Private View: Thea Schultz Solo Exhibition

Name: Private View: Thea Schultz Solo Exhibition
Released: 2026-08-28
Duration: 2 h

<p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;">Free Private View of local artist Thea Schultz's exhibition at Reading Biscuit Factory! <p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;"> <p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;">Schultz’s work reimagines classical representations of women, reclaiming figures historically cast as passive muses. Drawing on Greek mythology, European art history, and literature, she elevates these subjects to positions of empowerment and agency, presenting them as active, divine figures inhabiting vividly layered, fluid worlds.<p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;"><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;">Her figures radiate in golds, iridescence, magentas, purples, and blues, evoking both the divine and the contemplative. Through process-led ink drawing and translucent applications of paint, they emerge within ethereal oases where solitude becomes a source of power, allowing them to exist freely within nature-bound realms. Recurring archways and overgrown plant forms suggest retreat and private existence within the landscape. Lily pads and bodies of water, historically sites of feminine tragedy, are reimagined as spaces of refuge and renewal.<p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;"><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;">Schultz invites us to reconsider women’s visual roles in art history, encouraging a return to the self beyond observation, expectation, and the visual frames that continue to shape how we are seen and how we see ourselves in the contemporary world.<p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;"> <p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31.5px; font-family: didot-w01-italic, serif; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;">Meet the artist and fellow creatives to explore the world of Thea's work PT2H2026-08-28Private View: Thea Schultz Solo Exhibition"Private View: Thea Schultz Solo Exhibition"

Private View: Thea Schultz Solo Exhibition

Showtimes

August 28, 7:00 pm