Kara Maria

Kara Maria is a contemporary American visual artist working in painting and mixed media based in San Francisco.[1] Her work reflects on political topics – feminism, war, and the environment. She borrows from the broad vocabulary of contemporary painting; blending geometric shapes, vivid hues, and abstract marks, with representational elements.[2]

Kara Maria
Born
Kara Maria Sloat

1968
Binghamton, New York, U.S.
OccupationArtist
Years active1993–present
Websitehttp://www.karamaria.com/

After beginning college at a music conservatory on the East Coast, transferring through a few different schools, and spending a year studying and traveling in Europe, Kara Maria moved to San Francisco in 1990 to attend the University of California at Berkeley. There she earned a BA in Art Practice in 1993, followed by an MFA in 1998.

According to the Sacramento News & Review: "If scientists could record a visual representation of human emotions, it seems plausible that they would look like Kara Maria's paintings. The San Francisco artist's nonrepresentational geometric shapes are exuberantly hued, well-defined and sharp-edged, and they are interrupted by euphoric swirls or by vague, cloudy patches and an occasional flash of a representational item, like a dog or a fly. They're layered, complicated and electric—just like the workings of the mind. Until scientists figure out how to live stream what human emotions look like and project them on a wall, Maria's work may be the closest thing we've got."[3]

Maria's work can be found in permanent collections including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; the di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA; the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA among others. She has been the recipient of awards such as a Masterminds Grant from the SF Weekly, San Francisco, CA; a grant from Artadia, New York, NY; and an Eisner Prize from the University of California, Berkeley.[4] In 2014-15 Maria was an Artist in Residence at Recology (the San Francisco dump).[5] She also completed a residency at Djerassi Artist in Residence Program in 2003,[6] and was a Lucas Fellow at the Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA for 2015–16.[7] Presses including Gallery 16, San Francisco;[8] Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO;[9] and Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA[10] have published her prints.

References
  1. http://cclarkgallery.com/artists/bios/kara-maria
  2. Sharon Spain (October 1, 2014) Recology Artist in Residence Program.
  3. Editor (February 12, 2015) "Emotional Electricity", Sacramento News & Review.
  4. http://www.artspace.com/kara_maria
  5. http://www.sfrecycling.com/index.php/about-air
  6. http://djerassi.org/alumniupdates.html
  7. http://montalvoarts.org/fellows/future/
  8. http://www.gallery16.com/index.php?page=editions
  9. http://www.sharksink.com/artists.asp?artists=42
  10. http://www.smithandersen.com/#!artists/c1xa5
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.