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Kara Maria is a contemporary American painter who lives and works in San Francisco.〔http://cclarkgallery.com/artists/bios/kara-maria〕 Her work is a visual dialogue between abstraction and representation in paintings, drawings, and prints. It is intended to simultaneously attract and repel, blending the enticing, graphic qualities of painting with the gravitas of a host of social and environmental concerns. Although many issues are referenced, the work itself remains non-linear, seeking to raise questions rather than to give answers.〔Sharon Spain (October 1, 2014) () Recology Artist in Residence Program.〕 After beginning college at a music conservatory on the East Coast, transferring through a few different schools, and spending a year studying and traveling in Europe, Kara Maria moved to San Francisco in 1990 to attend the University of California at Berkeley. There she earned a BA in Art Practice in 1993, followed by an MFA in 1998.〔http://www.saatchiart.com/karamaria〕 According to the Sacramento News & Review: "If scientists could record a visual representation of human emotions, it seems plausible that they would look like Kara Maria's paintings. The San Francisco artist's nonrepresentational geometric shapes are exuberantly hued, well-defined and sharp-edged, and they are interrupted by euphoric swirls or by vague, cloudy patches and an occasional flash of a representational item, like a dog or a fly. They're layered, complicated and electric—just like the workings of the mind. Until scientists figure out how to live stream what human emotions look like and project them on a wall, Maria's work may be the closest thing we've got."〔Editor (February 12, 2015) ("Emotional Electricity" ), Sacramento News & Review.〕 Maria’s work can be found in permanent collections including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; the di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA; the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA among others. She has been the recipient of awards such as a Masterminds Grant from the SF Weekly, San Francisco, CA; a grant from Artadia, New York, NY; and an Eisner Prize from the University of California, Berkeley.〔http://www.artspace.com/kara_maria〕 In 2014-15 Maria was an Artist in Residence at Recology (the San Francisco dump).〔http://www.sfrecycling.com/index.php/about-air〕 She has also completed a residency at Djerassi Artist in Residence Program in 2003,〔http://djerassi.org/alumniupdates.html〕 and will be a Lucas Fellow at the Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA for 2015-16.〔http://montalvoarts.org/fellows/future/〕 Presses including Gallery 16, San Francisco;〔http://www.gallery16.com/index.php?page=editions〕 Shark’s Ink, Lyons, CO;〔http://www.sharksink.com/artists.asp?artists=42〕 and Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA〔http://www.smithandersen.com/#!artists/c1xa5〕 have published her prints. ==Gallery Representation== * (Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kara Maria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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