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 Karen Sperling at the opening reception for the gallery show of her art in New York's Chelsea art district. |
About Karen SperlingKaren Sperling is a Los Angeles-based artist who is originally from New York. Her mother was an artist, and Karen has been drawing her whole life. She began oil painting in the 4th grade and has a BA from Ithaca College, where she majored in English and minored in art. In addition to life drawing and painting classes, Karen studied art history, including the Renaissance, and had the privilege of viewing in person the artwork she learned about in Florence and Rome during her junior year abroad as a student living in London. Karen has exhibited her art in New York's prestigious Chelsea art district, in Los Angeles and during Art Basel Miami, the country's biggest and most influential art event. Her portraits and paintings are held in private collections around the world.
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Exhibitions
2009AIR DE ART - SHOW # 5
Gallery Godo, Glendale, CA
Highly Toxic
Gallery Godo, Glendale, CA
2008
Art Basel
Lurie Gallery, Wynwood Arts district, Miami.
Art for Change
Fundraising Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
DLI
National Juried Exhibition
Recipient, first-round acceptance
Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY
2007
Damez
Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery, Chelsea, New York City
2005
Have You Seen Art Lately?
Art Institute of California Gallery, San Diego, CA
Artwalk
San Diego, CA
2003
Fusion
San Diego Center for the Moving Arts
Iron Artist Special Event
San Diego County Office of Education
Reviews
Art Beyond Reality and ImaginationKaren Sperling's work takes the viewer on a high octane
roller coaster ride beyond reality and imagination.
All aboard!
Bob Hogge
Gallery Director
Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery
Chelsea, New York City
Love your work--it stands out in a crowd.
Roger Loyd
Gallery Director
Gallery Loyd
Oslo, Norway
Contemporary Relevance
Karen Sperling's abstract art, by balancing between
representational and non-representational,
reinvents the traditional sensibilities of abstract
art, giving it a contemporary relevance.
Michael Savas
Chair of Illustration
Laguna College of Art and Design
California
Powerful, Gorgeous, Complex Abstracts
I LOVE your abstracts! They're powerful, gorgeous, complex.
They twist, go involuted, then shout!
Emotion, intellect, passion, revelation, transformation...
I see all these things in your abstracts.
Viewing your work makes me feel privileged to have
glimpsed into your soul--VERY few artists in my life
have evoked this kind of reaction from me.
Your art is like an urgent embrace, or a near-death
experience, wherein one receives a vision that can
transform, and also takes a while to process.
Wonderful work!
Bobbo Goldberg
Inspirational Art
I love your work. Everything happens for a reason,
and walking into the gallery at Art Basel gave me an
opportunity to see your work, which was a breath of
fresh air and inspiration.
I am very interested in your art. I respect you as
an artist and the work that you do and would love to
have this piece.
A collector
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