Experienced states of reverie in ordinary circumstances of life are the impetus for this current body of work. The imagery and marks contained in Schriefer’s paintings are extracted from moments of awareness that he sees and absorbs in the world around him. The environment is his starting point and guides him towards making particular formal decisions in the paintings. Schriefer’s states of reverie involve an experience of suspension—suspension in time and suspension from his surrounding space, ultimately evoking similar states of suspension in his paintings for the viewer. In addition, his work investigates process and materials, and the result of a set of procedures, through both intuition and reason, in which the method and order of construction can be interpreted from the material surface.
Trew Schriefer was born in 1978 in Moline, Illinois. He graduated with a BFA in painting and drawing from Northern Illinois University in 2007. He is a recent 2010 graduate from Illinois State University with an MFA in painting and drawing. He currently teaches at Illinois State University.
