Karen Ganz
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1Artist: Karen Ganz
Title: Cat and Mouse
Medium: Limited ed signed print
Dimensions: 48 X 21 in
The work Karen Ganz is influenced by 1920s cartoon and comic strip characters. She works often with large canvases and collage, using ink drawings overlaid with bright colors. Her paintings and drawings invoke a sense of nostalgia, humor, and concern for the predicament of the "common man."
From the artist's statement: "...I use these images and very gestural painting as metaphors for psychological states of mind. Attachment, questions of being an "individual" within "the group",assimilation and role-playing interest me. I use a frankenstein-like approach to piece together figures/images and use multiple broken-up canvases to further the fragmentation of those images. This first came up in the heavy collage work of my drawings which I allowed to change the way that I approach my painting. My approach to painting also has been influenced by early films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton that I arrived at by way of Twyla Tharp and Samuel Beckett. I approach a show as a "staged" experience, and my job as that of choreographer of the work."
Donated By Karen Ganz