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Helen Serras-Herman is an acclaimed Sculptor with over 24 years of
experience in unique gem sculpture work. Her distinctive work on gemstones,
featured in several trade magazines and books, includes Gem Sculptures
and Jewelry Art. Her recent “Wearable Sculptures” explore the
connection and transition between the two worlds of Fine Art and Wearable Art.
Helen was born in New
York City, N.Y.
and moved at the age of 5 with her parents to their homeland in Athens,
Greece.
Helen holds a Masters degree (MFA) in
Sculpture from the prestigious ‘Hochschuele Der Kuenste’ (University
of Arts)
in West
Berlin, Germany,
where she studied with professors Hans Nagel and Harro Jacob from
1976-1983. She gathered experience in moulds and casts working as Tutor of the ‘Plaster
Workshop’ in the Sculpture Division (1981-1983).
Helen also studied Drawing, Painting and History of Art in
Athens,
Greece
(1973-76). She has also studied Gem Sculpture (Glyptography) with the late
English master Nik Kielty Lambrinides (1984-1988) and earned her degree in
Gemology.
From 1983 to 1988 Helen worked in bronze and
mixed media in Athens,
Greece.
She presented two solo exhibitions and participated in 33 sculpture group
exhibitions. Today all the sculptural works of that time are in private
collections in Greece,
the “Haris Antoniou” Art Collection, the “Municipal
Art Gallery
of Pireus”, and over 80 works are housed in the “Theodore Hatzisavas Sculpture
Collection”. A special order Bronze Relief Tombstone is in “Steglitz Cemetery” Berlin,
Germany.
In 1988 Helen moved to Maryland,
into the Washington,
D.C.
Metropolitan area and established her studio, the “Glyptography
Center”,
now known as the “Gem
Art
Center”.
From that point on she has completely devoted her work to the art and science
of Gem Sculpture.
Helen joined the “Gem Artists of North
America” in 1997 as an Artist Member and has exhibited with
the group several times at museums around the country. Helen served as
Treasurer on the Board of Directors 2000-01, and as President 2002-03.
Helen is also a noted lecturer, has given
over 60 lectures nationwide to 24 Societies and Associations, and has received
several Awards for her educational efforts. She has written several articles
published in trade magazines.
Her views and artwork and have been featured in several
trade magazines, “Lapidary Journal”, “JCK”, “Rock & Gem”, “The Guide Gem
Market News”, “The Australian Metal, Stone & Glass”, “Colored Stone”,
“American Gemcutter”, “The ArtBook of the New West”, and books “Cameos Old
& New” and “Master Making: Profits in Lapidary”.
In 2003 Helen Serras-Herman received the
great honor to be inducted in the National Lapidary Hall of Fame.
She and her husband moved to sunny Southern
Arizona, where she has set up her studio and continues
her artwork.
Helen’s newest gem sculpture “The Omphalos of
Earth” received the “Best of Show” Award in the 2006 fall exhibit “Pathways
and Portals” at the “Tubac
Center of the Arts”, in Tubac,
AZ.
Helen
Serras-Herman’s artwork has been exhibited at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary
Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Pittsburgh Ballet Opera, the L.A.
County
Natural
History
Museum,
the Historic Manning House in Tucson,
AZ,
the Quiet Waters Park Art Show in Annapolis,
MD,
and at AGTA GemFair in Tucson,
AZ
and Las
Vegas, NV.
Her
work was recently showcased during two “Featured Artist Shows” at the
“Purcell Galleries of Fine Art” in Tubac,
AZ,
in December 2006, and the “Max
Gallery of Fine Art”, in Tucson,
AZ,
January 20 - February 28,
2007.
Helen’s
work is currently represented in Southern
Arizona by the “Los Reyes Gallery” of Fine Art in
Tubac.
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