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Stone sculptor and metal welder extraordinaire, emerging artist Erika Koenig-Workman has so successfully crossed gender barriers into the non-traditional forms of artistic expression that we tend to not notice such barriers ever existed.
Koenig-Workman is a true Renaissance woman, at once dancer writer poet graphic designer painter sculptor and fabricator. Her observance of nature translates to the metallic and to stone, the essence of the Earth and the language of her art. The River becomes a silver ribbon, a scrap piece of found metal a symbol of land, with welded additions to represent the human made structures and visitors to the her world.
Her paintings are highly symbolic and expressive of her existence. At once figurative abstraction, they are also masterfully composed and minimally coloured — not unlike her sculpture and metal fabrications.
Koenig-Workman spent time at Living Stone Studio with Alberto Replanski and was set on her path to working with stone and metal. Since the passing of Replanski in January 2008, she will continue to work with Danielle Hebert, one of Replanski's students, who worked with Alberto for 7 years. Koenig-Workman's welding skills are honed at Shamrock Welding. Orange Carharts, welding shield, steel toed boots, and woolies for warmth, she can be found wielding a torch, sparks flying, assembling a work of art from her visions of fused metal in delightfully new configurations. Koenig-Workman’s artwork is on her website www.erikakoenigworkman.com; her masterful storytelling and wordsmithing can be found on her blogsite, www.salonunidad.wordpress.com or visit www.tigmigfrig.wordpress.com
