Herrat Sommerhoff

HERRAT SOMMERHOFF

 

898 Westwood Avenue

 

RIVER VALE, NJ 07675

 

 

 

 

 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

 

                                            

 

The materials used in my art work come out of trash bins, from roadsides and the local dump. They were used in schools (milk cartons), business (Styrofoam and cardboard) - as well as in our homes. Appliances, furniture, etc., everything is protected by something that is discarded after a single use. Their interesting shapes and the rhythm of their design appeal to me, and it has given me great pleasure to transform these throw-aways into colorful 3-dimensional artwork.

 

 

 

 ARTIST’S BIO

 

Herrat Sommerhoff was born and educated in Germany. She immigrated to the United States in 1959, continuing her art studies at Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, the Art Students League, New York City, and the Art Center of NNJ in New Milford. 

 

Ms. Sommerhoff has exhibited, taught and lectured extensively in the United States, as well as in Germany. Her outdoor sculptures remain on exhibit in River Vale and Clifton, NJ, Steamboat Springs, CO and in the Catskills, upstate New York.  Her most recent solo exhibit abroad was at the Ministry of the Environment in Berlin.  Sommerhoff is affiliated with the Art Center of NNJ, SALUTE to Women in the Arts, the National Association of Women Artists, (NAWA) in NYC. – Her artwork is in numerous collections, in the US, Europe and  Colombia, South America.