I grew up in a hyper-creative environment, with both my father and mother as college professors of music. Early on, I was exposed to a rich artistic cultural life, with my father’s cutting-edge experimental electronic music and my mother’s classical operatic work. From 1965 through 1977, I spent summers studying music and art at the National Music Camp (NMC), Interlochen, Michigan, where my parents both taught. My interest in pushing visual boundaries led me to study architecture at Texas Tech University, College of Engineering, where I tested my belief in merging art with architecture, while studying art and film in addition to the core curriculum. My architectural thesis was selected to represent the university for their annual review by the National Architectural Accreditation Board.

From 1988 through 2021, I practiced as an architect registered in eight states with prestigious firms in Boston and Dallas. Expanding my creative thinking through formalism with my pursuit of New Media Art, I continued using computers as my canvas for painting. Recognized early in 1996 for my New Media digital works by The University of Texas at Dallas, I gave a dedicatory talk at the opening of UTD’s New Media Arts Lab. The following year, I was invited to the Board of Advisors for New Media at UTD. In 2005, I presented at the National American Institute of Architects convention in Las Vegas on media and its influences with architects.

2008 brought significant changes as I stepped down from my director position as Principal Architect for a fifty-person architectural firm in Boston to open liquidoranges STUDIO. The original vision was to integrate art with architecture through product design. Thinking about art rugs, art tableware, and architectural art glass, I developed a process for working with traditional weavers to create hand-tufted New Media art rugs. I was invited to be a keynote speaker at DomoTex Middle East, 2009, in Dubai, UAE, where I presented my processes for creating artworks on the computer and conveying to weavers around the world the essence, detail, and soul of my art as woven into art rugs. My work in digital glazing fine bone china from my electronic artwork files produced four prototypes premiered in Atlanta in 2010 at the AmericasMart show. And, working with an evolving laminated glass process, I began incorporating artworks into architectural art glass.

Since 2021, I devote my creative life as a digital painter, producing archival pigment-signed museum prints, fine art canvas, art glass, and as dye-sublimation on aluminum. My artworks are on display in public and private collections, and I continue to submit new works to juried exhibitions.

Reese Schroeder is listed on the Techspressionist Visual Artist Index