LOTUS GALLERY FortWayne

ARTISTS DEN Valporaiso

MAPLE AVE GALLERY, Evanston

The color, the movement and light of the natural world is what I want people to see in my work. Also the essential beauty of the paint itself, smearing, splashing, dripping. I like to leave evidence of the behavior of paint. I will scrub it on with a brush or knife, scratch it back off, expose remnants of the process. Recently, I am pouring and splattering paint onto the canvas.     -karen moriarty

 Moriarty 's work is somewhat devious..She rips into these ladylike gardens with a modern sense of abstraction...the jaunting brushwork, the vibrant colors, the painterly attitude..a mine-field of influences and techniques fighting for attention."   -dan swartz, fort wayne reader

Alternately influenced by Cezanne, Helen Frankenthaler and Rauschenberg, Karen Moriarty evolves in her study of the natural world splattering and pouring oil paint onto delicately stained canvases. Primarily an oil painter, she has started gluing objects onto some works, experimenting with assemblage, abstraction and combining drawing with painting.

Classicly trained, Moriarty majored in painting early at Fort Wayne Art Institute, lived in San Francisco for a time and then worked in print, television, interior design and all things visual. Later returning to Indiana University FW she “loosened up enough to use a brush again after years of pens and markers” studying with Ushenko and Hrehov. She resuming painting full time and, when opportunity arose, took a studio on Columbia Street, rennovating it and opening a gallery for several years. In 2010 she moved her studio into Lotus Gallery building at1301 S Lafayette Street.

A portion of her work is commissioned paintings of persons, homes and gardens. Her work shows at Lotus Gallery, Fort Wayne IN, Artists' Den, Valporaiso IN, and Maple Avenue Gallery, Evanston IL. Signed giclee prints of the paintings are available through Karen, Lotus Gallery or this website at "Contact Us".

Karen Moriarty

Studio   

1301 South Lafayette  Fort Wayne IN 46802

 260.420.0532