A Midwestern girl with a hearty Midwestern work ethic, C.L.Meisinger graduated with a B.A. in art from the University Wisconsin Stevens Point in 2005. Immediately after graduating, C.L found her way to Munich where she participated in her first international art exhibition and spent 4 weeks living in a basement studio finishing illustrations for a book, published in 2006.

Since then, she has diligently devoted herself to her studio work while peddling her collection halfway across the nation for exhibition. Her work has shown in more and less prestigious group and solo exhibitions across the Midwest and on the West Coast.

C.L.’s work remains distinct despite constant changes in her aesthetic and preferred working media. She is impelled to create a visual commentary on contemporary culture and society as a means to engage both herself and the viewer directly in the pulse of modern life.

C.L was awarded the McKnight/ARAC grant in 2007 to work on developing her silkscreen repertoire in Chicago, IL and was granted an artist in residency from 2006-2008. She is currently living in Las Vegas and sucking up a myriad of inspirational content from discarded waste on street corners and observations of a grossly conducted society.

C.L. strives to create something new in a culture inundated with contemporary art. To accomplish this objective, she finds it requires both ingenuity and a willingness to be lost and afraid before hurling herself into challenges that push beyond the comforts of the past.

Since her first drawing at age 5 she looks back with no regret.

She is proud to participate in Found’s Spacial Reconstruction Project in the summer of 2008, where she will collaborate with and direct a small cast of actors and musicians to create a dramatic and interactive performance piece based on the topics of gender, belief, and stereotyping.