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Isabelle H Radtke 

  


   Art is not the point, what matters is what it tends toward.
   So I work with surfaces: sheets of metal or fragile skins of paint
   to represent the outer skin of a mystery I wouldn’t dare to name.
  
   Born in 1977 in Switzerland, I live and work in NYC since 2001.


Contact the artist : isabelle.radtke@gmail.com


Education
 
College Voltaire
, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-1996: Visual Art , “mention good”.

 National School of Fine Arts, Paris, France, 1997-2000: Studied under Richard Deacon.

 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, 2000-2001: Assistant to Artist Robert Barnstone (architectural designer at the
                                           Washington State University) in the creation of “Prone”, a two-and-a-half-ton wooden sculpture (2000).
                                           Assistant to artist Lars Fisk for an 8-ton concrete sculpture (2001).

 The Space, Long Island City, NY, 2002-present: Artist in residence and public space development.


Major exhibitions  

2006 Tout un cirque: Galerie Ed. Roch, Ballens, Switzerland. Solo show in parallel to Anne-Marie Gbindoun's and Sébastien Peissard's.

2005 Peaux de peinture: Solo show, Chapelle St Joseph, Fitou, France 

2004 summer in Long Island City: Group show, the gallery Space, L.I.C., NY

2003-present GROW !: Ongoing outdoor sculpture show, L.I.C., NY

2001  La peau des Pas sages: solo show, Quai du Mont Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland.

2000 Ce qui reste: Temporary installation, socrates sculpture park, L.I.C., NY