KAREN ROSE
BIOGRAPHY
Karen Rose is a half Mexican artist painting in New York City, San Francisco, and Raleigh. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York.
Her practice includes a printmaking residency at La Maldita Estampa in Barcelona, supported by a North Carolina arts grant. She was also awarded a Kivunim Fellowship to Morocco, where she studied inter-religious and cross-cultural coexistence with 40 educators, 3 rabbis, and a Bedouin Palestinian peace activist.
Last year she had solo shows of her Border Paintings at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station, CA, Diamante Arts & Cultural Center in Raleigh, NC as well as the Durham Convention Center.
She has recently shown work with the Inter- Latin American Artist Collective of Durham, as well as Studio Gallery and the SFArtsEd Gallery in San Francisco. Rose has a studio practice in both Richmond, CA and Raleigh, NC, and currently teaches at Urban School of San Francisco.
ARTIST STATEMENT & FIELD AND FRAME EXHIBIT GALLERY
My work has been focused on Mexican border paintings for the past 5 years and more recently on the landscapes of immigration detention centers, past, imagined, and present, from Angel Island to Alcatraz to Alligator Alcatraz.
I have been concurrently painting landscapes honoring Latino farmworkers such as my grandparents who lived and worked in the San Joaquin Valley in California. I was inspired by the beautiful farmscapes of Wilson and created this series especially for this show at The Edge.
All of my work celebrates the joy of painting landscape through Mexican color palettes while undertaking deeper themes of the immigration crisis and the Latino experience in this country.