Karen Marki is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of December 2019. She is an award-winning artist based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her current series, “Nature Deconstructed”, are abstract and creative studies of elements, foliage and seasonal change.

Karen’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of December 2019. The gallery will promote Karen and her work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,700+ buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Karen’s Biography below as she describes her process and inspiration in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see her exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Karen’s work, please visit her website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Karen’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Karen and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Artist Biography

Originally from San Francisco, Karen Marki is currently based in Vancouver, BC where she has lived for the past twelve years. She works primarily in acrylics on canvas and her 20 years of working for social justice and urban-focused non-profit organizations has helped inform her craft and inspiration as a painter.

Early on, she began experimenting with how to make new items look old…inducing rust on metal, oxidization on copper, patina on bronze. This led to a painting process that includes scraping, sanding and manipulating pigments with unorthodox tools and organic utensils. Each of her works are layers of several paintings built onto the canvas like an excavation site, encouraging the viewer to look closely to see the transformation that has taken shape. She is interested in the colors and juxtaposition of urban and natural environments – chartreuse moss clinging to a weathered telephone pole, crimson leaves pressed against wet concrete, lavender hyacinths sprouting from the cracks of aged bricks. She also prefers painting on cloudy days as the filtered light creates the mood and sentiment of her art…an appreciation for the weathered and the tarnished.

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