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Richard H. Karnatz
 
 
About the Artist

My main inspiration has been To try and share the joy I find in color. It remains so entrancing to me. Being a visually disabled artist (I survived a Traumatic Brain Injury in 1992)COLOR became more important to me as I lost visual acuity. Over my thirty plus years as a working artist I have enjoyed access to many media. Both visual and adio, as a band member and composer. I have settled on this mode of working which allows me to share meaning and my feelings more directly with the other participants in the equation.

Though a printmaker, I use the silkscreen like a brush to paint my canvas with color and image. I have chosen to work on canvas and continue the research side of my craft. Something imbued in me by Donald Saff at USF Graphicstudio (first fine art atelier I worked at). This has allowed me to developed a three dimensional water-based printing method unique to my studio, Bent Fish Editions.

 
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TurnPike

1991
Silkscreen ink on REEVES BFK
81 cm X 101.5 cm

TurnPike
A found photograph from the 1958 world book encyclopedia. I was mesmerized by it.

Ode to Archimedes

1992
Silkscreen ink on REEVES BFK
81cm X 101.5cm

Ode to Archimedes
Six color silkscreen celebrating an invention that revolutionized the world even more than sliced bread.

Tienanmen Chair

2007
Acrylic and ink on canvas. Upholstered on chair frame.
88cm-H 44 cm-W 48cm-D

Tienanmen Chair
A mixture of word play and image-in-nation

Burned Out Light Bulb

2002
ink and Akrylic on cancas with printed pnosphorescent additions
51 X 71cm

early 3-D printed impasto work.

Blue

2004
acrylic and ink on canvas.
54cm X 76cm

Can color exist without a descriptor. Is it the word blue, or does color only need it's opposite to differentiate itself from chaos?

Multi-Colored

2004
Acrylic, ink and printed impasto on canvas
51 X 76

Part of a series exploring words, color and meaning. Just my love of color expressing itself in the work.

3-D color

2004
acrylic on canvas and printed impasto
9 2X 72

4th street view

2009
digital photography
22 megabytes

4th street view
Trying to document the urban decay of a small Texas town that Scott Joplin and Ross Perot come from. It was a North, south and East West railroad crossing. Al Capone called it "Little Chicago. It supplied much of his liquor.

Gusher

20079
digital photography
22 megs

Gusher
Watching the infrastructure literally crumble from beneath my feet. It's not hard to believe this town was "Rat Capital of America" for nearly twenty years. Part of my "MEN WORKING" series

They Bleed

2008
digital photography
20 megabytes

They Bleed
an observation on the federal reserves manipulation of monetary policy.

morning light

2009
Photography
variable

early morning, walking the dog.

Ace of Clubs

2009
Digital Photography
variable (28 megabyte file)

Ace of Clubs
this is the work accepted into the TRACH 5 states, regional Juried Show.
 
Education and biography
Apprenticeship with painter Jim Yale. 1975-'76

Apprenticed with 5 women artisans at calabash Pottery and Clayworks. 1976-'77 (18 month CETA Grant)

Apprenticed with sculptor Frank Williams. 1977-'79 (18 month CETA Grant)

University of Arkansas' School of Fine Arts, Fayetteville. 1984-'86

Finished BFA in photography WITH hONORS at:
University of South Florida, Tampa. 1986-'88

Studied Alternate photographic processes at the new school for the Visual Arts, Tampa, with artist Jack Breit, 1988.

Color Xerography published in "Modern Photography" magazine

Began Work at University of South Florida's Graphicstudio, center for research in the

Worked silkscreen department at ken tyler graphics.

Managed Studio Heinricci, a fine art print shop in Manhattan,
Survived Traumatic Brain Injury in 1192.

Began study at Fashion Institute of Technology studying the use of computers and the application to digital photography in art and pre-press.

continued studied in computers application in manipulation of photographic images with artist Lawrence Gartel at Pratt Manhattan.

My designs were been bought by a Japanese clothing company and sold in Tokyo. The gift stores at the MOMA, Whitney, Fashion Institute for Technology and other museums also carried . This earned me a write up in the style section of the New York Times.

Also, while living in Manhattan, I was the artist in residence at several restaurants, Banks and bars. As soon as I had a new body of work finished, it would be installed in the Bendex Diner on first ave at 10th st. and I would move the present show to one of the other venues I was currently showed at.

I recently won second place in a 5 state show at the Texarkana Arts and Humanities Council.
 
Future shows
My next show is the 5 State Juried show at TRACH, the Texarkana Arts And Humanities Council. Sat. is awards ceremony. I will update then.

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