Artist Profile: Karen & Marc Collaborations

Artist Statement

This work is about relationships: how we relate to each other and to the materials. It's a dance of the media, the colors, the textures, the materials, and our own individual ideas of how the finished piece should look. There is a subtle complexity to this work: the more one looks at the piece, the more one sees. The challenge is to marry all of these different characteristics into an elegant and harmonious whole that reflects the natural surroundings from which the materials come. Ultimately each piece should look like the perfect, long-term relationship: one that you can't imagine any other way. In our case, Marc starts the sentence with raku and Karen finishes it with fiber.

COLLECTIONS:

Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, Colorado Springs, CO

Wingate University, Wingate, NC

United States Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs, CO

SHOWS:

American Craft Council Show, San Francisco, CA

American Craft Council Show, Atlanta, GA

American Craft Council Show, Baltimore MD

American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL

American Fine Craft Show, NYC, NY

Charlotte Contemporary, NC

CraftBoston, MA

Faces of Fiber, Invitational - BEST OF SHOW
Fiber Arts Council of Estes Park (FACE), CO

Fahrenheit Group exhibitions, Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs, CO

Firestorm: Woven Together, Manitou Springs, CO

Forever Yours, The Land, a Palmer Land Trust event. Colorado Springs, CO

Old Spokes: 40th Anniversary of Commonwheel Artists Coop, Manitou Springs, CO (Marc)

Palm Beach Contemporary, FL

Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, FL

Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, PA

Raku Currents, Steelville CLAY Fest's International Juried Raku Exhibition, MO, 2015 (Marc)

Uncommon Clay, The Bridge Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO 2020

Washington Craft Show, Washington D.C.