Jordana Rae
Gassner

Jordana Rae Gassner was born in the year of the dragon, 1976, in the Black Hills, SD, USA. She began working at age 14 within the fashion industry which helped to influence her later decision to direct her own creative arts endeavors.  Her later experiences working at her family’s gallery and picture framing business before beginning studies in Psychology, Literature and Philosophy, helped to refine her focus towards 2 dimensional paintings and small sculpture. She obtained her Bachelors of Arts in 1999 after attending universities in Norway, Mexico and USA. Mostly, her art practice was confined to watercolor and acrylic painting until 2005 when she and her small family moved to Seattle, WA. There, she was able to re-commence learning to paint with oil painting materials. In 2007, she again relocated, this time to Regensburg, one of the most beautiful cities in Germany. Ironically, the overwhelming “European-ness” of her new home had her yearning to create artworks reminiscent of her abstract expressionist fore-fathers and mothers in America.