Ursula Kammer-Fox
Contact Information
Biography
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1943 Born in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
1945 End of war.
1949-1962 In addition to normal school subjects, I learn knitting, mending, weaving. I’m surrounded by people who make-do, with their hands and whatever materials are available: my grandfather soles our shoes. I also have art classes, and art history classes, despite a shortage of art materials.
1962-1964 I graduate from the Gymnasium and study English at the University of Saarbrücken (B.A. 1964).
1964-1967 I work as an English and German teacher at the Berlitz School, Frankfurt.
1967 I marry an American and teach German and French at a private school in Mt. Kisco, New York.
1968-1975 We move between Europe, Latin America, Japan and the U.S. In Guatemala City I study Spanish and take a course in still life (I learn to see). I study Japanese and ikebana in Tokyo (I learn composition).
1975 We move to Los Angeles. I work as a cook and companion.
1984 B.A. in French, Magna Cum Laude, CSUN.
1993 I do something I’m afraid of: I "study art." Two 6-week courses at Santa Monica College in collage and assemblage. I realize art is another language. I fall in love with it, work hard, and start exhibiting in 1994.
Artist's Statement
I create collages and assemblages, because they allow me to explore the ambiguities of power, religion and sex, while recycling man-and nature-made leftovers, rediscovering and rearranging the familiar, telling unfinished stories.
But sometimes I create just to enjoy the materials.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2006
ElPlay Mates, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
2004
El Camino College Library, Torrance, CA
2002
Collages and Assemblages, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Reassembling the World, A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
1999
German Consulate, Los Angeles, CA
Unitarian Universalist Community Church, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Invitational & Juried Shows
2005
Bodies of Work, The Loft, San Pedro, CA
Looking at Art, Los Angeles World Airports Exhibition Program, LA, CA
Illusion and Allusion, Burbank Creative Arts Center Gallery, Burbank, CA
Los Angeles Assemblage Group, Ventura College Art Gallery, Ventura,
2004
LAAG 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Roberts Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Rejected/Accepted, Wignall Museum Gallery, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Companions & Conversations, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA
Los Angeles Assemblage Show, Don O'Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, CA, catalog
The Chai Show, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA
From the Neck Up: Hats Off, Palos Verdes Art Center, CA, juror Scott Canty
Containers, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, juror Jean Clad
2002
Impressions of Joy, Biola University Art Gallery, La Mirada, CA
Cut & Paste, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA
Read Between the Lines, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Poetic License, CSU/Dominguez Hills, CA, curator Kathy Zimmerer
Violence, Second City Council, Long Beach, CA
Collage/Assemblage/USA, Ventura College Galleries, Ventura, CA, juror Catherine Chang Liu
L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, juror Lydia Takeshita
2000
L.A. Assemblage Group, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
Yom Hashoah, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA, curators Victor Rafael and Sidi Gluck
The Right to Assemble, CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curator LaMonte Westmoreland
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, featured artist
Art from Detritus, John Jay College, NY, curator Vernita Nemec
1999
L.A. Assemblage Group at Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, curator Mark Greenfield
Five Senses, juror Michael S. McMillen, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Memory and Meaning: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Artist, Dubin/Wolf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collage Artists of America, Brand Galleries, Glendale, CA, juror Katherine Chang Liu, catalog
Seeing Money, Portland Arts Foundation, OR, curator Helen Gundlach
The Art of Assemblage, Palos Verdes Art Center, CA, curator Scott Canty
Valley Institute of Visual Art, Northridge, CA
Surrealism, Long Beach Art, CA, juror Scott Canty
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, juror Lisa K. Erf
1998
Box, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Feminie, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, catalog
Group: Assemblage, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
Found Object as Art, Long Beach Arts, CA, juror George Herms
On Site - at the Gate, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, juror Stephen Nowlin
Joslyn Fine Arts Gallery, Torrance, CA
1997
William Grant Still Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, juror Rick Moss
Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA, juror John W. Outterbridge
Laguna Art Museum, CA, juror Henry Hopkins, catalog
Exchange, Claremont College, CA, juror Dean de Cocker
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996
The Great Garbage Binge Art Show, traveling, catalog
peddi small works, The Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown, NJ
Inland Exhibition XXXII, San Bernardino Art Association, CA, juror Mary Kay Lombino
The Tool Show, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR, curator Paul Arensmeyer
Art from Detritus III, Pittsburgh, PA, catalog
Visions Touring Art Exhibition, Virginia Beach and Richmond, VA
Fine Arts Federation, Burbank, CA
1995
Thousand Oaks Art Association, CA juror Katherine Chang Liu
What Do Women Mean to You, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Faces of Women, Las Vegas Arts Council, NM, juror Stewart Ashman
Home is Where the Hell Is, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
First Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR
Private as Public, Boulder City Arts Commission, Boulder, CO
Art from Detritus II, Kansas City, KS and Phoenix, AZ, catalog
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juror Kent Twitchell
Selected Other Shows
1997
Städtische Galerie, Meiningen, Germany
Kultur u. Spielmarkt, Wiesbaden-Naurod, Germany
Glued, Screwed, Wired, Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
1996
Women/Violence, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
The X-Show, - Examine the Unspoken, Swann Gallery, Detroit, MI
1994
World's Women On-Line, World Wide Web & Bejing from 1995, curator Muriel Magenta
ACLU of Oregon's Uncensored Celebration, U. of Oregon, OR
The Folk Tree, Pasadena, CA
1994-1997
Vita Gallery, Portland, OR
Awards
Honorable Mention, Long Beach Arts, CA, 1998 (George Herms)
California Discovery, Silver, 1994
Juror
You & Eye: Art Responds to Prejudice, A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2001
Taboo Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 1996
Prejudice, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000
Collections
ESPNZone, Anaheim, CA, commission
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, CA
UCLA Medical Arts Program, CA
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Cascade Aids Program, Portland, OR
Workmen's Circle, Los Angeles, CA
Private Collectors
Personal Affiliations
Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 - Board Member 1997-8
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Los Angeles Assemblage Group, chair
Collage Artists of America
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