Art by Karen Wiley
Painting * Collage * Mixed-Media
kwiley@sunflower.comGALLERY REPRESENTATION
The Edmund Craig Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Painting * Collage * Mixed-Media
kwiley@sunflower.com
- EDUCATION
- B.A. degree in Art, University of California at Fresno
- Advanced Intaglio Techniques, Stanislaus State College, Turlock, CA
- Watercolor Basics, Instructor: Louis Copt, Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- Introduction to Collage, Instructor: Laura Jost, Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- Watermedia Collage, Instructor: Carrie Brown, Kanuga Watercolor Workshops, Hendersonville, NC
- Layering Light, Instructor: Bette Ridgeway, Kanuga Watercolor Workshops, Hendersonville, NC
- Abstraction with Watermedia & Collage, Instructor: Edwin Wordell, Kanuga Watercolor Workshops, Hendersonville, NC
- Monoprints on Paper, Instructor: Lori Hinrichsen, Lawrence, KS
- TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- High School Art, Newark Public School System, Newark, NJ
- High School Art and Crafts, Oakdale, CA
- SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- SOLO
- 2003
- Gladys Six Green Room, Lawrence Community Theatre, Lawrence, KS
- 2003
- Babcock Place, Lawrence, KS
- JURIED
- 2007
- Images Art Gallery 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Kansas City, MO, Juror: Donna Aldridge.
- 38th Annual Smokyhill Art Exhibition, Hays Arts Council, Hays, KS, Juror: Louise Cadillac
- 2006
- Kansas City Artists Coalition: 2006 Members Exhibition, Jurors: Philomene Bennett and Lou Marak, KCAC’s Mallin & Charno Galleries, Kansas City, MO.
- Juried Art Exhibition of Kansas/Missouri Women Artists, Sponsored by KS/MO Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts & Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, Jurors: Philomene Bennett, Ellen Goheen, and Mary Beth Moley, Carter Art Center Gallery at MCC-PENN Valley.
- Images Art Gallery 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Philomene Bennett, Images Art Gallery, Kansas, MO.
- 2005
- Lawrence-Own-Your-Own (LOYO) Art Exhibition & Sale, Juror: Nancy Hernandez
- 2004
- "Lawrence-Own-Your-Own (LOYO) Art Exhibition & Sale," Juror: Edward Barr, Director, Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University, Topeka, KS
- "Fourth Annual National Juried Art Exhibit," Erman B. White Gallery at Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS Juror: Warren Rosser, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
- 2003
- "34th Smoky Hill Art Exhibition," Hays Arts Council, Hays, KS Juror: Darlene Brown, Executive Director of the Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
- "Lawrence-Own-Your-Own (LOYO) Art Exhibition & Sale," Juror: Carolyn McMaster, Editor, Writer & Photographer, San Francisco, CA
- 2002
- "Lawrence-Own-Your-Own (LOYO) Art Exhibition & Sale," Juror: Richard Fanolio, Master Artist & Hallmark Director of Graphics, Shawnee, KS
- 2001
- "Lawrence-Own-Your-Own (LOYO) Art Exhibition & Sale," Jurors: Maureen Korp, author of Sacred Art of the Earth, Ottawa, Canada; Margo Kren, Professor of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS; Mary Kennedy McCabe, MAAA, Director of Exhibits USA, KC, MO
- "Sacred Sexuality," Carmesi Gallery, Lawrence, KS
- GROUP
- 2006
- “Paintings, Mixed-Media, Collages, Monoprints” by Laurie Culling and Karen Wiley, Lawrence Public Library Gallery, May 1-31.
- 2005
- Lawrence Art Guild "All Members Show," Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- 25th Annual Art Auction, Lawrence Arts Center, KS, April
- Lawrence Art Guild All Members Show, Lawrence Arts Center, Feb.
- 2004
- Body Boutique (Women"s Fitness and Health Spa), Lawrence, KS
- Lawrence Art Guild "All Members Show," Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- ArtWalk, Lawrence, KS
- "Lawrence Art Guild Members Show," Lawrence Public Library, KS
- 2003
- Cornerbank, Lawrence, KS
- Lawrence Art Guild "All Members Show," Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- ArtWalk, Lawrence, KS
- "Lawrence Art Guild Members Show," Lawrence Public Library, KS
- 2002
- "2nd Annual Jazzhaus Valentine Art Show," Lawrence, KS
- Lawrence Art Guild "All Members Show," Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- ArtWalk, Lawrence, KS
- "Lawrence Art Guild Members Show," Lawrence Public Library, KS
- 2001
- ArtWalk, Lawrence, KS
- "Lawrence Art Guild Members Show," Lawrence Public Library, KS
- Lawrence Art Guild "All Members Show," Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- 2000
- Lawrence Public Library, Lawrence, KS
- "Lawrence Art Guild Members Show," Lawrence Public Library, KS
- Lawrence Art Guild "All Members Show," Lawrence Arts Center, KS
- Awards
- 2007
- 1st Place Award, Images Art Gallery, 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Kansas City, MO.
- CORPORATE/PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Adams Chiropractic & Wellness Center, Lawrence, KS
- USD 490 Collection, Washington Elementary School, Purchased by The Fine Art of Living Well Art Patrons, El Dorado, KS
- Central National Bank, Lawrence, KS
- COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS
- Member Lawrence Art Guild since 1998,
- Lawrence Arts Center 2005
- Kansas City Artists Coalition,