Friday Favorite: Karen Margolis

This Friday’s featured artist is Karen Margolis.
I love the intricacy and delicateness of her work!

Allentown/Bethlehem, 2010, 40"x28”, 3 layers of maps, watercolor, marker

She writes:
The Enso, Japanese for circle, is my inspiration for imagery.
It is a sacred symbol in Zen Buddhism, embodying infinity and perfection.
Maps offer the implicit promise of direction…the holes subvert ability of any map to communicate coherent information; but as maps are layered on top of each other, passageways emerge into internal spaces,
leaving open possibilities for creating something new from those lost areas.

Lake Champlain, 2010, 26"x18”, 3 layers of maps, watercolor, marker

Zaohua, 2014, 15"x10”, maps, abaca, thread, cotton covered wire, acrylic

Detail of Zaohua

Baburu, 2014, 72"x60”, map fragments, pins, acrylic, aatercolor, cotton covered wire, pins

Detail of Baburu

After receiving her BS in Psychology from Colorado State University, Margolis continued her research in Neural Psychology while studying portraiture at the Art Student’s League. She furthered her studies in art at Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts. During a Microscopy course at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, through the New York Microscopical Society, Margolis was inspired to diverge from her investigation of figurative art to create work exploring the universality of macro/micro patterns.

Read more about Karen and see more of her art on her website at karenmargolisart.com!

TGIF!