Andrea Loefke
Art Teacher at Studio in a School
- Role
- Art Teacher at Studio in a School
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andrea Loefke
Andrea Loefke is a German-born sculptor and installation artist with a Masters degree in art education from University of Leipzig, Germany, and an MFA in sculpture from Ohio State University, Columbus. After moving to New York in 2003, she was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) and a one-year studio fellowship at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY). Loefke has shown extensively in over thirty exhibitions throughout the United States, and Germany. Notable venues include: Islip Art Museum (East Islip, NY), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), Heidelberger Kunstverein (Heidelberg, Germany), Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), Michael Steinberg Gallery (New York, NY), Kasia Kay Art Projects (Chicago, IL), Galerie Schuster (Frankfurt, Germany), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College (Old Westbury, NY), Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN), Farbraum at Radialsystem (Berlin, Germany) and Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY).Loefke\'s vivid multimedia assemblages in solo exhibitions have received critical recognition from a number of publications including Artforum, Sculpture, Brooklyn Rail, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Juliet. The May 2008 issue of Sculpture featured an extended interview with British art critic Paul Black. That same year Loefke completed a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, Nebraska) and a collaborative performance project, “Ausflug ins Gruene”, with the University of Michigan. 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 in March 2010. Commissioned early 2012, Loefke completed a large-scale, two-dimensional work for Central Park Place (New York, NY). In November 2013, she exhibited her so fare largest and most elaborate installation at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York.
Experience
Art Teacher
Jan 2014 — Present
Kindergarten and Primary School
Education
Leipzig University
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Art- and Physical Education
1994 — 2000
The Ohio State University
MFA, Sculpture
2000 — 2003
Skills
- Public Art
- Mixed Media
- Visual Arts
- Figurative Art
- Sculpture
- Collage
- Fine Art
- Painting
- Curating
- Art Exhibitions
- Installation Art
- Watercolor
- Oil Painting
- Contemporary Art
- Galleries
- Museums
- Studio Art
- Drawing
- Photography
- Art Education
- Art
- Acrylic
- Art History
- Field Installation
- University Teaching
- Printmaking
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