Biography

"I was born in Berlin, Germany. From 1969 to 1971 I lived near Buenos Aires, Argentina. My first extended stay in the US was as an exchange student in 1986. Then in 1991, after finishing my MFA in Berlin, I moved to Seattle, WA.

My work has moved from semi-abstract, room-filling plant and insect drawings, to paintings of detailed botanical and anatomical imagery on waxed paper bags, to my current work of young women and children on wood panel. The thread here being my fascination and awe of life on this planet and the connectedness I feel to all, but find hard to describe in words.

In the process of finding healing for chronic pain and fatigue (I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia eight years ago.), I have deepened my interest in shamanism, ceremony and the deep nurturing that nature provides

In my work I try to be as honest and true to myself as I can without losing discernment. I aim as best as I can for sincerity, intimacy and openness in my paintings. In them I find the beginning of something that touches the universal. It is a place where others can touch the magic and sensuality that gets exposed in the process.

I think deep inside of us lives a longing to experience a sense of 'falling in love'. A visceral experience without words. For that to happen, this place needs to be free of irony, social commentary or conceptual humor. I am looking in my work to find the point in which we feel a certain ache – the ache caused by the knowledge that life is full of light and dark, sacred and profane, beauty and ugliness, life and death."

Exhibition

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany 1991
Fulbright Scholarship, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 1986-87​
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY 2018
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA 2018
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis,TN 2018
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2018
Russo Lee Gallery, Portland OR, July 2017
Wally Workman Gallery, Austin TX, July 2017
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville TN, October 2017
Drawings, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA 2016
New Work, Littlejohn Contemporary, New Canaan, CT 2016
Woodside Braseth Gallery, Seattle, WA 2016
Works on Paper, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2016
Dream Lessons, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2015
Elements, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2015
Beauty the Brave, Slete Gallery/Obsolete, Venice, CA 2015
Edges of Mist, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY 2015
Old Growth, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2014
Part II, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2014
Trees, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2014
Healing, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY 2013
Ceremony, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2013
A Careful Observation of Daylight, Obsolete, Venice, CA 2013
Anne Siems, Wolly Workamn Gallery, Austin, TX 2012
Guidance, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2012
Saints and Other Folk, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2011
More Saints, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2011
Paintings, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY 2011
Wolpertinger & Other Creatures, Jacana Contemporary, Vancouver, BC 2010
Taxonomy of the Velvet Forest, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2010
Heartbranches and Strange Plants, Obsolete, Venice, CA 2010
Butterfly Flight & Other Stories, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA 2009
Creatures, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland,OR 2009
Birds, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, Ny 2009
New Work, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland,OR 2008
New Work, Walker Contemporary, Boston,MA 2008
New Work, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis,TN 2008
New Work, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2007
Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006, 2007
Muse, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2006
Portraits, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005
The Gift of Dream, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004
Daydream, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004
New Work, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT 2004
Home, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2004
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 2004
Infant, Boy, Girl, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2003
Kinder, Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 2003
Children, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 2003
Bloom, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002
This Vision, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2002
Land in this Body, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 2001
Erde, Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 2001
Winston Wachter Mayer Gallery, New York, NY 2001
James Gallery, Houston, TX 2001
From Within and Above, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000
James Gallery, Houston, Texas 2000
University of Texas, San Marcos, Texas 2000
I Gather Myself Beneath Myself, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999
Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee 1999
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 1999
James Gallery, Houston, TX 1999
Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 1999
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999
Thoughts in the Night, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1998
Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 1998
Nocturnes, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1998
Inside a Feathered Body, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1997
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 1997
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1996
Unfolded in Stillness, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1996
The Membrane of My Breath, Catharine Clark Gallery, SF, CA 1996
Botanical Vision, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID 1996
The Garden Behind Closed Eyes, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 1996
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 1996
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1995
Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994
Cal State San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, San Bernardino, CA 1994
Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR 1994
Flower Anatomy, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1994
Works of Summer, Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994
Invented Memory, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR 1994
University of Alaska-Anchorage, Anchorage, AK 1994
Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR 1994
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1993
Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR 1993
Sorg Design, Berlin, Germany 1991
Light Band Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1991
Frank Wegener, Steuerberater, Berlin, Germany 1990
Hertin, Nordemann & Vinck, Berlin, Germany 1988
Cafe Ubersee, Berlin, Germany 1988
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 1987
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Believe in Magic Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy
Radical Kingdoms Union College, Schenectady, NY
Her Story, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA 2016
200 Years of Grimm Fairy Tales, Goethe Institute, San Francisco, CA 2012
Gallery Artists: Group Show, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2012
Taste at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2011
SUBstainability, Texas State University, Austin, TX 2011
A Debt to Pleasure, Massachusettes College of Art Gallery, MA 2011
Group Show, Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2011
Aqua Fair, Walker Contemporary, Miami, FL 2010
RUST-German American Artists, Sanchez Art Center, CA 2009
VISAGES:FACE REVISED,Rockford Art Museum,Rockford, IL 2009
20th Anniversary Group Show, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2005
Reading Meaning: Word and Symbol in the Art of Squeak Cornwath,
Leslie Dill, Leslie Anders Lee and Anne Siems,
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Clairmont, CA 2004
Works on Paper, The Armory, New York, NY 1998
Director's Council Exhibit, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN 1998
All Fired Up, Planned Parenthood Benefit, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery,
Memphis, TN 1998
The Garden Show, PICA, Portland, OR 1997
Works on Paper, The Armory, New York, NY 1997
Out of Eden, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design,
Kansas City, MO 1997
SAFECO Collection, Jundt Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 1997
Botanically Inspired: Geraldine Ondrizek & Anne Siems,
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 1997
Memphis College of Art Biennial, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN 1997
Beeswax, Soil Gallery, Seattle WA 1997
Images That Make the Heart Murmur, Jan Baum Gallery, L.A., CA 1996
Tree as Icon, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 1996
Seventh National Juried Exhibition, Viridian, New York, NY 1996
A Collective Endeavor: Artfair Seattle 1992-1995, Seafirst Gallery,
Seattle, WA 1996
Gardens: Primeval and Eternal, Delta Axis, Memphis, TN 1996
Paperworks, Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1995
Open Space, Victoria, B.C. 1995
New Art '94, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 1994
Art Books, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994
Flora: Artist's Gardens, Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994
French & Siems, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent, Portland, OR 1993
Botanic, Sean Elwood Fine Art, Seattle, WA 1993
Issues of Response: Collaboration Among Three People, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 1993
Notes On Nature; The Last Acetate Show: Memorial to Red Spot, The Palladium, New York, NY 1992
Figure: 7, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1992
Northwest Juried Art: 1992, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1992
Gallery Artists, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR 1992
Seattle Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA 1992
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1992
Silences Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991
O-HDK, Berlin, Germany 1990
FBK, Berlin, Germany 1990
Klasse Petrick Bei Siemens AG, Berlin, Germany 1998
COLLECTIONS
​Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
American Airlines, Seattle, WA
Benziger Winery, Benziger Imagery Series, Sangiovese Chianti
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Bullivant Houser Bailey
Fidelity Investments
Harry Connick, Jr.
Hallmark Collection, New York, NY
Irene Mahler Fine Art, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA
Mueller Design Inc.
Nestle USA, Glendale, CA
Nordstrom
Oregon Health and Science University, OR
Safeco Collection, Seattle, WA
Seattle University, WA
Sonoma State University Art Collection, Rohnert Park, CA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
​AWARDS
OCAC 90th Anniversary, Residency, Portland, OR 1997
Neddy Award Nominee, Seattle, WA 1996
Alice Rooney NW Women Artists Stipend for Pilchuck Glass School 1995
Artquake, Juror Ned Rifkin, 1st Prize, Drawing, Portland, OR 1994