Trying to make a living as artist requires not just skills, but the willingness to serve your audience as well. Sometimes you need to create for of your surroundings, that change wherever you go, why it is so important to travel - --. Where can the artist express her creativity? The artist does not just need skill, but also emotions, which can be added to whatever she does.
I love to use art to educate others and myself. Through art, I harness visuals to make people stop, think and learn.
2008 Nov/Dec: Participation in exhibit "Through the Eyes of Love", in honor of the World AIDS Day, The Galleria, Fort Lauderdale; 2008 May: Participation in group exhibit "Faces of Immigration" at Bagley Housing, Detroit, 2007, April: Art Auction at Bagley Housing, 2007, March: Revelation of 4 canvases for GM headquarters. 2006, December: Group exhibit at Bagley Housing, Detroit 2006, May: Grant award to create artwork for the GM World Headquarters in Detroit 2006, March: Exhibition 'Now and Then' at Bagley Housing, Detroit 2005: Creation of the award winning book 'Images in Stone. Detroit ' The first 300 years.' 40 pen and ink renderings of Detroit's beautiful architecture w/historical text, sponsored by MotorCities National Heritage Area and the Detroit Area Art Deco Society. 2004 August until current: Coordination of exhibits at the 'International Mini Café', Detroit 2004 August, September Exhibition at the 'International Mini Café', Detroit 2004 January 'September: completion of a Pen & Ink portrait of the Cities of the Grosse Pointes, to be published as book w/text and 25 drawings mid-2006. 2003 September Exhibition in and Opening of P.L.A.C.E.S.-The Gallery. 2003 Participation in an exhibition at the Detroit Club 2002 Illustrations for Childrens' Book 'The Flop'. An alien researches earth. 2002 Participation in an exhibition at Bagley Housing, Detroit, MI Tall Ship Series (Westcoast) Display at the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit and other Detroit facilities 2001 Series of Tall Ships (14 pieces), exhibited during the Detroit 300 Celebration (the Landing of Tall Ships at Hart Plaza), June 2001 at Novus Art Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI. 2000-2001 Grosse Pointe, MI: series of high scale real-estates, most of them on a commission basis Series of Detroit City Portraits 1999-2000 Travels through Europe, particularly England and France, Images in pen&ink 'focus on the study of architecture. 1998-1999 Series of Nudes (22), Acrylic on Canvas 1991-1998 Study of Fine Art at the University of Siegen 1988-1991 Fine Art as a major in high school 1978-1990 prizes in several regional art competitions in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 1972 Born in Germany into a family of artists. Studies began from age 3, when my parents, taught me various techniques, including figurative drawing (wet & dry media), various printing techniques (incl. woodcuts, linol-block-print, copper-& aluminum etching, soapstone sculpture, batik, clay)
