70 - Maria, Kara - One Small Step - 2008
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 x 1
Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Gallery
Kara Maria's work is a visual dialogue between abstraction and representation within paintings, drawings, and prints. She borrows from the broad vocabulary of contemporary painting, blending geometric shapes, vivid hues, brushstrokes, and stains with a host of social and environmental concerns seen through flashes of representational elements. This painting "One Small Step" is from a series of small works Maria made in 2008.
Kara Maria is a visual artist specializing in painting and mixed media. Her recent creations delve into the earth’s biodiversity crisis, exploring the evolving role of animals within our increasingly unstable environment. Kara Maria received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation); the San Jose Museum of Art; and the Cantor Center at Stanford University; among others. A native of Binghamton, New York, Kara Maria now lives and works in San Francisco, California.
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