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Karena Karras
 
 
About the Artist

Karras is a 3rd generation Chicago native whose fantastic paintings consist of stylized human/animal/plant hybrids in surreal settings. The study of alchemy, philosophy and mythology richly inform much of Karras's work. ......"Karras is part of a direct line that goes back to the (surrealist) movement's founding in the early 20th century, connecting with Ernst and Dali by way of two female Europeans who learned from their brethren and went on to find their own voices in Mexico: Remedios Varo, originally from Spain, and Leonora Carrington, the British expatriate who lived with Ernst and with whom Karras formed a friendship when Carrington lived in Oak Park." ................Sept, 2005, Chicago Sun Times. Karras works mostly in the early Flemish style of painting and at times uses a magnifying glass to paint the painstaking detail evident when one studies her work closely in person. Karras's solo show "Surreal Hybrids" at a Chicago River North gallery was chosen by the Chicago Sun Times as one of the 'Top 10 Events of 2005' in the Dec. 18, 2005 article "Toulouse-Lautrec tops year in art, architecture '. ......"this Chicago artist proved that there's life left in the Surrealist tradition. A bold visual essay on metaphysical transformation, it conjures what I called "fear or acceptance of the body's impermanence, of its molecular connection with nature, and of its intertwined beauty and horror."..........Kevin Nance. Karras is also a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also attended the American Academy of Art (Chicago), the Naguib School of Sculpture (Chicago) and the Vogue School of Design (Chicago).
http://www.karenakarras.com/ .UK Surrealist Poet Anthony D Pritchard has been a great inspiration you can find his marvelous poems at http://stores.lulu.com/embrace

 
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"Ezgadi"

2005
6" by 4"

This piece is one of a series of 100 miniature surreal portraits that is still a work in progress

"Night Music"

1999
24" by 18"

"The Bath"

2003
14" by 12"

"Ostrich Dream"

2006
23 1/2" by 20"

2004
35

Triptych

"Hybrid"

2006
10" by 12"

"Reflection"

1995
oil on board
14" by 12"

"Tib"

2007
oil on board
6" by 4"

This is one of a series of 100 miniature surreal portraits which is a work still in progress
 
Education and biography
Karena Karras is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Naguib School of Sculpture, and the Vogue School of Design. Karras's one person show in Chicago's River North gallery district was picked as one of the 'Top Ten' Events' in the city of Chicago for 2005 by the 'Chicago Sun Times' art and architecture critic Kevin Nance. Karras was a recipient of the Smith Merit Scholarship while at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 
Future shows
"From What Are Dreams"
a two person show of work by
Doug Stapleton and Karena A Karras at the......
'Eyeporium Gallery'
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 3, 2009 - from 7-10 pm
1543 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 -
Exhibition - Through Friday, May 1, 2009.
for more information please call - 773.782.1744 or go to
http://beinart.org/modules/Word-Press/2009/03/31/karena-a-karras-and-doug-stapleton/
Doug Stapleton's work consists of fantastic mixed media collages of hybrid bird/human characters. inspiration: Medieval & Gothic painting, lives of saints, John James Audubon's birds, natural history fields guides, antique maps, bodybuidler magazines, Joss papers, fetishistic objects. His work is very 'persona fabulosa'—which is in part what he is trying to get at with the collages. Doug's fascination in the hybrid, the fragment, the acrostic message stems from my interest in representations of the natural world in mythology, religion and science. The image of the bird, in particular, has held the strongest fascination for me in how we clothe birds with symbolic meaning—marker of something ethereal or other-worldly, wholly not human, yet endowed with anthropomorphic character. Doug has studied Anthropology and Art History at the University of Delaware and earned an M.F.A. degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently he is a curator with a small museum, board member for a non-profit arts organization in Skokie, Illinois and teaches class at Columbia College Chicago. He has performed and collaborated in over fifty performances since 1989, working most recently as an artistic associate with The Seldoms, a contemporary dance theater company in Chicago. Stapleton holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute and is currently assistant curator at the Illinois State Museum. http://www.dougstapleton.blogspot.com/

Karras is currently with Morpho Gallery in Chicago http://www.morphogallery.com/links.htm and the UK gallery Artbay where you can purchase giclees of most of her paintings http://www.theartbay.co.uk/

Karras is currently showing in "Fata Morgana, The New Female Fantasists" in New York. For more information please go to
http://www.daboragallery.com/fata.html
 
Website:  www.karenakarras.com
 
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