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Karen Marston is a painter living and working in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Karen serves on the Board of Trustees of NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. where she was instrumental in the opening of the NURTUREart Gallery in Williamsburg, and hosts Muse Fuse, an informal monthly art salon with many notable guest speakers.
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My most recent paintings are about breathing, anatomy and nature—their implications, connections and meanings. These works were initially inspired by the arresting sight of many large trees marooned in a flooded river bank, their limbs reaching up and out, tangled branches spreading like our own bronchial tree, sustained by a root system analogous to veins and arteries. On one level I am exploring the essential physicality of the heart, lungs, breath, water and nature, repetitions of patterns and structures in the body and the environment. On another level a metaphor unfolds, speaking of pain, loss and regeneration. Internal organs, keenly felt deep and unseen within the body, serve both literally and figuratively as signals for strong emotions. In the relationship between interior and exterior, water becomes the unconscious body, both drowning and nourishing—reflective on the surface, much hidden beneath, inside. |
| Karen Marston's work has recently been seen in: "Reconstruction", curated by Station Independent Projects at Chashama in NYC, "Newark Between Us", curated by Rupert Ravens in Newark, NJ, "Respirations", a Solo Exhibition at Taller Boricua, in East Harlem, and "Beautiful Dreamer" curated by David Gibson at Cleveland’s Spaces. She earned her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986. |