Untitled from the Notebook Paper Series (black/white) by Karen Reimer

Framed embroidery, 10.5 x 8", 2004

Value: $3500; Opening Bid: $1200; Buy Now: $3700

Artist Bio:

Karen Reimer has a BA from Bethel College, Kansas, near where she grew up, and an MFA from the University of Chicago, the city where she now resides. Her work is rooted equally in the traditions of domestic craft and the traditions of conceptual art and has been exhibited at: LAXART, Los Angeles; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Owens Art Gallery, Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick; Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago; and Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, IL. She is a recipient of the Artadia and Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Awards, and the Women's Caucus for Art's President's Award. Recent solo and group exhibitions include The Map vs The Walk, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS (2022); Human/Nature, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL (2022); Outside In, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2019); Unravelled, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon, (2016); Shoretime Spaceline, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2016); Material Gestures: Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (2014); Wall Text, Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago (2012); Endless Set, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago (2012); and Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, (2012). Endless,-the first major publication on Karen's pioneer craft aesthetic-was published by Gallery 400 and WhiteWalls in 2015. Her work is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.