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Schiele’s paintings are of environments that dissect a power structure underlying our society physically and psychologically. Recounting lives of alienation beamed through TV sets, her dark and vibrant, saturated canvases are set in hotel lobbies, ski and hunting lodges, back yard nights, and Midwestern living rooms. They divulge a subtext of role-playing, what it means to be a part of it, what it means to challenge it. Having lived in both the United States and Germany, Kristen Schiele’s inspiration comes from the industrial landscapes of the Midwest and post-war, East Berlin. Her working method of numerous paint layers directly relates to cinema, graphic novel storytelling, Victorian stage sets, and stop-animation cells that choreograph space and time. The use of architecture is thus a record and reconstruction of our economic, ideological, and societal states-of-being that reluctantly maintain order at the same time that it is seemingly unable to contain it.
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2007
“Gothicolor†New General Catalogue, solo exhibition, New York, NY
“High Five; Emerging Art in America†curated by Ben Haywood, Regine Basha, Matthew Higgs DristanKennedy, Kathryn Kanjo, Juror David Page, Los Angeles, CA
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Open Studio, New York, NY
“Draw†Gallery Lombardi, curated by Erik Foss, Austin, TX
“Traumulus (The Dreamer)†solo exhibition CWB Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Scope Art Fair, Gallery Sixtyseven Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
“Escape NY†group exhibition, CWB Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Red Desert†curated by Sarah Trigg, Heskin Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
“Homestead†Solo Project Room in the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
“AIM 26†Bronx Museum of Art, catalogue, New York, NY
2005
“Mother Wit†Chashama-awarded Time Square storefront installation, New York, NY
“Art Friends†ArtSTRAND Gallery Provincetown, MA
“Paintings and a Virtual Heartthrob†solo, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Shreve, Crump & Lowe, group show, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Art Association Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown, MA
2004
“Art Star Sausage Factory†Debs and Co. Gallery, New York, NY
Exit Art, Serkan Ozkaya exhibition, New York, NY
“Must Art†Group Exhibition, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY
2003 to 1998
Fleischerei, Group exhibition, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
Signal 66, group exhibition, Washington, DC
Filesharing, “Detail and Incidentâ€, solo show, Berlin, Germany
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) Portland, Oregon
Corcoran Museum of Art, “Year of the Print†Washington, DC
Gallery K, “Miss America†Washington, DC
Awards &
Recognition:
2006 Workspace, Residency Program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Bronx Artist In the Marketplace
2005 Chashama AREA award, Times Square
“New American Paintings†issue No. 62 curated by Bill Arning, MIT
2004 Provincetown Work Center Winter Residency
1998 Goethe Institute Scholarship for German, Berlin, Germany
Bibilography
2007
“Gothicolor at New General Catalog,†Brooklyn Rail by Shane McAdams May 2007
“Kristen Schiele: Gothicolor†Trace Magazine May 2007
“Traumulus†Berliner Morgenpost by Barbara Jaenichen, January 2007
“Traumulus†NY Arts Magazine, by Kristen Schiele, February 2007
“Fountain of Youth†NY Arts Magazine, by Kimberly Bradley, February 2007
2006
“Homestead†Soap Factory exhibition on KTCA/KTCI Minneapolis television
“Red Desert†color catalogue, Heskin Contemporary
“New American Paintings†issue No. 62 curated by Bill Arning, MIT
“Floating Galleries: Defining Space,†NY Arts September, by Emily Steinfeld, June 2006
“AIM 26†Bronx Museum color catalogue
“For Hopeful Artists, the Search to Be Just Themselves,†The New York Times, by Benjamin Genocchio, April 9
“Hitting the Mark†NY Arts Magazine, by Ryan Quigley, June 2006
“Sillman, Hesse, Walker†Choire Sicha, New York Observer, April 6 2006
2005
“When the Show is More than Art†www.resolve40.com, by Linda di Gusta,
“Kristen Schiele at FAWC†Provincetown Banner, by Sue Harrison
“Fine Arts Gathering†Boston Globe, by Carol Beggyu and Mark Shanahan
2004
“Time Out for Creativity†Provincetown Banner, by Ann Wood
Education:
1995 MFA American University, Washington, DC
1993 BFA Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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