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For more than two decades, Barbara Schreiber has explored dystopia through small, colorful paintings and drawings that appear light-hearted at first glance but often have disturbing undertones.

Schreiber has exhibited her work at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, PS 1, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, DiRT Gallery in Los Angeles, Amerika Hauses throughout Germany, the Sorbonne and numerous other museums and galleries in the U.S. and Europe. She is listed in the current edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America.

"My work," says Schreiber, "is an ongoing narration, the story of whatever happens to cross my path. If my paintings have any political or sociological significance, it is almost an accident, a byproduct of observation. Much of my current work is about death, small animals, things bursting into flames and stuff in the backyard. A lot of it depicts the place between expectation and reality."

To support her art habit, Schreiber works as a freelance writer and editor. In past incarnations, she was associate editor of Art Papers, a staff member at Nexus Contemporary Art Center (now Atlanta Contemporary Art Center), a crew member for the Atlanta Cyclorama conservation and a job placement counselor at Georgia State University.

Schreiber was born in Baltimore, Maryland, attended Atlanta College of Art and graduated magna cum laude from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. An Atlanta resident from 1977 to 2004, she now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.