Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 proudly presents: Aurora, LAAA’s Annual Holiday Art Sale and Celebration.
Aurora will open this year on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at Gallery 825.
Give the gift of art!
Aurora will feature over 100 reasonably priced original artworks by LA’s most exciting emerging artists. Arrive early on November 20 to get your first look! All work can be taken home at point of purchase. Continue reading
It all started today when I just didn’t want to feel ‘real’. The need to see me and where and what I’m doing from a new perspective…
If you are interested in having one done the price is $75 for a low-res-image no larger than 3″ x 5″.** Contact me for the payment info and to send your image. (one face per image, not a group, if you want a group the price is more….) I can also do a hi-res version, contact me for pricing based on what you are looking for.
Here are some of my friends images.
**Pricing may increase so get yours today!
With Energy!
Karrie Ross
Los Angeles Fine Artist
—Karrie Ross
It is with this purpose that I create ART.
Topanga Canyon Gallery announces the opening of its new show, “EnergiZed”, an exploration of personal energy generation and the fun we can have with it. Featuring new works by Karrie Ross, Los Angeles Artist.
The inspiration for the show, which opens on Wednesday October 13th, came to Karrie in the middle of preparing the artwork for the show… how “EnergiZed” she was feeling and seeing this energy translate into her art presentation. Part of the show will be an installation piece of movable discs, spinning energy out into the gallery and inviting you to participate in the fun.
“EnergiZed!” What’s YOUR energy telling the world?
runs from Wednesday October 13th through Sunday October 24th – two weeks only.
Gallery Hours are Wednesday – Saturday 10am to 6pm, and Sunday 11am to 5pm.
See the show and meet Karrie at the Artist Reception on Saturday October 23rd from 5 – 7:30pm.
This is a Panoramic view of the whole show! gotta love that setting on your camera. Mine is new, a SONY Cyber Shot, 14 mp.
This is the “Planting Seeds” 3D installation piece. There are 14 discs, all spin and three, the little ones, spin by motors. This was a spur-of-the-moment piece and was so much fun to create. I love the details and process of figuring out the construction. I’m working on getting more discs to spin, something to do with a pulley system… still researching but this is soooo great! Each disc is hand painted and drawn with pencil. Continue reading
I figure we all have a dream, something we want to put our energy toward making it happen. This sub-category of “Energy Blooms” creates a visual of one of the ways energy enters our lives. “Do you see it?” the image of the bloom… “Do you feel it?” the vibration of energy from the visual movement of imagery on the canvas…
I just ‘happened’ upon this look… I do a test of something new and there it is… I bought a new brush and was trying it out on some scrap paper, you know, getting used to how much paint it carries and how the brush responds to touching paper or canvas, the chemistry of the elements… so, when I filled it up with paint, got a piece of paper and splatted it … the image showed up as the bloom of a flower… the swirling lines and drops of paint, another test I put my brushes through, help to increase the vibration the painting shares in eye movement and balance.
Take a look, tell me what you see and feel… I’m very happy with this look and glad I bought the lone brush on sale waiting for someone… ME … to show it some love!
Spiral Series: Energy Blooms: Expanding: 18 x 24; mixed media box canvas drawn edges; Karrie Ross, ©2010 all rights reserved.
and here is another one…
Spiral Series: Energy Blooms: We Dance: 24 x 24; mixed media box canvas drawn edges; Karrie Ross, ©2010 all rights reserved.
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In energy!
Karrie Ross
Spiral Series: Disperse: Karrie Ross at TAG 2010 California Juried Open Show
And I was ‘seen’ by Karen Moss, OCMA, who juried the TAG California Open, August- September. My piece, Spiral Series: Disperse, was among 50 pieces chosen to be displayed in the TAG space at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica.
Spiral Series: Disperse is 24 x 18; mixed media (oil, acrylic, and pencil) on box canvas with drawn edges. The symbol is my abstract representative of a hand, an energy transmitter, and comes to life within the transitions of the spiral drawings as they overlap and create tangent connections. Allowing the artwork to keep giving energy to those who view it… and take them on a visual journey… ” the imagination is our preview of life’s coming attractions”.
Being in juried group shows are an important part of the ‘being seen’ process of a fine artist. Not only for building the exhibition listing, but getting the art in front of a variety of curators, jurors and galleries.
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With energy!
Karrie Ross
A portrait of the people who make us smile. Taking from my son, Orbison, Cash, Holly, Belushi… using symbols found everyday yet attributed to certain feelings, a hat, sunglasses, suit and tie conjure up our relatedness to those who have inspired us over the years.
If you find yourself stuck on what to paint next… ask yourself a few questions and see what comes up. Look around your home, think ‘something you haven’t done before’ like a portrait or landscape or abstract! What happens will get your creative juices flowing once again.
Spiral Series: They Make Us Smile!; 48 x 48; mixed media; 2010 SOLD
Who has inspired you? Tell us about them.
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Karrie Ross, Los Angeles Artist
California
I had a great time. I was located at one of the more spacious beautiful sites on the tour… a 25 acre property and one of the oldest in the Topanga area. There were five artist on the property all together… and we had a steady stream of people coming to enjoy the day and our art.
Karrie Ross 2010 Topanga Gallery Studio Tour
I really had a good time this weekend. I like being outdoors and having the opportunity to share my concepts, my art work and process. I was happy to know that so many people are able to relate to my Spiral Series and the concepts I have about energy.
Anoush and Hedi and art work purchased
I met a lovely couple who purchased one of my 8×8 pieces from the silent auction. Thank YOU Anoush and Hedi! May it’s energy fill your life with inspiration.
If you are looking for a June outing, I highly recommend the Studio Tour. Not only do you get to see great art and meet the artist… but, you get a self-guided tour of the Topanga Canyon area that is seldom seen.
Tell me about an experience you’ve had with art shows or tours…
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Karrie Ross, Los Angeles Artist
California
Change happens.
I met a famous (from the 1980s) painter who showed me a painting he’d been struggling with for months, it was only 16 x 20 and he couldn’t find the “time” to finish it, he was getting paid $30,000 to paint it. This event started me thinking, asking… “Could I paint in a style that was not my current style even if paid to do it?”
For the past 10 years I’ve painted a bi-yearly line of images for a company who shows and sells my work to the gift and decorative industry at HiPoint, I can paint images I created from years ago… so for me, I know it is possible, to channel of energy to a previous style. Certainly some aspect of it will have changed but the art will not suffer because of this… it will turn out with the same quality as when first painted. This has become an enjoyable exercise for me and an experience I wouldn’t have changed for the world. The painting of images over and over for sale… selling art brings more art creation and more sales. Promoting the energy of change, which I love to encourage.
This energy has transferred into my newest series and pushes it along through the 34 paintings I have so far… and they in turn keep pushing me to the next. Would not even think of living without it.