Robert Schefman A Retrospective of Painting

Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: Schefman did not have art instruction in high school; he worked at both drawing and sculpture on his own. He entered college with an interest in medicine, having previously worked at a hospital where was introduced to surgery, and trained to perform autopsies. He began his serious art studies at Michigan State University. This eventually led him to pursue a graduate degree from the prestigious sculpture program at the University of Iowa. Later, living in New York, when he started to think about painting his two-dimensional representations began with the mindset of a sculptor; he had a profound interest in the structure of things and this is what imbues his paintings with their extreme formal assurance.