Counterpassant, 2005

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"My work fuses abstraction and representation. The pieces usually begin as abstractions, but as they progress, I add in figures. For me, the figures are analogous to nouns in a sentence. The rest of the painting seems like a swirl of verbs and adjectives, and the noun anchors the image. A wide variety of issues - from environmental crisis to international politics and war - influence my art making.

I hope the work communicates a sense of humor and playfulness as well as an engagement with the state of the world we live in today." - Kara Maria

Kara Maria is a visual artist working in painting and mixed media. Her work reflects on political topics - feminism, war, and the environment. She borrows from the broad vocabulary of contemporary painting; blending geometric shapes, vivid hues, and abstract marks, with representational elements.

Her recent work features miniature portraits of disappearing animals, focusing attention on the alarming rate of extinction now being caused by human activity. Maria was born in Binghamton, New York. She received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States at venues including the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno; the Cantor Center at Stanford University; the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; and the Katonah Museum of Art in New York; among many others.

Maria’s work has garnered critical attention in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Art in America. Maria has been awarded artist residencies at the Montalvo Arts Center, Recology Artist in Residence Program, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and at the de Young’s Artist Studio. She has been a recipient of many awards and honors, including a grant from Artadia, an Eisner Prize in Art from UC Berkeley, and the Masterminds Grant from SF Weekly.

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the San Jose Museum of Art, the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, the di Rosa in Napa, and Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, among others.

Her work will be on display at the Anglim/Trimble Gallery (San Francisco, CA) from May 1 - June 26, 2021

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