Artist Statement

Dennis Schaub was born in Lima Ohio in 1977. He grew up in a small mid western town until age 12, when his parents moved the family to a small farm. This rural setting would shape his work in later years. He began attended The Ohio State University in the fall of 1995 with an undeclared major. Upon taking a beginning drawing class his instructor urged him to take a digital media class being offered for the first time at OSU. This would be the beginning of his calling towards "Art & Technology". The combination of Fine Arts and Computer Technology was a comfortable one for him, in that it was a combination of being creative or "artsy" and smart or "geekish". In the fall 1998 Dennis was accepted into the "Arts & Technology" college at The Ohio State University. His work mostly focused on the utilitarian, it was useful, meaningful, simple, his own, reflecting his mid western values & rural sense. A combination of usefulness and raw creativity, balances between the geek and artisan. His "Yellow Exhibition" culminated his college career in 2001 at the The Ohio Union in Columbus. A presentation of a multitude of works from holography and 3D digital images to sculpture and quilting, the Yellow Exhibition would recognize that his work doesn't follow a specific medium, but is a balancing act of two worlds. To date he has worked in the mediums of wood, plaster, stained glass, snow, sand, drawing, painting, photography, holography, computer graphics, print media and outdoor advertising. His current work focuses on high relief, painting with objects or "assemblage".