About the Artist:
HERRAT SOMMERHOFF was born in Dessau, Germany (known for the "Bauhaus" Art School) and educated in Bremen, Germany. -- In the United States she attended the Art Students' League in New York, as well as taking fine arts courses at Bergen Community College and the Art Center of Northern New Jersey.
She has exhibited her two and three-dimensional artwork widely in museums, galleries and corporate spaces in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut on the East Coast, as well as showing outdoor sculpture in Steamboat Springs and Oak Creek, Colorado.
Her website www.recycled-into-art.com shows her early work, utilizing found cardboard and Styrofoam packing material, while www.herratsommerhoff.com features more recent paintings, collages and artwork on traffic control boxes. Her stucco sculptures are in several city and county parks, in the tri-state area, as well as on and around public libraries.
She spearheaded “The Doors of Roxbury”, a public and privately funded outdoor arts project, utilizing old doors.
Sommerhoff lectures and conducts workshops at art centers, schools, teen arts and outdoor festivals. She is a past member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), SALUTE TO WOMEN IN THE ARTS, and a trustee of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey in New Milford, NJ.
HERRAT SOMMERHOFF was born in Dessau, Germany (known for the "Bauhaus" Art School) and educated in Bremen, Germany. -- In the United States she attended the Art Students' League in New York, as well as taking fine arts courses at Bergen Community College and the Art Center of Northern New Jersey.
She has exhibited her two and three-dimensional artwork widely in museums, galleries and corporate spaces in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut on the East Coast, as well as showing outdoor sculpture in Steamboat Springs and Oak Creek, Colorado.
Her website www.recycled-into-art.com shows her early work, utilizing found cardboard and Styrofoam packing material, while www.herratsommerhoff.com features more recent paintings, collages and artwork on traffic control boxes. Her stucco sculptures are in several city and county parks, in the tri-state area, as well as on and around public libraries.
She spearheaded “The Doors of Roxbury”, a public and privately funded outdoor arts project, utilizing old doors.
Sommerhoff lectures and conducts workshops at art centers, schools, teen arts and outdoor festivals. She is a past member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), SALUTE TO WOMEN IN THE ARTS, and a trustee of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey in New Milford, NJ.
Please go to my Website WWW.recycled-into-art.com for additional information and two NY Times reviews about my recycled art.
