Karen Green exhibit opens at Space in South Pasadena May 4

How on Earth - New Paintings by Karen Green

and

Only LA area book signing of Bough Down

(published by Siglio Press, LA)

Exhibit Dates May 4, 2013 - June 15, 2013

Opening Reception and Book Signing

May 4th, 2013 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Following another sold-out show, Karen Green returns to SPACE for her fifth solo

show with a new body of work - How on Earth - inspired by and celebrating the

release of Green's book from Siglio Press, Bough Down.

Lauded by critics and fellow authors, Bough Down includes images from Green's

2011 series - Tiny Stampede - which were created in conjunction with the prose,

and which take on new meaning in this context.

The paintings in How on Earth are vivid and expressionistic plein air landscapes

in oil on canvas, and different at first glance than Green's previous work. A closer

look, however, reveals her love for integrating text. The text figures differently in

each image: in some, repeated and forming, or covering the image, and in others

partially hidden - carved in with a palette knife or pencil, or painted into the sky.

Taking each text fragment, Green looked for a fitting scene, and created each

image accordingly, repurposing and transforming the words by their new, natural

context. Isolated from the manuscript, and dropped into nature, the words take

on a more literal meaning, yet maintain the sense of depth and mystery, which

continue to make Green's work compelling to old and new fans alike.

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