Karen Adrienne

Fogo Blue #2

While I am working it is hard to separate labor, emotions and intentions.  And then there is chance.  This, like in life, can be the directional force and impetus for more conscious decisions. Some decisions seem imperative and while others are more spontaneous

These cyanotypes were made while at the AIR Tilting Residency on Fogo Island, the largest of the offshore islands of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.  This was a gorgeous place to create.  The body of work is a physical and emotional responses to the environment I experienced.

Various papers, including some braille papers, were prepared before I went to Fogo.  While on the island I collected various specimens of kelp and seaweed on the shore. These were exposed to the prepared papers in my makeshift contact frame.  After the exposure part of the process was complete I gold leaved the dried specimens and incorporated them into the work. 

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Education

MFA Printmaking, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Selected Awards

• Tilting Artist In Residence, Fogo Island, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada

• Anderson Ranch Fellowship

• Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission

• Artist Residency, Karl Hoffer Society, Berlin, Germany

• Artist Residency, Fundación, Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

• Carina House Residency, Monhegan Island, ME

• Residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, ME

• New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, NEA

• Maine Arts Commission Grant

• NEA & Arts International Travel Pilot Program Grant

• Libra Professorship Award, University of Maine, Augusta, ME

• Best Mixed Media, Exiguous Art, Taos, NM

Selected Exhibitions

• 2019
  Womens’ Art Alliance 40th Anniversary Exhibit, Hoogland Center for the Arts, Springfield, IL
  UMVA Exhibit, Portland, ME
  12th Biennial International Print Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

• 2018
  Stand Out Prints 2018; International Juried Print Exhibit, Highpoint, Minneapolis, MN
  Focus Printmaking 2, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME

• 2017
  Shelter, Circling the Square & Waterfall Arts Press
  Fragmentation/Illumination, Renaissance Gallery, Farmingdale, ME
  Paper Project: Gardiner & Waterville, ME

• 2016
  Boston Printmakers Members: A State of Mind, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
  A Sense of Place/El Sentido del Lugar, Danforth Gallery, University of Maine, Augusta & Metropolitan Cultural Center, Quito, Ecuador

• 2015
  Maine Collected, Points of View, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
  Ripple Effect, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, ME

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Cyanotype