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Karen Smith
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Contemporary, American, Abstract Artist -
Collector of objects, ideas, experiences Karen A. Smith creates mixed media drawings, paintings and photographs. Born in New Jersey, Smith spent five years living and working in Switzerland. Then an additional 20 years travelling to Europe to create and exhibit art in Switzerland with the Artists Group Rosenberg. She currently resides, creates and exhibits in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Using her daily life to influence her art, Karen’s abstract paintings are expressive and the mark making is spontaneous. Building up layers and then breaking through them to reveal certain clues and hints to life’s unfolding puzzles. Smith’s drawings are more careful and contain gradations to add softness and to help join opposites. Karen is interested in the spaces between objects, situations, conversations and what happens in those spaces. Smith has worked as an artist and teacher in healthcare settings and has used art as a tool to help build community with various groups. She is a member of Artists of Bristol on the Delaware, Artists at Rosenberg, Switzerland and Artists Guild at the Conservatory, Doylestown. Karen’s art is in private collections in the United States and Switzerland.
selected group exhibitions:
2018 National Association of Women Artists "Abstract - The Space Between" Juried Show www.nawaonlinegallery.org
2018 Philadelphia Sketch Club "Art of the Flower" Juried Show
2018 Philadelphia Sketch Club "Small Oils Show" Juried Show
2018 Artsbridge Members' Show, Honorable Mention
2017 Bucks County Arts & Cultural Council "Who am I" Juried Show
2012 Artists at Rosenberg, Wila, Switzerland - 20th Anniversary Exhibition
solo exhibitions:
2015 & 2016 "May the flowers be with you." Photographs, Grundy Library, Bristol Borough Pennsylvania
2007 "Constellation" www.mouseum.ch Biel, Switzerland
1997 "Lino Cuts Made in Switzerland" George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
1994 "Speendrift" Contempo Galerie, Grenchen, Switzerland
achievement:
2011National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, Creative Centers' Training Institute "Creative Ageing" for Artists working in HealthCare New York, New York
1998-Present. Listed in Who's Who of American Women
1994-1997 Mystic Studios Trust - Live/Work Studio Grant, Boston Center for the Arts,
Boston, Massachusetts
education:
Apprenticeship, Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, New Jersey
MA Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Basel School for Design, Basel, Switzerland
BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Associates in Specialized Technology, Art Institute of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
See all of Karen's Art
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Contemporary, American, Abstract Artist -
Collector of objects, ideas, experiences Karen A. Smith creates mixed media drawings, paintings and photographs. Born in New Jersey, Smith spent five years living and working in Switzerland. Then an additional 20 years travelling to Europe to create and exhibit art in Switzerland with the Artists Group Rosenberg. She currently resides, creates and exhibits in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Using her daily life to influence her art, Karen’s abstract paintings are expressive and the mark making is spontaneous. Building up layers and then breaking through them to reveal certain clues and hints to life’s unfolding puzzles. Smith’s drawings are more careful and contain gradations to add softness and to help join opposites. Karen is interested in the spaces between objects, situations, conversations and what happens in those spaces. Smith has worked as an artist and teacher in healthcare settings and has used art as a tool to help build community with various groups. She is a member of Artists of Bristol on the Delaware, Artists at Rosenberg, Switzerland and Artists Guild at the Conservatory, Doylestown. Karen’s art is in private collections in the United States and Switzerland.
selected group exhibitions:
2018 National Association of Women Artists "Abstract - The Space Between" Juried Show www.nawaonlinegallery.org
2018 Philadelphia Sketch Club "Art of the Flower" Juried Show
2018 Philadelphia Sketch Club "Small Oils Show" Juried Show
2018 Artsbridge Members' Show, Honorable Mention
2017 Bucks County Arts & Cultural Council "Who am I" Juried Show
2012 Artists at Rosenberg, Wila, Switzerland - 20th Anniversary Exhibition
solo exhibitions:
2015 & 2016 "May the flowers be with you." Photographs, Grundy Library, Bristol Borough Pennsylvania
2007 "Constellation" www.mouseum.ch Biel, Switzerland
1997 "Lino Cuts Made in Switzerland" George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
1994 "Speendrift" Contempo Galerie, Grenchen, Switzerland
achievement:
2011National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, Creative Centers' Training Institute "Creative Ageing" for Artists working in HealthCare New York, New York
1998-Present. Listed in Who's Who of American Women
1994-1997 Mystic Studios Trust - Live/Work Studio Grant, Boston Center for the Arts,
Boston, Massachusetts
education:
Apprenticeship, Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, New Jersey
MA Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Basel School for Design, Basel, Switzerland
BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Associates in Specialized Technology, Art Institute of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
