Compiled by The Bedford Citizen
Photographer Astrid Reischwitz’ most recent achievement is a ‘Best in Show’ award for her entry in BLUE, it’s more than a color – New England Biennial, an open juried show at the Cambridge Art Association. Her work Kartoffelroden (Harvesting Potatoes) is installed at the Kathryn Schultz gallery, 25 Lowell Street, through January 5, 2016.
There will be an artists’ reception at there, and at University Place Gallery, 124 Mt. Auburn Street in Cambridge, from 7 to 9 pm on Thursday, December 3.
Beginning in January, work from Reischwitz’s The Bedroom Project will be featured in The Memory Palace, an exhibit at the Danforth Museum in Framingham. She will give a gallery talk at 3 pm on Sunday, January 10.
About Reischwitz’ Work
Stories from the Kitchen Table explores her heritage and the meaning of home. In The Bedroom Project she creates intimate portraits, bringing personal spaces into public view. In The Gift of Regret she turns the camera inward in an exploration of her own history and values. An earlier portfolio, Street Art, reflected outward towards street art murals and the diversity of urban life.
Solo exhibitions of Street Art include: the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester; Photographic Resource Center at Boston University (NEO); Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport; Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington; and the Boston Public Library.
The Bedroom Project was featured at Cambridge Art Association (CAA). Expectations, an earlier black and white series focusing on the shapes of pregnant women, was exhibited at Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, Concord MA.
Reischwitz’s photographs have appeared in juried group exhibitions at the Danforth Museum of Art, Off the Wall and New England Photography Biennial; Cambridge Art Association’s National Prize Show, Red, Blue (Best in Show), and Platinum (Best in Show); Photo Place Gallery, VT (Jurors’ Award); Gallery Seven, Maynard MA; Bedford Free Public Library; Brush Gallery Lowell; Concord Art Association (Prize for Best Photography), Frances N. Roddy Open Competition (Third Prize); Houston Center for Photography; Massachusetts Convention Center with Photographic Resource Center Boston; and DeCordova Museum School Gallery. She received a Silver Medal Award in the San Francisco International Photography Exhibition and was selected as one of Top 100 for Review Santa Fe Photo Festival. She is also a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist. Her photographs have been published in the Boston Globe, the Lexington Minuteman, the Newburyport Current, the Bedford Minuteman, Armenian Weekly, and other publications. Her work was also published online on LensCulture and appeared on Lenscratch, What Will You Remember, and 3200K online blogs, as well as Cambridge Art Association blog and Echoes of Pop in the New Millennia blogspot. Her portfolio Stories from the Kitchen Table is featured on Syracuse University’s Family.Life. Project webpage.
Reischwitz curates art exhibitions at the Bedford MA Free Public Library, most recently the group show Portraits, as well as featured exhibitions including Dick Simon (kNOw T-H-E-M), Caleb Cole (Other People’s Clothes), and Nick Johnson/Sus Iserbyt (Solitude).
A juried member of the Cambridge Art Association, she is a graduate of the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, with a PhD in chemistry. Reischwitz began her study of photography at the International Center of Photography in New York soon after moving to the United States. After relocating to the Boston area she continued her studies at the New England School of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, DeCordova Museum School, and Photography Atelier at Lesley University and Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA. She also holds a certificate in Arts Administration from New York University
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