My name is Antje Roitzsch. I am an artist working in many media. Currently I am in a deep dive to explore hanging, moving sculptures- the art mobile
Biography
Antje grew up in Germany in a family where a strong emphasis was placed on being creative and making things with your hands.
Her education at a Waldorf School gave her a broad exposure to creativity and a woking knowledge of many artistic skills. This is where the seeds of her approach to form were born and gave her the language that has been deeply embedded in her work ever since.
While attending technical school, where she explored graphic arts and scenic design for theatre, a chance encounter with a goldsmith exhibit lead her to a 4 year apprenticeship.
Working with a master goldsmith honed her solid skills and is at the root of her precise and exact craftsmanship.
In 1988 a grant from the Carl Duisburg Society brought her home to Maine, where for the next 16 years she designed and fabricated anticlastic jewelry with Michael Good Designs.
In 2005, a 7 month immersion in New York City changed the course of her artistic journey. It ignited the desire to explore her own artistic expression and she took the leap of faith and set out on her own.
Following her curiosity, she opened her eyes with photography, put her hands into clay and experimented with bronze casting.
Called to a larger scale, she applied all her skills to the creations of organic, flowing sculptures, including the 8 foot tall “Uprising”.
Ever expanding in her expression, her work is taking flight and she is currently working on sculptural mobiles.
Here is an Artist portrait about Antje Roitzsch
RESUME
Antje Roitzsch
SELF-EMPLOYED:
2004- present Designing Jewelry, Sculpture and Photography
2001-present Licensed Massage Therapist and Shiatsu Practitioner
1990-1999 Designed, fabricated, marketed line of anticlastic jewelry and other one of a kind original designs to
galleries and private buyers
EMPLOYED:
1990-2004 Michael Good Designs: Goldsmith and Designer
Produced jewelry in anticlastic raising; designed bronze
sculptures
1990 Professor Friedrich Becker ( Dusseldorf Germany)
Journeyman Goldsmith
EDUCATION:
1984-1988 Goldschmiede Classen: (Essen, Germany)
Goldsmith Apprenticeship, Graduated Most Honored
1982-1984 School of Design (Fachoberschule fur Gestaltung, Essen Germany) Diversified Study in Design;
Practicum Placement in Theater Backdrop/Scenery Design
GRANT:
1988-1989 Awarded Full One Year Grant from Carl Duisberg Society
(Germany) to study the technique of anticlastic raising at Michael Good Designs: in Maine, USA
COMPETITIONS:
1998 International Pearl Design Competition: Awarded third Place in Freestyle (Japan)
1996 Nice Award Finalist- Earring Design
TEACHING:
2006- present Teaching Adult Ed classes and private students in jewelry techniques, Rockport ME
1993 -1995 and
2009-present Teaching workshops in Anticlastic Raising in Germany.
1999 Teaching workshop in Anticlastic Raising at Brookfield Craft
Center, CT, USA
1997 Teaching workshop in Anticlastic Raising in Japan
1996 Assistant for Heikki Seppa“Shellform” 3 week workshop, at Haystack, Maine, USA
1996 Assistant for Betty Helen Longi “Shellform” 1 week workshop, at Haystack, Maine, USA
SHOWS:
2023 "Rainbow Murmuration" Mobile installation at Rockland Public Library
2022 "Flowing" one person show at Hedgerow Gallery in Martinsville, Maine
Mobile Exhibit at Rockport Public Library
2021 "AWAKENING" Sculpture exhibit at Hawk Ridge Farm curated by June LaCombe, Maine
"AUTUMN" exhibit at Hawk Ridge Farm, Maine
"Artists Choice" juried show, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine
"Cascade" Installation, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland ME
Selection at Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, Taos, NM
2020 "Clarity" Sculpture exhibit at Hawk Ridge Farm curated by June LaCombe, Maine
"AUTUMN" outside exhibit at Hawk Ridge Farm, Maine
"Art Comes Alive" ADC Fine Art, Cincinnati OH
2019 "Metamorphosis and the living forces in nature" Lightform Gallery, Hudson NY
"Living with Art" at Hawk Ridge Farm Maine
2017 "Embracing Earth" at Hawk Ridge Farm,
"Power of Place" at Wells Reserve at Laudholm both curated by June LaCombe, Maine
2016 "Autumn"at Hawk Ridge Farm, Maine
2015 "Poetics of Place" at Hawk Ridge Farm, Maine
2014 “Pollinators” Botanical Gardens Boothbay ME, curated by June LaCombe
2014 “ A Celebration of Art and Nature” Maine Audubon, curated by June LaCombe
2012 “Steel and Stone” at Hawk Ridge Farm, curated by June LaCombe, Maine
“On the Wing” Botanical Gardens Boothbay ME, curated by June LaCombe
“On the Wing” Maine Audobon, Falmouth ME, curated by June LaCombe
Summer show at Spring Gallery, Belgrade ME
2011 “Between Earth and Sky” at Hawk Ridge Farm
2009 - 2010 “Art, Nature and Design”, one person outdoor sculpture show at Merryspring Nature Center,
Camden ME
2009 “Transforming Capacities” Art and Science, Exhibit at Threefold Center, Spring Valley, NY
2007 - 2010 Numerous one person shows featuring sculpture or photography in settings between Rockland and
Ellsworth ME
2008 Member of Art Space Gallery, Rockland ME
2007 Gallery representation by Élan Fine Arts, Rockport ME
2006 Show featuring Jewelry and Sculpture at Michael Good Designs Gallery
1990-2004 Numerous jewelry shows and more recently sculpture exhibits as part of Michael Good Design
1994,1995 One person jewelry exhibits in Essen, Germany
STUDIES:
2008 Welding class in Rockland ME
1998 Blacksmithing workshop at Haystack,ME
SCULPTURAL DEVELOPMENT:
2020 Development of Hanging Sculptures- Art Mobiles
2015 Experimenting with direct cement carving
2010 rediscovering foldforming technique for smaller copper sculptures and jewelry
2009 building life size sculptures(up to 8’ high) out of copper tubing, steel rod and steel pipe
2007 starting to work bigger, experimenting in plaster, hydrocal and a little cement
2005 starting to work and learn bronze sculpture, including making the molds and wax & plaster casts
1984- 2005 mostly jewelry design