| 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.
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