Karen Blair, BUZZ! BUZZ! Spotlight

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KAREN BLAIR

BUZZ! BUZZ! SPOTLIGHT

AUGUST 2023

KAREN BLAIR

Bio & Artist Statement

Karen Blair lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where the surrounding mountains provide daily inspiration for her work. Her own garden and those of friends inspire the flowers and trees also prevalent in the paintings and collages. There is constant tension between depicting the natural world and finding the essence of things through abstraction. Blair is known for her joyous use of color and for exuberant mark-making. She shares her life with her husband Jimmy Jackson and a Brittany named Remi.

Photo: Sean S. Thomas Fog Lifting, 2016 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $4,500

30 x 23 inches

$1,200

Daffodils in a Bowl I, 2018 Mixed media on oil paper

$1,200

Daffodils in a Bowl II, 2018 Mixed media on oil paper 30 x 23 inches

Late Summer, 2014

76 x 79 inches

$12,000

Oil on canvas

Coneflowers

Mixed media on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$8,000

Garden With Tulips

Mixed media on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$8,000

April Garden, 2021

Mixed media on canvas

44 x 40 inches

$6,000

June Morning

Mixed media on canvas

43 x 43 inches

$6,500

Cliff Walk, 2021 Mixed media on canvas 48 x 44 inches $7,000

Mixed media on canvas

43 x 43 inches

$6,500

Clear Tomorrow

Zinnias

Mixed media on canvas

30 x 30 inches

$3,500

Summer Solstice

Mixed media on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$12,000

Karen Blair

Abbreviated CV

Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA

EDUCATION

1976 BFA University of North Carolina Greensboro

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2023 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2023 Artist Collective, Charleston, SC

2023 Findings Art Store, Lynchburg, VA

SELECT COLLECTIONS

Allan Myers

Capital One, Richmond, VA

Phillip Morris, USA, Inc.

Markel Corporation

Hourigan Construction, Inc.

Troutman Sanders LLP

Le Clair Ryan, A Professional Corporation

Westminster Canterbury, Richmond

Dominion Resources

Couric Clinical Cancer Center, UVA Hospital

Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, VA

Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, VA

Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, NC

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