Kara Maria


Plume, 2000
acrylic on canvas
36" x 48"
Un Jeu, 1999
acrylic on canvas
51" x 39"
Airborne Event, 2000
acrylic on canvas
36" x 48"
La Lumiere, 1999
acrylic on canvas
51" x 39"

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My paintings make reference to the products and pollution of our synthetic culture: art, music, television, cyberspace, news, video-game-like images of war, violence, and disaster, advertisements, comic-books, fashion, graffiti, old and new, high and low, sublime and vile. Cheerfully apocalyptic, the work is intended to simultaneously attract and repel, with references to both beauty and toxicity, as in the supersaturated colors of a smoggy sunset.


Kara Maria
57 Byxbee Street
San Francisco, CA 94132
415-239-1675
email:KaraMaria6@aol.com

Education
1998 MFA, Art Practice
University Of California, Berkeley
1993 BA with honors, Art Practice
University Of California, Berkeley
Selected One, Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2000 a.o.v., Plastic Dreams, San Francisco, CA

1999 Cite Internationale des Arts, Doggie Doo Hop Scotch, Paris, France
1998 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Introductions, San Francisco, CA
1997 Gallery Luscombe, Recent Works, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2000 Biola University, 10 Degrees of Abstraction, La Mirada, CA

Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Abstraction: From Raucous to Refined, Walnut Creek, CA

DiRT gallery, The Hokey Pokey Show, Hollywood, CA

Gensler, Connected, Santa Monica, CA

Raid Projects, Spurgeon Experience II,Santa Ana, CA

1999 Jones Center for Contemporary Art, New American Talent 14,
toured state of Texas from 1998-2000, (catalog published) Austin, TX

Selected Bibliography
2000 Artweek,"Abstraction: From Raucous to Refined, at the Bedford Gallery", by Juan Rodriguez, October, Volume 31, Issue 10, San Jose, CA

San Francisco Chronicle,"The Last Gasps of Abstraction", by Kenneth Baker, September 2, San Francisco, CA

Artweek,"Kara Maria at a.o.v.", by Juan Rodriguez, September, Volume 31, Issue 9, San Jose, CA

Diablo Arts,Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts Magazine, "Driven to Abstraction", by Carol Egan, July - September, Walnut Creek, CA

Selected Honors/Awards
2000 de Young Artist Studio, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
San Francisco, CA

Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA

1997 Eisner Prize in Art, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA