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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 |