Vera Gierke
Vera Gierke is an artist who grew up in New Jersey, and has lived in Michigan, Indiana and Rhode Island, and seasonally on Nantucket. Living in Rhode Island, she engaged in a broad range of Continuing Education classes at Rhode Island School of Design and worked with a few local artists. From having taken a large variety of classes, Vera expanded her vision and found that the various areas of art interrelate, support and broaden each other. Aspects learned in one discipline have enhanced were incorporated into other forms of art. With her developing interest in art, she joined the Providence Art Club where she explored a variety of art classes: acrylic, oil, watercolor, drawing, print making, photography, photoshop and collage. Through these classes, Vera discovered a fascination with paper collage and has made that her favorite form of art. Her work is not abstract, rather she looks for a way to make an image or object different than what is expected, to add interest through the material used for the collage, and to entice the viewer to look at the work more carefully and mindfully.