Welcome to Karen Millar Kendall Art! I invite you to take a stroll through my collections, read my blog, and peruse the items in the shop.
I thought I loved black and white, and then I found color. Color is the ultimate expression of creative love and of feeling and emotion. Yes, even greys and neutrals tell a story in the way they can express a point of view, or a critical point in one’s life.
I love layering and scraping, finding the hidden treasure that lies just below the surface - from under the obvious comes the truth. I don’t claim to understand what is happening when I paint, it is intuitive, surprising, and always evolving. Pattern, texture, and color are the tools of my creative experience. I interpret what I see and feel on the canvas with a non literal expression of that moment in time. I find joy in the process.
My intention is to allow the viewer to bring themselves into the work and find what it is they need, or desire, in the elements therein.
From representational to abstract, there is always the underlying connectedness to something natural; the true essence of nature appears. The subject is the least important part of the composition, more important is how that subject is expressed through color and process. It may be unrecognizable as an object or scene, but is intricately represented in essence. Through this process, pieces may seem outwardly, uniquely different in style, but are inwardly speaking the same language.
Take a stroll through my website, and enjoy nature's beauty as you connect to it in your own personal way.
IN THE NEWS
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"Forget Not That the Earth Delights"
PCPAA Exhibit at the Park City Library
The Park City Artists Association is proud to be showing this incredible exhibit of "visual poetry", and I am very proud to be part of it. The idea was to showcase nature is all its incredible beauty and to have the artists share their connection to nature through their work and their words. Each artist included prose, be it poetry, thoughts, quotes, etc., that depicts what that piece means to them.
The exhibit runs through Feb.. 2022.
BrandPC Holiday Market
The Park City Summit County Arts Council has outdone themselves with their pop-up art market this year. BrandPC features Park City makers and artists. This market is primarily product based; clothing, chocolate, jewelry, woodworking, etc., however, there are also many artists featured this year as well (myself included!).
The arts council was able to get a storefront in the Park City Outlet Mall this year, K110. Stop down if you are in the area and check out all the great items for sale this year! Now through Dec. 24.
PROSPECT IN-SITU/EX-SITU EXHIBIT
The Prospect Executive Suites is presenting a pop-up gallery exhibit called In-Situ/Ex-Situ which is highlight 11 women artists from the Park City area. I am proud to be chosen as one of the exhibitors.
This show focuses on the creative process during the pandemic - the year 2020. How did this year effect our creative endeavors, and what were we able to produce from it?
My Submission:
“ABSTRACTED”
Abstracted: adjective
“Lost in thought, deeply engrossed or preoccupied. Removed; remote; separate. A general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances.”
In 2020, I found myself in a creative slump due to the pandemic, the election, politics, and the general happenings and negativity in the world. It was heavy. There was so much "noise" swirling around my head that I wasn’t able to allow the creative juices to come through. I was stagnant, stuck, constricted. Eventually, there was talk of a vaccine, a new president, and hope. I picked up a brush, and put paint to canvas, allowing myself to move with little direction, with creative freedom - to just “feel” the paint, the composition, and play. To be, and feel, abstracted.
30x40 Oil on Canvas.
January 2021
BONANZA ART PARK
Park City is forever changing and 2021 has started some big changes in the Prospector area where buildings have been razed to make room for the future Arts and Culture District. The Park City Summit County Arts Council (pcscarts.org) in conjunction with the city, has been activating the dirt lot with lots of activities, art, food and fun on Tuesday evenings. Called the Bonanza Art Park, you will find creative endeavors, including this amazing (if I do say so myself) cube created by me, and fellow artist (metal art) Kelly Franklin. In addition, music, food, games, etc. Through the month of October, 2021.
For more information about the artists check it out here: https://www.pcscarts.org/blog/bonanza-art-park-artists?fbclid=IwAR2Mx6KzEGzl6jrw2BxUbFGqCvBFyc1RTzwLPh5iRqVvIe06klMYzw530zY
IN THE NEWSPAPER!
So honored to be interviewed by the Park Record - the local newspaper for Park City, UT. This article focuses on how the pandemic had effected creativity, my creative process, and inspiration. Check it out by clicking this link:
This fabulous photo by Tanzi Probst of the Park Record.
CREATEPC IS BACK!
Because it is always an evolving project, dependent on the generosity of property owners in Park CIty to lend us vacant space, CreatePC Pop Up Gallery is ever re-creating its space. BrandPC will be shifting back to CreatePC with a focus more on fine art rather than product based creatives. We will now be open on 544 Main St. in old town Park City. Be sure to check it out, I will have some new works exhibited there!
WHAT'S HAPPENING
New gallery at 825 Main, Park City
Done virtually in the age of Covid-19