Karen Amanda
Artist; Draw the Line Arts / Author; Laid Bare: Rendered to Truth
karenriggscady@gmail.com
SELECTED RESUME / AWARD HIGHLIGHTS
Curator; MIVAL Gallery, Mercer Island, Wa.
Owner / Curator / Artist; Draw the Line Arts Gallery, Vashon Island, Wa.
Artist / Instructor; Draw the Line Art Studio, Seattle, Wa. / Vashon Island, Wa.
Chase Bank, Solo Art Exhibit, Vashon, Wa.
Blue Herron Gallery, Art Studio Tour Group Show, Vashon Island, Wa.
Art Merchant International, Best of Show, Monroe, Wa.
Artwork Northwest, Featured Artist Show, Gig Harbor, Wa.
Country Wide Mortgage, Open House, Mercer Island, Wa.
City Commerce of Mercer Island, Solo Artist Exhibit, Mercer Island, Wa.
Northwest Collage Society, Art Exhibition, Seattle, Wa.
Westin Hotel, Solo Installation, Seattle, Wa.
Magnolia Arts Festival, 1st Place and Art Poster, Seattle, Wa.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Dynamic expression is found within the strokes of painting and placements of collaging. The combining of various media techniques including oils, acrylics and textural substances give fluidity, form, and dimension to paintings and monoprints. I intermingle the elements onto canvas or Masonite in a non-cognitive melding. This gives a cohesive organic, amorphic yet structural fusion.
ART BIO
Graduate of the Burnley School of Professional Art.
Taught art classes at Draw the Line Art Studio
My art is displayed and sold in Galleries, Art Shows and Tours.
Owner Draw the Line Art Studio/Gallery
Commissioned Collections both Corporate and Private comprise my paintings.
Memberships include; Mercer Island Visual Arts League, Vashon Allied Arts, Seattle Art Museum, NW Collage Society.
“Art is in each movement, each vision, each interpretation experienced in the breath of the moment and remembered.”