Something about the Holidays… that just makes you want to celebrate. I celebrated by creating some little 6×6 images… they are precious. Take a look and let me know if you are interested in any of them. Happy Holidays!
I’ve just started on the Precious Gold Series so if there is an image you’d Continue reading
“Big and Small California Dreaming”, 30×22; oil, watercolor, acrylic, ink, college, on arches; has been selected for the exhibition “California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California” Traveling International Art Exhibition 2014-2015.
Chosen from nearly one thousand entries, jurors selected approximately 50 artworks to travel with California Dreaming. Juried by Peter Frank, Drew Oberjuerge, Daniel Foster, and Alfio Borghese
My catalog summary of the work: I am a native Californian, born in downtown Los Angeles in 1949. My teen years were the 1960 and I was a “beach bunny”, surfer-chick. I loved Disneyland and can almost say I grew up there—I went so often in the Continue reading
Umbrella and Eggs!; 22×15; oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink on arches
This is one of my most fav paintings. “Umbrella and Eggs!” was a fun and explorative piece when I made it. I was just beginning to go in this direction again and adding the eggs and their whimsey was new to my thinking. I very much like the way this turned out and was excited Continue reading
Orange Fish; 30×22; oil, watercolor, acrylic, ink on arches
Just in from the Art Projects Paia in Hawaii… The Orange Fish (30″x22″; oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink on arches) has been sold. And, I’m in process of painting two more for shipping soon.
Thank you to APP and to the new owner of this piece of art.
An install of mine from several years ago… it’s parts live in and among my home’s many spaces… all unassembled waiting… what does installation art do after the big hoorah anyways…
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Impact Of Life: New artwork by Karrie Ross
LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts
August 3rd thru August 31, 2014
Karrie Ross / Michael Wood / Dani Vinokurov
OPENING Reception: Sunday, August 3rd from 3 to 5pm
Conversation with the Artists: 4pm
Los Angeles — Karrie Ross will exhibit a selection of paintings, created over a two-year period, at LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts, from August 3rd thru 31st, 2014. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12noon to 5pm. Opening Reception and Meet the Artist at 4p.m. Karrie’s work spans a variety of images offering surreal faces, and the whimsy of a figure with an egg, to Continue reading
I am so honored and humbled to be part of this show with so many talented women… the art was stunning… and Peggy Nichols a wonder of a woman who organized it. There was plenty of exposure and the event was well attended and several artworks sold. Overall a great show to the end. The even was planned inconjunction with the Annual Santa Fe Arts Colony art weekend.
Here is a link to the write up by John Seed on the Huffington Post. — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/oneira-i-dream-the-self-a_b_5505663.html
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Symbol; 22×30; watercolor on lana
Show up from July 5 – August 17, 2014
Curated by Juri Koll
With Catalog Essays by Peter Frank, Shana Nys Dambrot & John Seed
The artists in this show use watercolor, inks, and other liquid media for a variety of reasons – some love the risk of not being able to alter the result once it hits the paper. Others have a more formal reason for the process. Some use the medium as a contemplative, almost reverential experience, or for “quiet meditation or being present in the moment”, as Shana Nys Dambrot says. All these motivations inspire these works, and engage the audience with the here and now, regardless of when the work was completed.
“I paint watercolors because they are alive, their blending creating another reality that was not planned or expected. The chemistry of the medium is all about water… in the air, time of day and year, how liquid the paint and if the paper is prewet or dry. For me, painting with watercolor is “high-risk” you never know how a piece will turn out. Water, the flow of life and change.”
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Everything i need is right here right now… Within the fire and lows of creative explorations balancing into the highs of kindnesses, shows, and sales… Keeping this “what is” in perspective fills my days… Noticing that without the one there is no other… Motto for each day is to see and accept the highs that feed the fires and lows through the actions of my arts… MORE in the series
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“Party” by Karrie Ross; 15″x22″; watercolor oil, acrylic on 300 arches paper
This is my second time at the Brand Works on Paper. I’m very happy to be included with such a fine list of artists.
From the Brand website: “For more than 40 years the Annual Juried Exhibition organized and sponsored by the Brand Associates has been one of the preeminent stages upon which artists from around the country have exhibited their work— more than 2,000 of them to date. This monumental record is enhanced by the historically significant Southern California-based artists, educators and critics who have served as jurors during those 40 years.
Jack Rutberg is the owner and director Continue reading
I have not been a fan of theme shows, it seems I just don’t do them very well. It might be because I’m mostly abstract and themes are figurative. So, when a friend mentioned the MOAH show about Poppies I initially just flaked on it… then I started thinking… “I can paint a poppy. The flower that I love. The most beautiful orange EVER… that’s E . V . E . R….” So I painted three images of varying degrees of abstraction. From 1. as real as I paint 2. combined into a current series 3. totally out there abstract. AND #1 and #2 were accepted. Thank you MOAH!
Posted from the museum: “During a time when drought conditions have limited the explosion of gold that normally Continue reading
Lobby install
“Energy Transfer” 48×48 and two combo works 15×15
Sundance Cinema West Hollywood at Sunset Blvd and Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, CA
Sprial Series by Karrie Ross. Gallery installation up for three months March thru May 2104
Solo Show at Sundance Cinema in West Hollywood, Ca
As the art world changes, so do the locations where art can be displayed. Many small business and large corporations are starting to make space available for local artists. This installation is just such a location, a cinema located at the famous corner of Sunset Blvd. and Laurel Canyon near where Pandora’s Box used to be in the 1960s.
I received an out-of-the-blue call from their representative when they just happened on my art website while researching a variety of artists in the Los Angeles area. Thank you Sundance Cinemas for your interest in my work.
The show is located in their upstairs lounge/gallery space as well Continue reading