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newsgroup showMIC: CHECK Sideshow Gallery319 Bedford Ave, Willamsburg Bklyn, NY 11211Opening on Sat. Jan 7th, 2012 from 6 to 9pmopen friday through monday (12-6pm)718-486-8180group showFeaturing art by Karin Batten, Jason A. Cina, Analiese De SawBroadway Suites Art Gallery192 Lexington Ave, 2nd FloorAugust 3rd - March 2nd 2012review"Art From Tragedy"by Robin Millerin The Advocate Magazinereview"Art From The Ashes"by Ron Devlinin The Reading Eagle
"There is always color, it has yet to become light." Pierre Bonnard
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AROD
VALLEY OF PYRAMIDS
MURGIS
VIM AND VIGOR
MEDLEY
GOSSAMER
HAFFKRUG
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SCORE
ROTATION
VEILED
GRAVITY
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NEW YORK #41
LOWER MANHATTAN
ST. PAUL CHAPEL
EAST RIVER
LOOKING WEST
ROCKEFELLAR CENTER
WINTER
NEW YORK HARBOR
NEW YORK #38
WHITE SILENCE
NEW YORK #40
GW BRIDGE
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
WW AT NIGHT
NEW YORK no.39
NORTH COVE
LOST VIEW
GREAT LAWN
ELLIS ISLAND
NEW YORK #42
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THE BATTERY #6
NORTH COVE #2
EAST RIVER #3
EMPIRE STATE BLDG #7
EMPIRE STATE BLDG #6
NYC 5
EMPIRE STATE BLDG 2
NYC 8
EAST RIVER 2
THE BATTERY 4
ST. PAULS CHAPEL 6
EMPIRE STATE BLDG 5
TWINS OF NY 4
EAST RIVER #1
DOWNTOWN FROM WTC#2
NYC 11
DOWNTOWN FROM WTC #1
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MALAGA
AURORA BOREALIS
THE GIFT BOX
OUTER WORLD
BLACK MOON
MY NEW WORLD
BUESUM
FLOW OF WATER
WANDERERS
AN EDGE
REFUGE
ALLEGRO
HAMBURG CRAFT
FULLNESS OF TIME
LETTER TO THE UNIVERSE
ALMUNECA
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MALIBU BEACH
ABOVE YELLOW
CUMMINGTON #13
LEAP OF GRACE
PASSAGE
ETERNAL ROAR
WHITE CAP
MURMUR OF WAVES
BURST
REVERIE
NORTH COUNTRY
CALYPSO
DAY DREAMS OF REFUGE
MANGANESE GARDEN
THE REACH
ELEGANT DOSINIA
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About
In my recent abstract paintings I continue to improvise with color, texture and shape. In the last 3 years I have been informed by my travels and a residency at Valparaiso, Mojacar, in southern Spain. Mojacar is a magical world of color, light and shade where the influences of the Moorish culture are still visible. The deep azure of the sky and the matching doors and windows set against the whitewashed houses are a symphony of white and blue. It is a spectrum of brightness and light, as it exists in time and space. Light illuminates and captures the exotic atmosphere and textures of the land and sea in my paintings. Pods, seeds, shells and rocks become abstract shapes and patterns. My interest in the natural world goes back to high school where my biology teacher, in Hamburg, Germany took us on weekly field trips to draw and identify trees, ferns and mushrooms. The many different materials I use in my paintings create complex and poetic works layered with meaning of open seas and land. I incorporate enhanced photos from my international travels with hand colored rice paper, silk, velvet and felt to add depth and texture. Soil and black magna contrast with washes of acrylic and water-soluble crayons. I play organic shapes against geometric patterns, circles and diagonals with charcoal, graphite, colored pencils and dyes. Some forms are scraped and layered while others are fully present. I work spontaneously and intuitively; losing all boundaries, like swimming in a vast sea.
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EducationMFA, Hunter College, New YorkBFA, Central Saint Martins College, LondonBorn Hamburg, GermanyOne-Person Exhibitions2011 Spectrum of Brightness, June Kelly Gallery, New York"Cathartic Art: Remembering September 11th, West Baton Rouge Museum, LA2010 Together, Napa Art Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic2006 My New World, June Kelly Gallery, New York2003 Manhattan, Show Walls, The Durst Organization, New York2002 View from WTC, Corridor Gallery, Pfizer Inc., New York2000 Karin Batten New York From Above, The Lobby Gallery, The Durst Organization NY 1999 Inside the Sea, June Kelly Gallery, New York1996 Karin Batten: Paintings, 850 Third Avenue Lobby Gallery, New York1995 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York, catalogue1994 Paintings by Karin Batten, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, catalogueKarin Batten Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York1993 Karin Batten (USA) Bilder X-TRA, Zürich1992 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New YorkKarin Batten New York, Galerie a16 Zürich1991 Drawings, Galerie 20 Fine Arts, Paris 1990 New Paintings, essay by Margaret Sheffield, June Kelly Gallery, New York1988 New Paintings: Karin Batten & Stan Brodsky June Kelly Gallery, New York1984 Karin Batten, 1984 Gallery, Lansing, MichiganUnholy Alliance, Caldwell College, New JerseyContamination, Partisan Gallery, Toronto,1982 Alternative Liste, BerlinAtombilder aus Disneyland, Galerie 70, Berlin1981 Contamination, Gallery 1199, New YorkGroup Exhibitions2011 9-11 Memorial Exhibit: Crises and Reaction, Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks, PA Its All Good!! Apocalypse Now, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NYA Diverse Look at Urban Life, Rubenstein Gallery, NY2010 Its A Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2009 Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York2008 Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Gallerries, NY2007 Remembering Ruth:25 Years of Giving (Ruth Chenven Foundation), NoHo Gallery, NY2006 Its About Real Estate, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York2005 Change I, Federico Secondo Galleria, Bari, Italy2002 Re-Imagining New York, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND2001 The New York City Skyline, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York1999 Summer Tides, Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York1998 Concerns, Chamot Gallery, New Jersey, 19981997 Dialogue Est/Ouest, Centre dArt du Puy Guérin, Vayolles, France; catalogue1996 Promenade Art Show, BACA/The Brooklyn Arts Council, New York1995 Visual Evidence, presented by Art Initiatives The New York Law School 1994 Sensual Landscapes, The Shirley Fiterman Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York1993 7th Annual Women in the Visual Arts Exhibition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT1993 13 Emerging Artists, The Viking Gallery, LTD., Merrick, New York1993 New Works, Fine Art Gallery of Southwest Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA1991 The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA1988 New York City: Works by 21 Artists, One Penn Plaza, New YorkThe Changing Face of Soho, Arts for Transit, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York1987 Exit Art, New York,1986 The Emerging Collector, New YorkThe La Lucha Murals, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York1985 Arresting Images, 10 on 8, New YorkLa Lucha Continue, La Plaza Cultural, New York1984 FacultyShow, Parsons Exhibition Center, New YorkArtists Call Against Military Intervention in Central America, Work Gallery, New YorkAbstractions, The First Womens Bank, New YorkAdieu 84-Variierte Phantasmen, Deplanakunsthalle, Berlin1983 New Beginnings, The Pentonville Gallery, London, catalogueMunicipal Gallery, Burlington, VermontTerminal New York, US Army Terminal Brooklyn, New York1982 Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne New JerseyCollectionsNational September 11 Memorial and Museum, NYPfizer Inc.,New YorkDavidson College, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NCGalerie 70, BerlinThumb Gallery, Ltd., LondonThe Federal Reserve Bank of NY, East Rutherford, NJReliance National, New YorkHotel Millenium, New YorkSalomon Brothers Inc.,New YorkContinental Insurance Company, New YorkPhilipp Brothers Inc., New YorkEuropean Illustration, Publishing House, LondonReviews and Articles2011 Art from Tragedy, by Robin Miller, The Advocate, LA2011 Williamsburg's Sideshow Gallery Features a Kaleidescope of 450 Metro Artists, Adrian FussellThe Big Show at Sideshow, Joanne Mattera Art BlogA Diverse Look at Urban Life", James Horner, Manhattan Fine Arts Examiner2010 TOGETHER, the Path from Painting to Project, catalogue, Napa Gallery, Prague, CR New American Paintings, Anniversary Edition, The Open Studio Press2009 ON THE WALL, book by Janet Braun-Reinitz & Jane Weissman2008 Interview with Jon Gordon, on Future Tense, American Public Media2004 Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils World Trade Center Artist Residency, 1997-2001, book by Moukhtar Kocache, Erin Shirreff, Liz Thompson2002 Windows on the world, Local Life Arts, 8/9/02, Carol Graham2002 Farm is haven for anxious artist, Brattleboro Reformer, Vol9NO.165, Willow L. Dannible2002 North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota Alumni Review, 8-9/02, ND2002 The Long Good-Bye, New York Magazine, Aric Chen, New York2002 New Yorker of the Week interview with Tanya Valle on NY1 television 1997 Festival Des Arts Dialogue Est/Ouest, catalogue, Anne Guiet, Vayolles, FranceNew American Paintings, The Open Studio Press, Vol. 2, No. 41996 Art Calendar, Barb Dougherty, Upper Fairmount, MD1995 Karin Batten, catalogue essay by David Bourdon, June Kelly Gallery, New York1994 das neue, Anke Schröder, Hamburg, Germany1990 Karin Batten, essay by Margaret Sheffield, June Kelly Gallery, New York1988 Penn Plaza Art, The Westsider, N. F. Karlins, New YorkThe Arts Community, Daily News, Joan Shepard, New York1984 Scandal in the Art Department, The Kettle, Linda Kosenski, Caldwell, New JerseyFeast for Art Lovers Eyes, Lansing State Journal, Lansing, Michigan1983 Karin Batten, New Beginnings, Geoff Evans, London1982 Holocaust Visionen, Art Das Kunstmagazin, Gabrielle Von Arnim, Hamburg, GermanyAl zeigt abgesetzte Ausstellung, Der Tagesspiegel, Hamburg, GermanyVersuchskaninchen, Die Tageszeitung, Berlin1981 Karin Batten, The Guardian, Carol Leven, New YorkOpen Season, The Village Voice, Lucy Lippard, New YorkContamination, catalogue essay by Alice Neel, Gallery 1199, New YorkArt Comes to the Environment, The Aquarian, Diane Umansky, New YorkGrants & Awards2010 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain, residency2008 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Ill, residency2006 Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony, Woodstock, NY, residency2005 Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA, residency2002 The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education, Townshend, VT, residency2001 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York, NYArtists Fellowship Inc., emergency fund grant, NYResidency, Studioscape in the World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY1998 Artists Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York1997 Residency, Cummington School for the Arts, MA1996 1st Prize in the Promenade Art Show, BACA/The Brooklyn Arts Council, NY1991 Emma Lake Artists Workshop, Saskatchewan, Canada1988 Residency, Cummington School for the Arts, MA1987 New York State Council on the ArtsArtmakers, Inc., Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York Artmakers, Inc., North Star Fund, New YorkFellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY1986 Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA1985 Artmakers, Inc., North Star Fund, New YorkTeaching1993-present Norwich University, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT1974-1985 Parsons School of Design, New York1981-1982 School of New Resources, College of New Rochelle, New York1976-1979 New York City Community College, New YorkLectures & Films2011 Featured speaker at "Cathartic Art: Remembering September 11th, West Baton Rouge Museum, LA2008 Clear Blue Tuesday, Director Elizabeth Lucas, Painting as prop in movie2002 Tribeca Film Festival, Panel Confusion in a Time of Uncertainty: Life After September 11th, Pace University, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, with Jon Stewart, Spalding Gray, Susan Sarandon and Wendy Wasserstein1987 University of Vermont, Burlington, VT1984 Caldwell College, NJ1983 Fashion Institute of Technology, NY1981 Parsons School of Design, NY
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June Kelly GalleryNY Artists CirlceSaatchi Gallery UKArtist's SpaceNational September 11th Memorial and MuseumThank you for contacting Karin Batten, your inquiresand comments are always welcome. Email: karin.batten_gmail.com
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