Ulrike Arnold

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Ulrike Arnold (born 1950 in Düsseldorf) is a German artist.

Her pictures can be found at many public museums and private collections, such as the North-Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery at Düsseldorf, the Düsseldorf museum of arts, the Ernst & Young collection, also Düsseldorf, at Deutsche Bank, Cologne, GLS bank, Bochum, Dennis Hopper's private collection at Venice, Los Angeles, California, the Langen Foundation's collection at Neuss or the Vollstedt private collection.

Biography
Life

Ulrike Arnold studied music and art from 1968 to 1971, after that she worked as teacher. From 1979 to 1986 she studied fine arts at the Düsseldorf academy in Professor Klaus Rinke's masters class. She was granted the Eduard von der Heydt stipendium of Wuppertal in 1988. Since 1980 the artist travels across all five continents to work there although Ulrike Arnold mainly lives and works in Düsseldorf and in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Work as artist
Earth paintings

Earth paintings are typical for Arnold's art as she uses a unique material. She paints pictures with sorts of earths, minerals and stones on nettle fabric. She collects her colors in the form of minerals which she then grinds into a paste for painting. The titles of her pictures correspond to the places across the world where she finds her ingredients, like Flagstaff, Arizona or Bryce Canyon in Utah. The structures, forms and colours of those paintings mirror the quality of the landscape were they are created on site. There they are exposed to the natural conditions of the place which even enhaces their intensity.
Comet pictures

Since 2004 Ulrike Arnold is continuously expanding her repertoire of resources. She is the first and only artist worldwide[citation needed] to use particles of meteorites (nickel, iron and chondrules) which she purchases from research facilities. Those valuable substances originate from asteroids and comets. Their dark dust bears witness to the early universe. With it, Ulrike Arnold goes beyond the use of terrestric materials to create cosmological pictures.
Exhibitions

1987 Gerstman Abdallah Fine Arts, Cologne; Goethe Institute, Sydney; Gerstman Abdallah Fine Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1989 Kunstverein Wuppertal
1991 Earth Art, Erdbilder Amerika, Studiogalerie Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
1992 Galerie Nawrocki, Cologne
1994 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, USA; City Hall, Frankfurt; Galerie im Museum Folkwang, Essen
1995 Erdbilder, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
1997 International Earth Day, Antoniterkirche, Cologne; Alte Brüderkirche, Kassel; Galerie Ricarda Fox, Essen
1999 Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Düsseldorf
2000 Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona USA; Galerie Beethovenstrasse, Düsseldorf
2001 Kolbstudio, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA; Art in Machiya, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Earth Paintings, Gallery Angie Schäfer, Fürstenfeldbruck; Galerie Beethovenstrasse, Düsseldorf
2004 Ausstellungsraum Wischerstrasse, Wuppertal
2005 erdnah - sternenfern, Deutsche Bank AG, Cologne
2006 Erdgestein und Sternenstaub, Altes Museum, Mönchengladbach
2007 William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, USA

Bibliography

Galloway, David (July 17, 1999). "Polemics and Poetry of Environmental Art". Herald Tribune.
L. Greer Price (1999). "Ulrike Arnold". Plateau Journal (Museum of Northern Arizona, Grand Canyon Association).[dead link]
Regan, Margaret (July 27, 2000). "Earth Tones, Ulrike Arnold's Art Literally Rises From The Soil". Tucson Weekly.
Vasanthi Sankaranrayanan (February 15, 2001). "Easel Of Earthy Hues". The Hindu.
Bärmann, Matthias (February 2006). "Stones and Stardust". Ulrike Arnold.
Broich, Engelbert. "Ulrike Arnold – Malerin mit Erde und Sternenstaub" (in German). Junge Kunst 69.

External links

Ulrike Arnold's website

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