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Christa Gampp was born and raised in an artistic family environment in the small town of Oberhausen, Baden in Southwest Germany. Her father, Rudolf Gampp, a skilled watercolourist, operated a decorative arts and design business during his younger years. Her older brother, Hartmut Gampp, also an artist, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Ms. Gampp moved to Canada in her early twenties, where she studied drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art & Design (AOCA ’88). After completing her B.A. at the University of Toronto (’90) and B.Ed. at Nipissing University (’91), she has worked as both teacher and artist in Toronto, Canada. She has one son, Paco Gampp, whose creativity and interests are in the field of music and communication.

Over the past 16 years, Christa Gampp has primarily worked in a variety of mixed media techniques on paper and wood, exploring the relationship of the inner, hidden realm of the subject to its visible outer world.

Her latest body of work explores the Still Life genre. Through the painterly translation of a real phenomenon, with a focused centre of interest and the gradual dissolving and integration into the background, her artwork touches upon the lyrical and poetic language of art.  Within the canon of colour, the viewer is invited to feel the bipolarity of the sanguine-melancholy predestination, given to us in our cradle.

Exhibitions and Publications (selection):

2006                Arta Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto, Canada

2006                Kipling Gallery, Woodbridge, Canada 

2006                21st Annual Juried Art Show, Scarborough Arts Council

2004-05           Adonis Gallery, Vaughan, Ontario

2004                52nd Annual Open Juried Show, Colour & Form Society, Etobicoke

2004                31st Annual Juried Show, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton

2004                Gallery 1313, Great Art Glad Heart, Toronto

2002                Art at the Heart 2002, Scarborough Civic Centre

2002                Cabbagetwon Arts and Craft Show, Toronto

2002                Leathertown Festival Juried Art Show, Acton

2000                TCDSB Staff Arts Exhibition, Loretto Abbey, Toronto

1997                Cover Art, Canadian Treasurer Magazine, August ‘97

1996-98           Rocfern International Galleries Inc., Woodbridge

1996                Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

1995                Cover Art, Canadian Treasurer Magazine, August ‘95

1995                The Jazz Series, Q-Club, Toronto

1995                Works on Paper, Brookbanks Library, North York

1994                Works on Paper, Pleasant View Library, North York

1994                Surgere ab Intra, Café des Arts, Toronto

Grants and Awards

2002                Halton Hills Glass Award, Leathertown Festival, Acton

1994                Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant

Private and Corporate Collections

1996                Magnotta Corporation, Canada

1996                R+V Insurance, Germany

1996                State Welfare Federation of Baden, Germany