Gallery Opening: Gerit Grimm's Offshore

"Real life excursions have taken me on a path exploring life not
as a traveler, photographer or writer, but as a pilgrim of
opportunity itself. My expeditions provide the backdrop for my
ceramic sculptures, adding a dimension of lived experience
transforming the ordinary into a hyper reality." - Gerit Grimm

Gerit Grimm was born, and grew up in Halle, German Democratic
Republic. In 1995, she finished her apprenticeship, learning the
traditional German trade as a potter at the “Altbürgeler blau-
weiss GmbH” in Bürgel, Germany and worked as a Journeyman for
Joachim Jung in Glashagen, Germany. She earned an Art and Design
Diploma in 2001 studying ceramics at Burg Giebichenstein, Halle,
Germany. In 2002, she was awarded with the German DAAD
Government Grant for the University of Michigan School of Art
and Design, where she graduated with an MA in 2002. She received
her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
University in 2004. She has taught at CSULB, Pitzer College,
Doane College and MSU Bozeman and has worked at major
residencies like Mc Coll Center, Bemis Center, Kohler Arts &
Industry Program and Archie Bray Foundation. Grimm is an
Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison.