Just Beyond Painting

Karleen’s work is a continuation of her infatuation with line as a force and direction for movement as well as communication. The energy and expression in a simple line or stroke dynamically draws your eye from one place to another guiding the viewer to see it for its own beauty as it directs and manipulates the color and texture around it. In her most recent work she uses the automatic stroke or mark as a form of quasi literal communication which can neither be read nor understood.