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About the Artist
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Painting the figure colorfully

Karen is a self taught painter, who spent her college years at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, sampling just about every department available, with textile and fashion design eventually seizing most of her attention.  Although based in the home economics department, that course of study required a fair amount of drawing classes from the art department, and the introduction to life drawing was made.  Many years and many experiences later, the focus of Karen’s work is again with the figure, intrigued by the stories that can be told with paintings of people, their postures, and their relationships to each other.  “I have been known to say that a painting that’s clever or pretty is not enough---it has to tell a story that holds my interest.”  Karen’s current work is acrylic paint on canvas, with the occasional mural added in just for fun.


I paint with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas.  Occasionally I do ‘color sketches’ on paper which sometimes end up at exhibit as matted paintings.   I do not make reproductions of any of my paintings, so each one that you look at is a unique rendering of my point of view.

Enjoy, and thanks for looking!
Karen

 


Education:

  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, art and textile design emphasis

  Various continuing education and workshops

 

Recognition: 

  2010:  selected for exhibit, Galex 44 national juried exhibit, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois
  2010:  selected for exhibit, "Faces", juried exhibit, Upstream People Gallery, online/Omaha, Nebraska
  2009:  solo show, State of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa
  2008:  selected for Wanda Skogerboe exhibit, Pearson Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, Iowa
  2008:  10/3 featured artist "The Daily Palette", University of Iowa
  2008:  Three person show "Go Figure", Pearson Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, Iowa
  2007:  solo show Sanford Art Gallery, Cherokee, Iowa

  2007:  three person show, WineBar Art gallery, Arnolds Park, Iowa
  2007:  selected for Wanda Skogerboe exhibit, Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, Iowa

  2006:  selected for four person show, Deer Path Gallery, Lake Forest, Illinois

  2005:  selected for Maestros and Masterpieces exhibit, Quad City Art Center, Rock Island, Illinois

  2004:  solo exhibit, Fairfield Art Guild, Fairfield, Iowa

             Award of Merit, Boulder Art Fair, Boulder, Colorado

             Award of Merit, Valley Junction Art Fair, West Des Moines, Iowa

  2002:  3rd in show, Missouri River Untamed, Bismarck Art and Galleries Association, Bismarck, ND

   

 

Professional Affiliations:

  Arts on Grand

  Lakes Art Center

  Artslive
 
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