Kara Maria

American, Born 1968, Binghamton, New York / Lives in San Francisco, California

Kara Maria's work fuses abstraction and representation. A wide variety of issues - from environmental crisis to international politics and war - feed into her paintings and works on paper. She hopes the work communicates a sense of humor and playfulness as well as an engagement with the state of the world we live in today. Although many issues are referenced, the work itself remains non-linear, seeking to raise questions rather than to give answers.

1998 MFA, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
1993 BA with honors, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 • Virtuata, Cloud Nine, Milpitis, CA
2009 • b. sakata garo, Inviting the Storm, Sacramento, CA
2008 • Catharine Clark Gallery, Dystopia, San Francisco, CA
2007 • Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Paradise Lost, Ojai, CA
2006 • Arts Visalia, Zigzag, Visalia, CA
2005 • Smith Andersen Editions, Airborne, Palo Alto, CA
2004 • Miller/Block Gallery, Almost Paradise, Boston, MA
2002 • Catharine Clark Gallery, Fools Rush In, San Francisco, CA
2001 • Ampersand International Arts, Fabricator, San Francisco, CA
• Babilonia 1808, Emerging Bay Area Artist Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
• Catharine Clark Gallery, Plastic Picnic, San Francisco, CA
2000 • a.o.v., Plastic Dreams, San Francisco, CA
1999 • Cité Internationale des Arts, Doggie Doo Hop Scotch, Paris, France
1998 • Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Introductions, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
• The Performance Art Institute, Keeping An Eye On Surveillance, San Francisco, CA
• Beacon Arts Building, TEL-ART-PHONE, Inglewood, CA
• Allegra LaViola Gallery, Pornucopia, New York, NY
2010
• SFMOMA, Shadowshop, San Francisco, CA
• Hamamjian Modern, sfTWOflatSHOW, San Francisco, CA
• Humboldt State University, Reese Bullen Gallery, Banned ...