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Karen Woods Artist Statement The imagery in the work is taken from my immediate environment. Since 1994, excepting a brief stay in the Midwest, my “immediate environment” has been Boise, Idaho. During this time I’ve been attracted to the co-existence and interaction of natural and constructed elements in my surroundings. Increasingly my work has focused on streetscapes. Cars, traffic signals, road construction, empty lots, intersections, and power lines: this is my landscape. These elements are not considered traditional source material for a landscape painter. Yet I find them challenging, exciting, and at the same time contemplative and unpretentious: tremendously compelling. Taking cues from both Eastern and Western landscape traditions, my aim is to create an intimate space at any scale. I seek to capture and expand the depth of a moment in everyday life—to catch a glimpse--and then to reveal its accompanying emotional weight: its anticipation, reflection, isolation, longing and transcendence.  top Karen Woods' page Artists Represented |
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