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 "Yin-Yang" | Photograph from the "Enchanted Forest" Series | © 2007 | Karen J. Andrews
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BIOGRAPHY | KAREN JUDITH ANDREWS
I was born in 1957 in Erie, Pennaylvania and grew up outside of New Haven, Connecticut. I spent much of my childhood making architectural drawings and models. I recall being very visually aware, although I never received any formal training until my senior year of high school. I attended Oberlin College from 1975-1979, and majored in Art History and French and focused on printmaking.
I began making photographs in Boston soon after college and took classes at Mass Art, The Art Institute of Boston, and Maine Photographic Workshops. I worked at the East Boston Community News as a photo-journalist, and produced a photo documentary of an Italian/Portuguese working class neighborhood. I also freelanced in the Multi-Image field.
I moved back to New Haven in 1984, and worked with my father developing an artist's loft space — Art Haven West — with a high concentration of photographers. I continued photographing distressed neighborhoods of New Haven and began studying drawing and painting. Around 1992, I developed environmental allergies (multiple chemical sensitivity) and had to abandon darkroom work and eventually, New Haven pollution. I began the Enchanted Forest Series while transitioning out of New Haven.
In 1997 I moved to the Berkshires and continued photographing and painting, switching from urban blight to bucolic landscape as subject matter. I joined the S.A.S. cooperative photography gallery, and continued exhibiting in solo and group shows throughout the region, in both photography and watercolor. I studied watercolor and drawing at IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires, Woodstock School of Art, and workshops with Charles Reid.
During this time I won several awards for fine art photography: Photographer's Forum Magazine, Fredericksburg Center for the Arts, Art Calendar, and Quality Printing Calendar Competitions.
I organized a touring exhibition of healing artwork which travelled to over a dozen hospitals and healing centers of the northeast and was offered a permanent installation in Hartford Hospital's Chapel area for the Enchanted Forest Series.
In the summer of 2006 I opened the Inner Vision Studio, a seasonal home-based gallery located in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. I am currently interested in dance photography, old machinery and equipment, and portraiture. |
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
As a photographer and watercolor painter, I get to live in parallel worlds. I sometimes use my photographs as references for my watercolor paintings and drawings, and conversely, the practice of painting has enhanced my overall ability to see.
Watercolor painting, like photography, can be a spontaneous and time-sensitive medium, but it invites a deeper, longer gaze. Building with pigment to define edges, shapes, values, colors and depth is like recreating a subject from the inside out. Photography can eternalize a moment for future contemplation.
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GALLERIES & INSTALLATIONS
DeCordova Museum Corporate Lending Program, Lincoln, MA
Hartford Hospital area, Hartford, CT
American Institute in Taiwan, Art in Embassies Program, 3 Year Show: "New England in Contemporary American Art"
Mercury Corporation, Boston, MA
Pearl Street Gallery, Hartford, CT
Young and Constantin Gallery, Wilmington, VT
S.A.S. Gallery, Housatonic, MA
Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA
Canyon Ranch, Lenox, MA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Macy Gallery, Valhalla, NY
Exposed Gallery of Fine Art Photography, Albany, NY |
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EXHIBITIONSCURRENT & UPCOMING EXHBITIONS
2007: "Machinery and Equipment: A Feminine View of the Mechanical World"
TRAVELING EXHBITIONS & PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
2000-2003: "The Enchanted Forest Series, Souvenirs of a Healing Journey"
2001-2002: "The H2O Project" |
INNER VISION OFFERINGS
We have three categories of images available for purchase:
The website is divided into ten galleries, organized by subject and medium.
The New Work Gallery changes periodically, as the artist's interests and work evolves.
The Inner Vision Gallery Page contains many of the images currently on display at the Inner Vision Studio located in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which is open weekends during the Summer and early Fall.
All fine art photographs range from 4" x 6" to 16" x 20", priced between $15 and $500. Some photographs are printed in limited editions, and some are artist's proofs.
Giclée prints, reproductions of the artist's original works, are less costly, ranging in size from 4" x 6" up to 16" x 20", and priced between $15 and $165.
Original artwork varies in price, with watercolors ranging between $150 and $800. Some are already framed, but buyers can also purchase just the artwork.
At this time, Inner Vision is not offering any special framing.
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GICLÉE PRINTS
Giclée is a French word that comes from the verb "gicler", which essentially means "to spray". It refers to fine art digital prints which "display a full color spectrum, and can capture every nuance of an original painting-- be it watercolor, oil or acrylic."1
My giclées are printed on an Epson Pro 4000 printer, which uses Ultrachrome archival inks on fine Epson or Crane papers.
As a photographer and a watercolorist, I have chosen to take advantage of the printing technology so that I might offer excellent reproductions of my original watercolors and drawings, as well as fine art photographic prints.
Side by side, I feel that these reproductions hold their own in terms of the color, the textures, and the overall flavor of the originals, and certainly exceed them in affordability!
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INNER VISION STUDIO
The Inner Vision Studio opened its doors in July of 2006 as a place for me to show my original photography and watercolor. I was inspired by the numerous home-based galleries we visited on Deer Island, Maine, where art-lovers can "bop" from one small studio to another, meeting the artist, seeing the place they live and work, and purchasing art without a huge middle-man markup.
My first show was "Florals and Still Lifes", a series of watercolors and mixed media work, and the second show was called "Dance and Movement" and featured watercolor, photography, and drawings.
The Inner Vision Studio is a converted horse stable that my husband and I fixed up last spring. It's painted periwinkle and coral, and is open summer and fall weekends, from 1-5 pm Saturday and Sunday. There will be two openings this coming season, so if you want to be on my mailing list, please email me your contact information.
We have great food, lots of happy art-lovers, and beautiful surroundings. Most of the currently exhibited work will be displayed on this site, so if you see something you like, and just want time to decide, you can use the site to help jar your memory. Or you may see something you like on the site, but want to know what it really looks like in person!
For more information, see the Inner Vision Studio Gallery Page
INNER VISION STUDIO |
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ABOUT MY COMMERCIAL WORK
I am available for commissions in photography, watercolor painting and drawing. I use digital photography, and can paint from life or from photographs. The following is a list of commercial work I have done or would like to do:
Prices are reasonable, and I always value the artistic challenges as much as the technical. I am open to collaborations with dancers, musicians and filmmakers.
Contact information:
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WHY BUY ARTFirst question: Do I like it? Can I imagine living with it every day? Will it grow on me? How does it make me feel? Does it speak to me? It seems easier for most people to splurge on an expensive dinner that will be gone the next day, or an eye-catching piece of clothing that will only be worn once than to purchase a piece of art that could give them countless hours of pleasure every day for the rest of their life. Some art has investment value, but the real investment should be in yourself and the things that enrich your life. An object or picture can remind you of a part of yourself that you may have forgotten-- your playful inner child, or the person who feels things deeply. Art is part of what makes life meaningful. Beauty makes all the drudgery and hard work worthwhile. Art can help you think more creatively in all aspects of your life. Art is here to amuse you, to open your heart, to play with your senses, and to enrich your spirit. Indulge yourself.
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