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<td style="width: 168px; vertical-align: top; background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="home.html">Home </a> <a title="Portfolio" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19s2VaW0opo1BNUm_fZEsnBdN8U3uxHrP4DVLHrgDDlA/present" target="_blank">Portfolio</a> <a href="sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Marc Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington and author of The Making of an American Icon: George Washington and Gilbert Stuart, said “(Karen’s work) …deserves recognition.”</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="../GWS/kdp.html#Education"><span style="color: #636872; font-family: Arial;"><img src="geniuslociidetail2.jpg" alt="Detail from Genius Locii" width="161" height="150" /></span></a></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Tom Patterson, author of Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Stranger from Another World reviews her portraiture, calling them “ … stunning pieces.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br /> <br /> </span><span style="color: #636872; font-family: Arial;"><img src="gws_dwg_blb.jpg" alt="Tulip Study" height="200" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br /> study of a Tulip Bulb<br /> <br /> </span>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Tom Patterson also says Karen’s paintings are “…outstanding images, meticulously rendered.” He calls them “…gems amid the (visual) jumble.”</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Writer Mai Li Munoz says, “Her nearly microscopic representations detail the delicacy of nature’s inhabitants</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br />Education</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">--Ohio University, Athens, OH</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">M.F.A. Graduate Studies, Studio Painting.1995 </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">--University of NC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica;">B.F.A., Major: Studio Arts- Painting & Printmaking, 1989 <br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br /> <br /> </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><big style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #959595;"><big><a title="Vita" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bUHAZNtDnkYQEIYLJVpe_FHtp0cc-d5Tc3ybslSPrP4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Vita</a>: Full Show Record </big></span></big></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Karen Parker was born and raised in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.</span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"> Her family consisted of farmers; people who worked with and lived on the land; people who understood the seasons and cycles of birth and death. Under this influence and with an inborn curiosity about the process of things, she grew up intrigued with the workings of the natural world.</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /> <br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"> At an early age she began to draw: people, animals, everyday scenes. At school, science and biology fascinated her. She wanted to know HOW THINGS WORKED. This drove her mother to distraction as she would come home to find the lawnmower, the clock or some other household item dismantled.</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /> <br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"> When it came to a career choice there was never any competition. As an artist, she could explore the why and wherefore, the minutia of the natural world and record them with heartbreaking precision. She received her BFA from UNC- Greensboro and her MFA from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /> <br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"> Her art is found in collections, literally, around the world; the most recent sales going to Hong Kong. Her work has won numerous awards and in 1998 the North Carolina Arts Council granted her full funding for her installation work.</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /> <br style="font-weight: bold; color: #333333;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"> She is talented, charming, funny and speaks with a refreshing honesty about life. Look at her paintings, her art, and then just imagine the beauty of how her mind works</span><br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-family: Bradley Hand ITC; font-size: small;">Alpha Yin</span></strong><br /> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Curator </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a title="email" href="mailto:phoebemoon333@gmail.com?subject=ghostwoman">New Frontier Gallery</a></span></div>
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