Justus Sundermann Gallery
November 1 through December 16

Annie Ehrenreich found herself fascinated by colorful Christian Medieval artwork, causing her to experiment with the creation of updated devotional mosaics of faith. Utilizing paper tiles of Medieval and Renaissance works from the public domain, her process has been self-taught. A growing number of secular art mosaics from the same periods has expanded her saturated art line. She finds “the physical action of hand-piecing these works to be spiritually centering and meditative.” This passion was sparked during an Art History of the Middle Ages course taken as a returning college student and was further inflamed while touring museums and cathedrals in Prague and Vienna.

“As a kindergartener, I crayoned all over my paper in different colors, covered it all with solid black, and then scraped it away to reveal multi-colored designs. As a teenager, I obsessed about the collage posters on my wall being placed exactly level. As a returning adult college student, I fell in love with Medieval Christian art when I took my first (and only) Art History course. The Holy Image collaborations were first and then came the Secular line. I love how the group massed together seems to highlight the individual artwork. I hope others will feel as I do and enjoy these art mosaics with a depth of appreciation for each individual work of art as well as for the impact of the whole.” – Annie Ehrenreich

More about the artist here.