"Prints & Drawings" by Michael Kareken

PRINTS & DRAWINGS MICHAEL KAREKEN March 24 - April 18, 2020

MICHAEL KAREKEN

Kareken, a Tacoma, Washington native, moved to Minnesota in 1993 after ten years of studying and working in New York. Kareken has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the McKnight Foundation, Arts Midwest, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vogelstein Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Kareken was the 1997 recipient of the Louise Nevelson Award for Art from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and in 2000 won an award for printmaking from the National Academy of Design. Most recently, Kareken received a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. He currently teaches painting and drawing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

ARTIST STATEMENT My recent drawings & prints explore the landscape where I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The work focuses on locations that have special meaning to me: the woods and shoreline of the San Juan Islands and the Olympic Peninsula. As a child I was overwhelmed by the drama of this landscape – its scale and ever-shifting quality of light and atmosphere made a tremendous impression on me. Those early experiences remain vivid in my imagination.

The prints are meant to convey the beauty and mystery I felt and still feel in those places. I chose to restrict myself to black and white for this body of work, partly in response to the tonal quality of the Northwest landscape, but primarily to establish a psychological tone and evoke a sense of memory, reflection, and distance on the subject. Many of images take a subjective point of view of the landscape – looking up, looking down, or moving in close – as a way to suggest a “child’s-eye” sense of scale or perspective.

-Michael Kareken

Michael Kareken Humphrey Head 2019 | conte on duralar $3,400.00 image: 24 x 36" | frame: 32.5 x 44"

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Michael Kareken Branches, Humphrey Head 2020 | watercolor monotype $2,000.00 image: 15 x 18.25" | frame: 25.5 x 28.5"

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Michael Kareken Evening Light, Humphrey Head 2020 | conte on duralar $3,400.00 image: 24 x 38" | frame: 32.25 x 46"

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Michael Kareken Lake Quinalt Deadfall 2020 | watercolor on denril $3,400.00 image: 24 x 36" | frame: 32 x 44"

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Michael Kareken Roots, Hoh Rainforest 2020 | conte on duralar $1,650.00 image: 12.5 x 16" | frame: 18 x 23"

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Michael Kareken Tree Near Second Beach 2020 | oil monotype | $2,400.00 image: 15.75 x 23.5" | frame: 27 x 34.25"

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Michael Kareken Roots and Trunks Second Beach 2020 | conte on duralar $3,400.00 image: 23 x 36" | frame: 31 x 43.75"

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Michael Kareken Roots, Second Beach 2020 | conte on duralar $1,650.00 image: 16 x 12" | frame: 21.25 x 17.25"

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Michael Kareken Trees Near Shark Reef 2020 | watercolor on denril $3,200.00 image: 22 x 34" | frame: 30 x 42

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Michael Kareken Trees Near Upright Channel 2020 | watercolor on denril $3,200.00 image: 22 x 34" | frame: 30 x 40.5"

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Michael Kareken Shadows 2020 | watercolor monotype $2,200.00 image: 16 x 24" | frame: 25.5 x 33.25"

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Michael Kareken Shadows Humphrey Head 2020 | watercolor monotype $1,200.00 image: 9 x 13.5" | frame: 17.75 x 21.75"

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Michael Kareken Trees Near Beach Four 2020 | watercolor monotype $1,200.00 image: 16 x 20.5" | frame: 26 x 30.25"

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Michael Kareken Sea Stacks Second Beach 2020 | oil monotype $1,200.00 image: 10.75 x 14.5" | frame: 16.5 x 20"

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Michael Kareken Shark Reef I 2020 | conte on duralar $750.00 image: 10.75 x 14.5" | frame: 16.5 x 20"

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Michael Kareken Evening San Juan Islands 2020 | conte on duralar $850.00 image: 7.5 x 12" | frame: 12.5 x 17"

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Michael Kareken Shark Reef III 2020 | conte on duralar $750.00 image: 7.5 x 8" | frame: 12.5 x 13"

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Michael Kareken Shark Reef II 2020 | conte on duralar $750.00 image: 6 x 8.25" | frame: 11x 13"

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Michael Kareken Spencer Spit 2020 | conte on duralar $850.00 image: 6 x 12.5" | frame: 11 x 17.5"

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Michael Kareken Woods Near Upright Channel 2019 | conte on duralar $3,200.00 image: 22 x 33" | frame: 30.5 x 41"

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