Bio
Photographer Astrid Reischwitz’ portfolio, Street Art, incorporates her fascination with street art murals and the diversity of urban life in the midst of it. The focus of her latest work has moved to a more personal perspective where she creates intimate portraits of her subjects through their everyday objects and personal spaces in her ongoing series: The Bedroom Project and Portrait Tableaus.
Solo exhibitions of Street Art include: the Griffin Museum of Photography; Photographic Resource Center at Boston University (NEO); Firehouse Center for the Arts Newburyport; Munroe Center for the Arts Lexington, and Boston Public Library. The Bedroom Project, which brings intimate spaces into public view, 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; CAA National Prize Show and Red; PhotoPlace Gallery VT; Bedford Free Public Library; Brush Gallery Lowell; Concord Art Association, Frances N. Roddy Open Competition; and DeCordova Museum School Gallery.
Reischwitz curates art exhibitions at the Bedford MA Free Public Library, most recently the group show Portraits, as well as featured exhibitions including Caleb Cole (Other People’s Clothes), Nick Johnson and Sus Iserbyt (Solitude), and Gillian Frazier (Transitions). She is a juried member of the Cambridge Art Association.
A graduate of the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, with a degree 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, Boston, DeCordova Museum School, and Photography Atelier at Lesley University and Griffin Museum of Photography.
