Andrea Löfke, German-born artist, focuses her work on mixed-media sculptures and installations as well as works on paper. She constructs conglomerates of material and form, working from innumerable sources, both everyday and all-natural. She is particularly interested in the tension between the natural, the artificial and man-made; the uneven, untamed, disorderly and the controlled, immaculate and decorative. Found natural elements often go through a transformation process where they take on a new sense of purpose and often portend a sense of quiet foreboding. The result is a playful, yet mysterious landscape, enticing the viewer into visual narrative journeys. Andrea’s artwork frequently engages with themes of environment, memory and culture.

 

Andrea Loefke lives and works in Brooklyn and Upstate New York. She has received critical recognition from a number of publications including Artforum, Sculpture, Brooklyn Rail, Wall Street International and Frankfurter Allgemeine. In 2009, Loefke was commissioned to create a site-specific, permanent installation for the SØR Rusche Collection in Berlin, Germany. She received the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and was awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Smack Mellon and the Bemis Center. Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibition in Germany, the US and Canada.