Karen Barbour

Woman with No Private Parts 2014, gouache on paper

Ex Wife on Vacation 2014, gouache on paper

Stella, 2015 sand, flashe and acrylic on paper, 19 ½ x 25 ½”

untitled (flowers 2) 2015, collage, flashe and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22

Give Me The Eye 2015, flashe and acrylic on paper, 29 ¾ x 22”

Pet Wildcat 2015 ink on paper, 12 ¾ x 9 ¾”

untitled (bird) 2015, flashe and acrylic and collage on paper, 22 x 30”

Good and Evil, 2015 collage, flashe and acrylic on paper, 19 ½ x 15

You Got the Devil in You, 2015 flashe and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22”

untitled (cat face) 2015, collage, flashe and acrylic on paper, 17 ¼ x 22”

untitled (eyes) 2015, flashe and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30”

untitled (dog) 2015, flashe and acrylic on paper, 22 ¼ x 30 ¼”

The New Look 2015, flashe, acrylic and ink on paper, 24 x 22”

Woman and Baby 2014, gouache on paper

Karen Barbour is an illustrator working in northern California. She paints figuratively and abstractly and is inspired by conversations overheard and then illustrated, mental illness, gossip, imaginings, trying to be perfect, anxiety, boredom, doubts, and everlasting dissatisfaction. Her work is part imagination, part memory—part drawn from life.

2016

Zeitgeist gallery, Nashville, TN/2 person show w/Alicia Henry

Fouladi Projects Gallery Solo Show

2015

Giant Robot, Los Angeles Post It Show

2014

Solo show Fouladi Projects Gallery

Art Market San Francisco Art FairFouladi Projects Gallery

Zeitgeist Gallery Group Show

2013

Fouladi Projects GalleryGroup Show

2010

Serve to the Left Take from the Right, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles

Beyond arcadia Group show of Landscape and Installation, Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco

Giant Robot, New York Post it show

2009

The New York Times Gallery Seven. “Sketchbook Obsessions”

Giant Robot, New York.

2005

Jack Hanley, San Francisco

Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Abano, Italy

Froden Gallery, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles

2004

Barret Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Monica

Abbey Church Gallery, San Diego

Studio Fly Art Gallery, Charleston

2001

Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

Terrain Gallery, San Francisco

Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome

"Abstraction," Group Exhibition, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek

2000

Amos Eno Gallery, New York

1999

Teatrio Cultural Association Museum, Milan and Venice

1998

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

Storyopolis Gallery, Los Angeles

1996

New Pop, Rome, Musei Sevici, Venice

The Women's Room, Parson School of Design, New York

Every Picture Tells a Story, Los Angeles

1995

Shiseido Ginza Gallery, Group Exhibition, Tokyo

Illustration Gallery, New York

website:

http://www.karenbarbour.com

exhibitions:

How May I Help You?

Cannonball Run III