Jeffrey Schrier

My work often involves intense observation of nature that I interpret in relation to cultural phenomena, social trauma or history, in part, owing to the WWII bombing of Pearl Harbor, my birthday legacy. I form these experiments into large-scale paintings, drawings, assemblage, sculpture and mixed media works. In response to recent cataclysmic storms and natural disasters, my most recent paintings are made outdoors, directly impacted by rain, hail and wind, and respond to the tension between the force of nature and contemporary interpretation of ancient Creation text. Also in progress is a series of 7 foot drawings of flowers after they have bloomed, drawn on rough, plant fiber paper, as well as several large scale installation works.
WINGS of WITNESS, UNFINISHED FLIGHT: My most ambitious undertaking, is a series of monumental assemblage installations constructed with the assistance of sixty thousand participants, through artist residencies I conduct at museums and educational institutions. With teams of assistants, I’ve configured the components made in my workshops into ten massive, site-specific wing-like expanses to date. This body of work uses the shape of wings to symbolically elevate lost life resulting from genocide. Un...

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
CALARTS, Los Angeles CA. BFA

October 7, 2017- January 28 2018. Give US the Vote, Arts Westchester Gallery, White Plains NY

September 8, 2016- June 30 2017. PAINT BY NUMBERS, at the HUCJIR Museum, NY, NY.

June 15-24, 2016. "Poéticas de lo Múltiple" /Art and Social Justice, MIDE, the Museum Internacional de Electrografia at the University of Castilla, La Mancha, Spain. Sponsor, UNESCO.

Oct 2013-Dec 2014, Art at the Core, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA

Nov 2012, Waldsee, 1944. Millenaris Park, Budapest, Hungary

Sept-Oct 2011, ROLLING STONE and the Art of the Record Review.
Society of Illustrators, Museum of American Illustration, NY, NY

Nov 2010 March 2011, Jeffrey Schrier / WRECKTIFY. H-ART Gallery, Peekskill, NY

May, 2005, Waldsee, 1944. Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin Germany

May, 2005, WINGS of WITNESS / Jeffrey Schrier. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

Jan-May, 2005, Jeffrey Schrier: Serif/Serafim, Out of Emptiness. Yeshiva University Museum, NY, NY (Chelsea)