Alden Schutte
contemporary art
During a highly successful 40-year
career in Chicago and as CEO / Executive
Creative Director of the Schutte Group,
Alden's powerful communication solutions earned him over 100 National Awards for creative and marketing excellence.
His innate sense of spatial design, color and creative imaging helped develop numerous award-winning brand and product campaigns for nationally recognized companies.
Today that same skill is seen in Alden's
abstract art interpretation paintings.
Art that gives the viewer a feeling for the subject through the use of bold textures, flowing acrylic colors and dynamic design.
Alden's inspirations come from his life experiences, travel locations. patterns
in nature, thoughts and feelings.
With a unique ability to blend abstractionism
with a strong design sense, Alden's art is not just seen, but felt.
Buffalo Advertising Man of the Year 1978
Buffalo State University Hall of Fame 1991
Buffalo State University
Distinguished Alumnus 1992
Schutte Work History:
Post, Keyes-Gardner Chicago, Illinois V P Creative Director
The Schutte Group Buffalo, N. Y. CEO & Executive Creative Director
HealthNow NY Sr VP Chief Communications Officer
Alden Schutte Contemporary Artist Estero, Fl.
Schutte Art Showings:
2014 Miromar Art-on-the-Lake, Miromar Fl.
2015 Miromar Art-on-the-Lake, Miromar Fl.
2016 Center for the Arts Juried Exhibition Bonita Springs Fl.
2017 Center for the Arts Juried Exhibition Bonita Springs Fl.
2018 River Art Gallery Juried Show North Tonawanda, N.Y
2018 Sanibel Big Arts Juried Show Sanibel Fl.
2019 Center for the Arts Juried Show Bonita Springs Fl.
2019 River Art Gallery Juried Show North Tonawanda, N.Y.
2020 Juried Art Show 1st Presbyterian Church Bonita Springs Fl.
2021 River Art Gallery Holiday Exhibition North Tonawanda N.Y.
2021 Juried Art Exhibition 1st Presbyterian Church Bonita Springs Fl..
2022 COCO Art Gallery Juried Exhibition Estero Fl.
2022 COCO Art Gallery Juried Exhibition Naples Fl.
2023 Center for the Arts Juried Exhibition Bonita Springs FL
2024 Center for the Arts Juried Exhibition Bonita Springs FL
2025 Arts Bonita Juried Exhibition Bonita Springs Fl.
2025 Visual Arts Center Juried Exhibition Punta Gorda Fl.
Education
State University at Farmingdale, Long Island, NY AAS Advertising
Buffalo State University, Buffalo, N.Y. BS - Education/Fine Arts