Nanci Schrieber-Smith

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Schrieber-Smith is a multidisciplinary artist whose processes have evolved full-circle from glass, to mixed media assemblage, to painting, and now back to glass.
Schrieber-Smith produces work in themed series such as the Paper-Doll series, the Neo-Mythology Series, the Working Women of the World series, the Glass Menagerie Series, the Glasscape Series and most recently the Animal Tales Series.

The Glass Menagerie series began in May 2013, when she married her assemblage, painting and glass skills resulting in a whole new sculptural direction with open-ended imagery and mystery.

The Animal Tales series couples her love of animals with her love of stories. Once again repurposing materials…this time books. The books are chosen to compliment the animal portrait. The portraits are a combination of glass painting and reverse painting on glass. The books are manipulated and adorned to compliment the painting which becomes affixed to the book.

It is her intention for the artworks from both the Glass Menagerie Series and the Animal Tales Series to give new purpose and new meaning to the debris of our civilization.

When not in the studio or in the classroom, Schrieber-Smith explores the...

Master of Fine Arts; California State University, Fullerton.

2018 Galaxy of Glass, Fallbrook Art Center, Fallbrook, California
2018 Glass Gala Auction National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Guild Exhibition, Fallbrook Art Center, Fallbrook, California
2018 Glass Gala Auction National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Galaxy of Glass 20th Anniversary Exhibition; Fallbrook Art Center, Fallbrook, California
2017 Glass Gala Auction National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2017 All Media Exhibition Irvine Fine Arts Center; Irvine California
2017 “Ideas Materializing into the Familiar” Seaver Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2016 “Try Everything” solo exhibition Mabee Art Gallery, Canton, Missouri
2016 “Glass Now 2016” National Liberty Museum,, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Faculty Biennial Fullerton College Fullerton, California
2016 “Clay and Glass 2016” Invitational, Healdsburg, California
2015 National Liberty Museum, Glass Now Gala Auction, Philadelphia, PA
2015 “Galaxy of Glass” Fallbrook Art Center, Fallbrook, California
2015 “2015 California Open. TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2015 "SPLENDOR" Exchange LA, Arts District Downtown Los Angeles
2015 "Teapots 9" an Invitational Exhibition; Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery; Pittsburgh PA.
2015 "VS" a collabor...