Karen Schifano
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Betty and Veronica at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
12/29/2022
Karen Schifano, “Tear-Sign,” 2022, flashe on canvas, 28 x 36 in.
KATHRYN MARKEL FINE ARTS PRESENTS A GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY ARTIST JOANNE FREEMAN
Betty and Veronica features paintings by Sarah Hinckley, Victor Kord, Margo Margolis, and Karen Schifano in New York City
January 5- February 11, 2023
Opening, Jan. 7th, 3-6pm
Press Release:
During the 1960’s and 70’s abstract artists were questioning the relationship
of painting to sculpture and the boundaries set between two and three
dimensional space. The ongoing exploration of space pushed painting towards
object-hood and created a hyper awareness of the painting's physical structure,
shape and edge. Emphasis placed on frames and edges implied both
boundaries and innity and led artists towards further experimentation with
process and structure. Mirroring qualities found in the more graphic
mediums of lm, photography and comics, abstract painters were disrupting the status quo of linear narrative as they considered multiple sides and angles to enter a picture plane.
Betty and Veronica was a comic strip that ran in mid-century America. The series featuring two opposing female characters, metaphorically suggests the ongoing overlap of high low culture. In the search for visual abstract language, artists in their studios have continuously balanced subjective inuence and spontaneous process with precedence and outside stimulus. The accomplished painters; Sarah Hinckley Victor Kord, Margo Margolis and Karen Schifano have built their work on historical precedence, but within that framework they speak of being alive in our time. In reverence to their predecessors, their work both charges and endures.
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