The Workshop meets on Tuesday, April 20th from 6-8pm in Room 206 in the Ed Center, 25 St Philip St.

Samples of Karen’s Artwork: BIOGRAPHY:  KAREN ANN MYERS

Karen Ann Myers is an artist, educator and curator. She received an MFA in Painting from Boston University and a BFA in Studio Art from Michigan State University. She is currently serving as the assistant director at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC. In addition, Myers an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston, teaching in the Art Management Department.

Myers has exhibited extensively throughout the country. Her paintings and works on paper exist nationally in private collections and have most recently been exhibited at LUIS DE JESUS gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Robert Steele Gallery in NY, NY, at the Commonwealth Gallery in Boston, MA, the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC, the FAB gallery at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Alabama Birmingham and Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, SC.

Most recently, Myers was nominated to participate in the 2011 South Carolina Biennial at 701 Center for Contemporary Art. This exhibition is the first survey of contemporary South Carolina art since the fifth and last South Carolina Triennial in 2004. The exhibition presented 24 artists from South Carolina currently producing some of the most exciting contemporary art in the state.

“Karen Ann Myers is a skilled painter who has created an impressive body of work that explores what it means to be a young woman, circa 2012. Her slim female figures are usually scantily clad, but they always look a little ill at ease, like they’re not quite at home in their own bodies. They sit or lie on their beds, or on the floor, both self-protective and flaunting—the epitome of the young woman whose bedroom is a cozy sanctum of extravagant surfaces (floral duvets, striped sheets, expensive wallpaper). Lost in their own little worlds—imagining future sexual conquests?—these virginal lovelies are nearly consumed by the glorious patterns and prints that surround them.” — Pamela S. Wall, Curator of Exhibitions, Gibbes Museum of Art for the Oxford American – March, 2012

“The paintings of Karen Ann Myers explore the contours of female desire in a sex-saturated, pattern-rich contemporary feminist milieu steeped in ennui and longing. Her subjects often confront the viewer with a powerful, confident gaze made all the more jarring by the sexualized context. Using the flattened painterly space as a metaphor, Myers presents myriad aspects of feminine agency with an unsettling clarity. In a sense, she is providing a personal glimpse into interior worlds normally reserved for fiction.” – Mark Sloan, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston

To learn more about Karen Ann Myers, please visit http://www.karenannmyers.com.

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