About Me
By education, Ulrike is a mathematician, an electrical engineer and a business woman. She has advanced degrees from both the University of Waterloo and Stanford University. By vocation, she operates in the black-and-white, yes-no rigor of the aerospace field. Drawing and eventually sculpting started as an exercise in developing the "other side" (the right side) of her brain. It has grown from a flirtation to a full-fledged love affair.
Ulrike's sculpture is most often representational - predominantly of the human form - but other life forces also appear prominently. She responds to capturing gesture and attitude, and finds the challenge of creating movement in a traditionally immovable medium (stone) most compelling.
Ulrike’s work skillfully explores the aesthetic. What makes a form pleasing? What curves are we drawn to, what surface undulations evoke emotion? What is it in a line, or in a singularity, or in an edge that creates a feeling? How is it that the feeling so created is sensual or even seductive?
It is when the two hemispheres of the brain intersect, that magic is created. In he juxtaposition of the hard, cold immobility of stone with the emotion and life-force of the subject lies the enchantment and alure.
