New Solo Exhibition Impressions by Land Opening Reception: Sat. Jan 13, 2-4 pm January 5 - February 10, 2018 First Fridays in Jan & Feb 5-9 pm Manna Gallery, 473 25th St. Oakland CA image: Lines to the Sea: San Pablo Tidal Flat 3, 8 x 8 in, colored pastel and wax medium on panel, 2017 | | |
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Hovering at the intersection of print and drawing these emotive landscapes play with visual perception, place, time and fictitious vantages. I am thrilled to start off the new year showing a new body of work in “Impressions by Land” at Manna Gallery. This will not only be my first solo exhibition of my encaustic California landscape work, but also my first time working with Manna Gallery in Oakland's bustling Arts & Garage District. An intimate well lit gallery nestled among half a dozen other exhibition spaces in Uptown Oakland, its the perfect space to showcase these highly detailed pieces. Exhibit opens Friday January 5 and continues through Saturday February 10. Please join me at the opening reception on Saturday, January 13th from 2-4 pm when I will be available to discuss this new body of work. |
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Artist Parent Award I am so excited to share that I have been awarded a Parent Artist Residency Award for a printmaking residency starting this February through the end of May at the Kala Art Institute. One of the Bay Area’s (and the United States') most esteemed artist printmaking facilities. image: details - California Mist watercolor and lithographic tusche on acetate studies. | | |
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This is one of those project goals I aimed for this past year that wasn't a sure thing. A big ambition I really wanted and saw as a move toward the future & the next phase of my studio practice. That unknown that usually receives a lot of shielding & protecting, often at the expense of chance & opportunity. The funding for this award comes from the Sustainable Arts Foundation. An amazing granting organization that focuses on providing growth opportunities to practicing artists... who are also raising young children. A juggle that's a struggle for all who fit in that category. Especially women artists who tend to shift into the primary caregiver role and leave their colors and concepts packed away for years. Watch along on Instagram as I bring my watercolor and pastel work to the press through the traditional medium of Lithography! I may even be able to put a short video or two together showing this rich technique. It's not your everyday kind of printmaking. |
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Kala Annual Exhibition Opening Reception: Thu. Feb 1, 6-8:30 pm February 1 - March 17, 2018 Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, CA I will have one of my encaustic California landscapes in this year's Kala Annual exhibit. This series combines the pochoir print technique with line drawing and encaustic painting materials. image: Untitled California 16, 24 x 26in, colored pastel and wax medium on panel, 2017 |
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Bench Project is still up! I am very excited and proud to participate in this immersive, temporary public art project. My watercolor diptych, California Mist 13/14, is currently on view through Bench Project, a site-responsive rotating public art program in the North Oakland neighborhood. Stop by MLK Jr. Way @ Aileen Street in Oakland and have a rest! image: California Mist watercolor diptych reproduced on 2 advertising panels, 24in x 14ft, 2017 | | |
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Happy New Year It has been amazing to learn this past year just how much will arrive to meet us when we make the effort to show up ourselves. How humbling and comforting it has been to accept the truth that progress does not always flow in one to one immediacy. Life lines are not time lines after all. And how important it is to honor that *the you* we all have not yet become is much more important than the one we are right now, or the one we were before.
So many of us wished this past year away. Wanting to start new. Waiting for the stars to dust our path and gift out moments of success and happiness.
It can be hard, but important to remember to see the worth and comforts edged around the more vibrant disappointments. Those gentle instances can breed a future of new chance, hope, and brilliance... as long as that is what we choose to water and tend.
Hello New Year, it’s nice to meet you! Wishing you all the warmest of days to come, Karen |
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