WILDFLOWER PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS
Lindsey Schreiber:
Roots and Reverence
ON VIEW IN THE GALLERY JAN 20 - MAR 3
ARTIST RECEPTION
Sat, Jan 31, 4pm - 6:30pm
Roots and Reverence reflects my lifelong search for home— through memory, renewed devotion, nearby landscapes, and the feminine energies that have nurtured and sustained me. Each painting is a meditation on belonging as a birthright, claimed or reclaimed. With inherent belonging comes peace, resonance, and self-sovereignty.
The work in this collection evolved from a 100-day project that I committed to early this year. My project was to create one small (6” x 6”) painting on paper every day for 100 days. In this daily practice, guided by curiosity and intuition, I found myself meditating on themes of home, comfort, tradition, and fixed beliefs as well as ambiguity, magic, mysticism, the heretical, and the ways we find and create meaning. I love thinking about how these opposing energies overlap, how what we perceive is a matter of the lens we look through and how that lens, if we are willing, can be fluid.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As an enthusiastic and lifelong dabbler, intellectual generalist, and devoted explorer of creative side paths, I am happiest following whatever ideas sparkle at the edges of my attention. Artmaking has become the container where my scattered curiosities can gather, connect, and take form. The creative process opens space for play, intuition, and exploration. Working with paint invites my nebulous conceptions to connect with the physical world of pigment, surface, and gesture: pushing, scraping, mixing, and layering paint and inviting what wants to come into being.
The work I do as a therapist informs the way I see the world and the way I approach my creative work. I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be human, the stories we tell ourselves, and the meaning we make of it all. I am fascinated by the nature of existence and the question of what it is each of us is here to do. Mystery, spirit, shadow, and dreams are consistent themes in my work. I see all of these as potential portals into a more expansive understanding.
I am always in search of beauty, and often see what is possible, not just what is there. With my creative work, I am attempting to capture something pervasive yet elusive, a knowing beyond understanding. I want to point the viewer towards something beautiful, or a new way of seeing.
ARTIST BIO
Lindsey Schreiber is a Taos-based studio artist whose evolving body of work explores the space between the world as it appears and the worlds we imagine—unseeable, yet perhaps possible. Her creative process includes time for spacing out and following rabbit holes, as well as aimless exploration of places both familiar and unfamiliar. This openness invites chance, playfulness, and discovery into the work. Pulling fragments and images from memories, dreams, and imagination, Schreiber weaves visual narratives that invite wonder, curiosity and delight. In addition to being an artist, Schreiber is a Licensed Professional Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LPCC) in private practice. Both her creative and clinical work are informed by a deep curiosity, about people and their stories, and about consciousness, the natural world, and what it is to be human.