………..once upon a time there was a world: whimsical, humorous, credulous, intimate, alien, glittering and obscure. In Loefke’s work, fictional narratives, dream worlds with anchors in the real, occupy a space between familiarity and fantasy. The groupings of objects and their placement in space become a journey of discovery. These fairy-like worlds are complex structures, resulting in playful, mysterious landscapes often with a strong sense of quite foreboding – the primary narrative holds a secondary within. She develops pathways for the viewer to travel. She links micro with macro worlds, the 2-dimensional with the 3-dimensional, encourages notions of irritation, and implied movement of the objects, and asks the viewer to relate oneself to the objects and the situations they present. Loefke’s main interest is to cultivate our human ability to fantasize, freely associate, create, be irrational and subjective and to allow an all-embracing experience.
Andrea Loefke is a German born sculptor/installation artist with a Masters degree in Art Education from Leipzig, Germany and an MFA in Sculpture from Ohio State University, in Columbus. After moving to New York, she immediately was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, as well as a one-year studio residency at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. Since then she has shown extensively at different venues in New York, as well as across the United States and Germany. Numerous reviews in Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, and Frankfurter Allgemeine have accompanied her solo exhibitions. Forthcoming is a lengthy feature and interview in Sculpture Magazine, anticipated in their 2008 May issue. During the summer months of this year, Loefke will be a resident at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.
Currently Loefke is working as an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
