As a young art student, Karl Umlauf was motivated by several forms of subject matter. One was the structural geological forms of land. The other was the complexity of machinery and piping systems found in petroleum refineries and the spectacular environment of steel mills and salvage yards. This imagery was and continues to be his subject matter. He modifies and reinvents these sources, infusing them with personal creative expressions.

Being surrounded by paintings, drawings and sculptures created by his father, the sculptor Charles Umlauf, was also a strong influence on a way of viewing and translating his motivational sources. Assisting his father in the studio left a strong impression of how challenging an artist"s life can be.

Karl Umlauf joined the Baylor Art Department faculty in 1989.

MFA, Cornell University
BFA, University of Texas at Austin
Summer School of Music and Art, Yale University, Norfolk, CT., 1960

The multi-planographic sewuences of surface imagery and color are used to create polarities, properties of tension, measured rhythms and surface energies, indicative of a visual form of physics. If the work appears to have an abstract yet unique personal identity and if it provides a distinct physical presence, then I have succeeded in establishing my visual signature.

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