About the Artist

Helga Butzer Felleisen holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Classical Civilizations and in Classical Archaeology from The University of Chicago and from Indiana University, respectively. A Kress Foundation Fellowship in 1989 enabled her to conduct her doctoral research in Greece. Since 2000, Helga has done free-lance consulting for home and landscape design. She attended the Glassell School of Art, Houston and the Boston Architectural Center; she later earned a Diploma and Fifth Year Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Helga has won awards and shows her work extensively. She has work in private collections in the United States and in Europe.

A child of immigrants with a strong ethnic identity, Helga considers herself a third culture kid. She has always lived between cultures. To her, identity represents a tension between wanting roots and the freedom of floating. It is not surprising that her work centers on the relationship between identity and memory. It challenges the viewer to consider how who we are dictates what we perceive.