Loefke’s site specific installation transforms the space into a unique fantastical environment, which enchants the viewer employing a net of colorful and playful objects in tightly interlocking relations. Using picnic tablecloth, and a wood construction involving ladders and platforms, as well as light blue styrofoam and fire red high gloss paint, she chooses and sets up materials to convey a vocabulary of fantasy with a tinge of familiarity. The contrast of aggressive red set against baby blue color and nostalgic patters of flannel-backed vinyl tablecloth fabricates a kitschy, artificial and slightly obscure environment while “cartoony” shapes of clouds add a playful and fairytale like atmosphere to the space.

The work’s central focus element - a wood construction of verticals and horizontals - composed to form an ascending gesture, expands itself by the placement of a variety of objects along the ceiling, walls and floor. A production line of red, dripping clouds as well as showers of red string guide one’s eyes through a journey into Loefke’s world where one finds surprise, wonder and delight.

Andrea Loefke was born in Heidelberg, Germany, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She teaches at Pratt Institute and has been a guest Lecturer/critic at St. Cloud University, Saint Cloud, Minnesota and Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Her works have appeared in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, and Sculpture Magazine.