Stuart Schechter

Born and raised in Southfield, MI, artist Stuart Schechter was always a tinkerer. At Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, he decided to focus his creativity on mechanical engineering with a focus on robotics. The pull of creating three-dimensional objects that could move, evolve, and be controlled caused him to pursue further education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

After graduating, Schechter decided to explore the terrain where art and technology coincide more thoroughly. He studied sculpture and painting at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, MA, where he met Ralph Helmick, and for 13 years, they teamed to create public art that was fresh, innovative, and technically challenging with high aesthetic principles. The result was a substantial and diverse portfolio that includes epic portraiture by suspending 1000’s small portraits precisely in space  (such as Touch), a fighter jet assembled by suspending over 1200 mechanized butterflies and silk flowers, 19 sections of the human body fabricated from stained glass and suspended with welded steel ’drawings’ and a sculpture that uses 1600 motors to generate ever-changing portraits of local citizens using small portraits of those same citizens. Schechter is pursuing his own ideas and visions as a solo artist.