"Born in 1956 in San Francisco, Karen Barbour lives and works in Inverness, CA. Her paintings evidence a dazzling hallucination, a private language pieced together through a relentless spiritual pursuit, and an index of seemingly endless revisions, propositions, and barely-perceptible apparitions that thoroughly attenuate our perceptual faculties. Her work develops slowly over great lengths of time, and she has been focused for the past several years on reworking paintings begun in the 80s and 90s."
"Here she useses her own paintings as a kind of baseline for further elaboration and investigation, accumulating marks slowly and deliberately, only to cut back into the surface in bold gestures. She composes them via a process that is simultaneously additive and subtractive, and time spent in their presence leads to myriad discoveries, inside the bounds of the canvas, and out."
Karen Barbour, born in 1956 in San Francisco and based in Inverness, CA, produces paintings characterized by a dazzling hallucination and a private visual language emerging from spiritual pursuit. Her works register seemingly endless revisions, propositions, and barely perceptible apparitions that alter perceptual experience. She develops paintings over long periods and has recently focused on reworking works begun in the 1980s and 1990s. Barbour uses earlier paintings as baselines, accumulating marks slowly and deliberately before cutting back with bold gestures. Her method is both additive and subtractive, and sustained viewing yields multiple discoveries. She earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from UC Davis.
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