New works on canvas will be on view February 6-April 5, 2025. These large, doubled images echo reflections in a mirror, or the retro child’s toy, ViewMaster.
Karen Kitchel©2024, Double Flow, acrylic & oil/canvas, 48”x98”
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"Cheatgrass Improvisation" opens at Vita Art Center February 24, 2024
Nine new oil paintings featuring variations on this troublesome weed debut at Vita Art Center in Ventura, CA. This invasive plant never looked so good! On view at 28. W. Main Street, Ventura, through April 6, 2024.
Karen Kitchel©2024 “Cheat Screen”, oil/canvas, 84”x95”
"Garden/Plot" is on view in Riverside, CA
It is wonderful to work with Curator Todd WIngate again at the Riverside Art Museum!
Cultivated, abandoned, wild, or industrialized, the landscape paintings on view reveal
human interference everywhere. Utilizing multiple images and unconventional materials, I present open-ended stories that challenge or cultural definitions of Nature.
"American Contemporaries" is on view at Gerald Peters Gallery, NYC
A small group of gallery artists working in a realist vocabulary combine highly-focused energy in this winter presentation at Gerald Peters Gallery,
24 E. 78th Street, New York, NY 10075
On view December 6, 2021-January 31, 2022
"Furious Garden" on view at Claremont Museum of Art
After multiple pandemic-related delays, “Furious Garden” is on view at the Claremont Museum of Art. Featuring major works by Karen Kitchel, Deena Capparelli, and CJ Jilek, the exhibition and related events will span September 3-November 27, 2021.
Karen Kitchel © 2020 detail “Three Sisters”; mixed media/burlap