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Artist Statement:
My work is a consideration
and investigation of the
journey of physical identity.
I am inspired by social
consciousness and body
politics, the feminine
experience, and the
relationship one has between
their body and its
surroundings. I am interested
in issues related to personal
boundaries, as well as
cultural boundaries placed on
the body, and the function of
the boundary as creating
dependence of one side on
another for its existence. I
am also interested in the
concept of mapping as a record
of the body’s organic nature
functioning as a guided form
through space and time.
Through these investments, I
find myself making work that
is both obsessive and organic
in its forms, layers, and
processes. My interest in
certain materials, such as
ink, translucent papers, and
collage, informs and effects
the development of an image,
expressing concepts of
reaction, repetition, and
reinterpretation, which
relates to the important
process of tracing in my work.
Tracing is a record of the
past definition of a route,
and a re-experience of a
direction. I see my process of
using tracing as following a
predetermined path in order to
find new ways of considering
the identity of the source.
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Artist Exhibitions:
2008 Make Your Own History,
group exhibition, The Blatz
Building,
Milwaukee, WI
2007 The Second Sex Series
Exhibition, solo show,
Bailiwick Theater,
Chicago, IL
Parts and Labor
Collective Group Show, The
Loft,Chicago, IL
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The Touch Project,
solo show, Zen Shiatsu,
Evanston, IL
2006 The Hanukkah...
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Leah Schreiber Biography:
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Age
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30
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| Gender |
Female
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Postmodernism - (1975 - )
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Using concepts of reaction, repetition, and reinterpretation, painting provides me with me with a versatile outlet for a process-oriented studio practice. My current work produces personal images of bodily fantasy, as a reaction to the image of the body as produced by culturally understood modes of medical and biological instruction, their technical language and diagrammatical tools. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Leah Schreiber is a visual artist whose work uses the language of drawing in a variety of media, from acrylic painting to performance, to create reinterpretations of medical research and its methods. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Illinois State University, and her Master of Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was the visual art presenter at the 2002 Women's Studies Symposium in Normal, Illinois and has received multiple awards including the MJ Grant as well as a Marshall Frankel Foundation Fellowship. While living in Chicago, Schreiber worked as a Director and Instructor at Lillstreet Art Center and as an Artist-Teacher at The Marwen Foundation. She was an Artist-in-Residence at The Contemporary Artist Center in North Adams, Massachusetts and more recently at the American Geographical Society Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her active exhibition record includes shows in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Alaska, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Maine. Leah Schreiber currently teaches as an Associate Lecturer for the Department of Art and Design at Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and as an Adjunct Lecturer for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.
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