Artist Kristen Schiele produces vibrant paintings and shadow boxes. Â Schiele richly layers her work both in her medium – paint, thread, collage – and in narrative. Â Her work merges indistinct structures and landscapes with rays and patterns of color as well as collaged human figures. Â Each piece seems at once to be about stories and tell one of its own. Â Speaking about the sources for her layers of images she says:
“I do keep a sketchbook. I also have a library of images printed out, some scanned in from libraries. They are from years of collecting. I get ideas and start folders of images for different paintings. I narrow the folders down into a show.” [via]
