addie motzko    biography

Addie Motzko, a Minnesota native, has resided in Minnesota most of her life, other than two years spent in Portland, Oregon. She is an artist in all media, specializing in abstract painting and metal sculpture. Addie's work is influenced by organic shapes found in the natural world that translate themselves into subconcious and abstract forms. She is interested in the contrast between the natural and the man made world. For example, how organic shapes that represent nature an be pounded from pieces of flat steel and welded together to create abstract and organic forms. The steel is a canvas that presents emotions, ideas, thoughts, and experiences that translate themselves into a three dimensional work of art. Addie's work can also be figurative and inspired by real people as well as human qualities that influence and motivate her.

Addie's work has been exhibited at Creators Space Gallery, One Division Art Gallery, The Gallery at Zeller Studio, the Plymouth Primavera, the Solar Arts Building at the annual Art-a-Whirl event, Hutchinson Sculpture Stroll, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Guild of Metalsmiths and at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

Addie has experience teaching art as the Welding CoInstructor and Studio Monitor at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts, student teaching Visual Art and Art History at Willmar High School and Minnewaska High School, as well as the Art Coordinator at Port City Development Center teaching art to adults with developmental disabilities.

Addie is the recipient of MN Sculptors Society Best in Show Award 2019, Plymouth Primavera Award of Excellence 2019, Plymouth Primavera Award 2018, Barbara Lund Award Minnetonka Center for the Arts 2013-2014, Bookstore Award at University of Minnesota Morris 2006, Industrial Technology Award Wayzata High School 1994.

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