary subject of choice.
The collection will be available for purchase at Found April 4-May 31, 2025.
