Carnegie Art Museum update for Jan. 23 — Artist’s Gallery Talk: Karen Kitchel

Thursday, January 24

6 pm.     $5  / members free

Reservations appreciated 805-385-8254 or lhoran@carnegieam.org

These paintings continue Karen Kitchel’s longstanding commitment to make landscape paintings that transcend conventional portrayals of scenery, location, or nostalgic attempts to interpret “nature”. Widely recognized for her multiple-panel installations of american grasslands and urban botany, this is the first west coast solo exhibition of her landscape paintings using asphalt emulsion.

Kitchel has worked throughout the coastal and interior west for more than thirty years, receiving her M.F.A. in painting from Claremont Graduate University in 1982. Her work is in the permanent collections of multiple museums and private collections nationally and abroad, including the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Tucson Art Museum, the Joslyn Museum, the U.S. State Department, and the National Museum of Poland. She is represented by Robischon Gallery of Denver, CO, and Gerald Peters Gallery of Santa Fe, NM and New York, NY. She currently lives and works in Ventura, CA.

*image Waterway #4 (Clear Creek), asphalt emulsion, tar, wax,powdered pigments, and shellac on canvas by KarenKitchel © 2016, 50×50 in. Courtesy of the Artist and
Robischon Gallery, Denver.

On View through February 17

recent landscape paintings by Karen Kitchel

image: Karen Kitchel © 2016 Waterway #8 (Lake Casitas), asphalt emulsion, tar, wax, powdered pigments, shellac/canvas; 50″x50″ courtesy the artist.

In the aftermath of the 2017 Thomas Fire, Luther Gerlach turned his camera on the destruction and regeneration spanning Ventura county, using chemical elements gathered from the landscape to bring the power of these natural forces to life.

ARTIST’S GALLERY TALK   – Luther Gerlach                                Thursday, January 31     6 pm     $5 / members free

Reservations appreciated 805-385-8254 or lhoran@carnegieam.org

image: Skeletal Remains, unique silver gelatin print by Luther Gerlach, 2018.

COLOR FLOW
February 1 -March 3, 2019

ANDY LEPE’s recent geometric abstract paintings created during his guest artist studioship on exhibit along with other of  his works.

Reception
Friday, February 1   5:30-7:30 pm      free admission

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