Karen E Joyce

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
The language of painting opens up a field of inquiry that constitutes my experience: the exchange between the past and present that keeps me moving forward, giving me the opportunity to explore and record my interaction with the events that emerge through my participation. Completing the cycle is the material, process and context of metaphor in action providing me with an avenue of direct experience that allows a momentary, weighted, transitory glimpse of the truth that is my reality.
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Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, MAE
Harvard Extension, Cambridge, MA
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
San Francisco Art Institute MFA
University of Wisconsin, Bachelor of Science

Wildwood Opal Alice Studio - Nashua, NH
2010 Art Therapy!
2009 Lesley University Gallery - Cambridge, MA
2008 SWAN Day 2008 - Nashua, NH
2007 Florence Biennale - Florence, Italy
2006 Don O'Melveny Gallery - West Hollywood, CA
2004 The Election Show, Illinois State University - Normal, IL
2004 Extremely Shorts 7, Aurora Picture Show - Houston, TX
2003 Shikishi: Gifts of Art for the New Year - Walnut Creek, CA
2000 GypsyCircus Studios - Memphis, TN
1998 Open Studio - Drawing from the figure - Germantown, TN
1997 Arkansas Art Center, 24th Prints, Drawings - Little Rock, AK
1996 VAAN Annual Art Exhibit, Watkins Institute - Nashville, TN
1996 untitled Artopia, Marathon Village - Nashville, TN
1992 WCA Book Show, Mills College - Oakland, CA
1991 Three East Bay Artists, Pacific Bell - San Ramon, CA
1990 San Francisco Art Institute, Walter McBean Gallery - San Francisco, CA
1990 Artspace, Installation for Corners Show - San Francisco, CA
1987 San Francisco Art Institute, Annual Show - San Francisco, CA
1985 The Point Gallery, Inaugural Gallery - San Francisco, CA,

Publications:
Poetry of Live versus Death: Art Therapy Unpublished manuscript, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
For This I am Grateful, Everyday Wisdom Press
Healing Children: Therapeutic Space in Child Art Therapies Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley, CA