George Schroeder

George Schroeder, an archived artist as of 2023, primarily worked as both a painter and collage artist. Schroeder earned his BFA and MFA from Kent State University and pursued art over an impressive 50-year span. George was a professor of art at Hiram College from 1962 to 2006. He taught art and art history and served as chairman of the art department for many years. He married fellow archived artist, Susan Schroeder, in August of 1962, the same year he began teaching at Hiram College.

Schroeder’s art was, and still is, sought after by Northeast Ohio galleries. Pieces appeared in every National Midyear Review of the Butler Institute of American Art from 1996 to 2010. Even after his death, the Butler Institute continues to include his art in their annual midyear review. As a member of the National Collage Society, Schroeder also exhibited outside Ohio, including the Second Street Gallery in Virginia, the Tubac Center for the Arts in Arizona, the Covington Arts Gallery of Kentucky, and various galleries across Pennsylvania.

Most notably, he brought his solo show to the Maison de la Culture d’Orleans in Orleans, France in 1983. He held his show, 100 Works on Paper Benefit Show, at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn New York in 2003 and 2004. Other New York shows include Signals That Gather: Paintings by Jack McWhorter, Bridgett O’Donnell, George Schroeder, and Nancy Seibert at the Painting Center of New York City.

As a painter and collage artist, the subtlety and ambiguity of “structure, space, and surface” interested Schroeder. Almost contradictorily, he discussed his use of stark clarity, saying this of his art, “I work with self-imposed limitations—straight lines, vertical and horizontal axes…As with paint, my goal [with collage] is to achieve a coherent organization in each piece…I hope their bold patterns, careful balance, and subtly worked surfaces command and hold attention.”