"Shifting Visions" Michael Kareken DRAFT

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MICHAEL KAREKEN SHIFTING VISIONS

September 7 - October 12, 2024

MICHAEL KAREKEN

Michael Kareken, a Tacoma, Washington native, moved to Minnesota in 1993 after ten years of studying and working in New York. Kareken has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, The McKnight Foundation, Arts Midwest, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vogelstein Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Kareken was a recipient of the Louise Nevelson Award for Art from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and an award for printmaking from the National Academy of Design. He is Professor Emeritus at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he taught painting and drawing from 1996-2023.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My recent work explores subjects drawn from close to home - a circumscribed world of neighborhood streets and houses, interiors and window views. The work is a response to the experience of the past two years, when contact was restricted and routines disrupted. These changes brought with them a heightened awareness of the spaces and places of daily life, of things overlooked or taken for granted. People are absent from the images, but their presence is implied in porch and window lights, backyard patio furniture, parked cars and snowy footprints. The work focuses primarily on the viewer’s relationship to the depicted scene, with subjective or off-balance perspectives suggesting an observer’s presence within the space.

Night Lights

2024 |gouache on paper | $___. image: 22 x 30" | frame: 29.75 x 36.75"

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Dreams and Realities

2024 | gouache on paper | $___. image: 22 x 30" | frame: 29.5 x 37.75"

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Fragments

2024 | gouache on paper | $___.

image: 21 x 28.5" | frame: 28.75 x 36"

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Twilight 2024 | gouache on paper | $___. image: 21 x 29" | frame: 29.5 x 36.75"

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Camera Obscura 2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $___. image: 18 x 24" | frame: 24.25 x 29.75" INQUIRE

Dining Room Reflections 2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $___. image: 18 x 24" | frame: 24.25 x 29.75" INQUIRE

House and Universe 2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $___. image: 18 x 24" | frame: 30.25 x 37.5"

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Remembrance 2024 | charcoal on paper | $___. image: 29 x 39.5" | frame: 36 x 46"

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Apparition 2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $__. image: 24 x 32" | frame: 31 x 38.5" INQUIRE

Shifting Visions 2024 | gouache on paper | $___. image: 15 x 21" | frame: 22.5 x 27.75"

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Lost Light 2024 | gouache on paper | $___. image: 10.25 x 14.5" | frame: 17.25 x 21"

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Evocation 2024 | gouache on paper | $___. image: 13 x 17" | frame: 19.75 x 23.5"

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Reflections 2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $___. image: 16 x 12" | frame: 21.5 x 17.25"

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Daydream

2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $___. image: 16 x 12" | frame: 21.5 x 17.25"

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Chance Encounter

2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $___. image: 24 x 32" | frame: 24.25 x 29.75"

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Winter Passage 2024 | conte crayon on duralar | $___. image: 24 x 32" | frame: 30.75 x 38.5"

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Dusk

2023 | gouache on paper | $1600. image: 11.75 x 15.5" | frame: 18 x 21.75"

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