About
BIO
Karen is a native born Californian currently living and working in Massachusetts. She has been an artist most of her life, mentored for many years by her father who was an architect and an artist. Her early art included watercolors, tapestry weaving and contemporary quilts. Currently, she is working on mixed media, digital collage, encaustic and art quilts. She works out of studios in her home and at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA.
RESUME
Gallery Representation: The Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA
Curatorial Experience:
2010 Paste-up Collage Exhibition, ALL Arts Gallery, Lowell, MA
2008 Paste-up Collage Exhibition, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA
2007 Paste-up Collage Exhibition, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA
Selected Exhibitions:
2011
Distressed, two person show, The Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA
2009
The Fabrication of Imagination, ALL Arts Gallery, Lowell, MA
2009 Women of Letters, 2 person show, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA
2008 ALL Winter Salon, Lowell, MA
2008 Other Times, Other Places, two person show, The Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA
2008 Collage Mania, Virginia A. Spiegel fundraiser Fiber Art for A Cause
2008 Baker’s Dozen Collage Exchange, Sale and Exhibition, New Zealand
2007 Scrolls: A Fiber Interpretation, Western Ave Studios, Lowell, MA
2007 The Women of Western Ave. at the Whistler, Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2007 Reinventing Traditions: Art in Fiber and Cloth, Bedford Free Public Library, Bedford, Massachusetts.
2007 Quotations Beautiful from Minds Profound, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2007 Reinventing Traditions: Art in Fiber and Cloth, Bedford Free Public Library
2006 The Book and The Word, Owen Smith Shuman Gallery, Groton Public Library, Groton, Massachusetts.
2006 Quotations Beautiful from Minds Profound, Lowell Fiber Studio, Western Ave Studios, Lowell, Massachusetts
2006 ALL Fiber show, Lowell , MA
2006 Small Works II Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, Massachusetts
2006 New Volumes, 119 Gallery, Lowell MA
2006 Fire: Glass meets Metal, Lexington MA
2006 Changing Perspective , traveling show
2005 ALL show, Lowell , MA
2005 Panorama, Gallery at King's Corner, Summer
2005 Mud Season , Gallery at King's Corner, Spring
2004 Annual Quilt Show, Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster , MA
2004 Lowell Art Walk, Friends Fabric Art, Lowell , MA
2004 Lowell Art Walk, Lush Beads, Lowell , MA
2004 Lowell Art Walk, Coffee Mill , Lowell , MA
2004 Equality Now , Locus Media Gallery , New York Show, ATC
Private Collections: Massachusetts, California and Oregon
Awards: Jurors Choice Award, Annual Quilt Show, Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, MA, 2004