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Andrea Artz

Profile/CV

After 15-years working as an editorial photographer in Germany and New York, I went back to school to focus on my art and get my MFA degree at the University of Leeds.

Just recently I moved to London to find myself a studio. Being German and having lived in such diverse places as Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, New York and Leeds informs my art practice and way of looking at the world. The work has many layers and draws from my experience as a photographer, being a film geek, a reader of awfully long novels and admirer of old Master paintings.

Painting, drawing, printing techniques, installation and photography are combined in a playful manner and painting surfaces include photo-postcards, record-covers, billboards, windows and mirrors. The abstract and the specific fuse and both dream and the real world have the same value.

Often characters occupy my work and more or less they are in the mode of traveling somewhere. They are trapped inside their own memories and faced with the impossibility to connect or join with the other.

Website www.andreaartzwork.com