From What Are Dreams" at the......'Eyeporium Gallery'
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 3, 2009 - from 7-10 pm
1543 N. Milwaukee
Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 - for more information please call - 773.782.1744 beinArt
Surreal Art News Blog - http://beinart.org/modules/Word-Press/
Stapleton's work consists of fantastic mixed media collage mixed media collages
of hybrid bird/human characters. Stapleton holds an MFA from the School of the
Art Institute and is assistant curator at the Illinois State Museum. His other
artistic forays revolve around performance. http://www.dougstapleton.blogspot.com/
Karras
is a 3rd generation Chicago native whose work consists of stylized human/animal/plant
hybrids. Alchemy, metamorphosis and mythology richly inform much of Karras's work.
Karras is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute. http://www.karenakarras.com/
To read a new interview with Karena A Karras by Italy's Claudio Parentela please
go to the 'permalink' at : http://variationsinnortherndegradations.blogspot.com/2009/03/interview-with-karena-karras.html
to read a different interview with Karena A Karras please go to : http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2007/01/interview_with_.html
Exhibition - Through Friday, May 1, 2009.
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The paintings by Karena A. Karras reflect a metamorphosis involving the intrinsic interplay between the collective unconscious and the tactile realm of the senses. Through the utilization of the study of mythology, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics, fantasy and the world of dreams, her work becomes a visual and tangible representation of an interplay between these worlds. The artwork acts as a doorway through which the collective unconscious can find it's way into the realm of our perceived reality and becomes integrated with the sensory and empirical aspects of the conscious mind's perceptions.
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This work, forceful yet lyrical, speaks a universal language based upon metaphysical ideologies and archetypes. Metamorphosis and transition play a large part throughout the work, serving to formulate a process of revelation unique to each individual interpretation. Images intoxicate and provoke as seemingly personal narratives transmute into a compelling surreal world. The work reveals what lies deep within us all and exists as Carl Jung termed, "the shadow side" of our nature. It rises to the surface, untouched by time or place, yet transforming and regenerating, or better, challenging our widely accepted ideas concerning reality.
Announcing........ 'MirrorRealms' a new first edition 178 page hardcover by UK surrealist poet Anthony Pritchard with full color reproductions of over 37 paintings by Karena A Karras for a review of this book please go to : http://upthestaircase.org/ and go to 'literary reviews' full color soft cover and black and white soft coverversions of 'MirrorRealms' are also available ......... 'MirrorRealms' is a collaborative work by poet Anthony Pritchard, and surreal artist Karena A. Karras, hovers on the line between stark fantasy and our own grim realities. Pritchard's poem "Sylvia Blue" perhaps says it best: Things are either dark, or they glow and do not last; they choke and sputter gracious in the bedraggled blacks like chimney sweep heads detached, while the sky has its back to the world............. to order 'MirrorRealms' go to: http://stores.lulu.com/embrace 'MirrorRealms' is Anthony Pritchard's fifth book and his first collaboration with Karena Karras. Pritchard's other books are titled : Embrace, Ephemerealms, Don't Become A Poet Like I Did, and Dreaming Inside of Streetlights. Ephemerealms is available in all bookstores via store order and most online retailers.
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