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Kari Minnick
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My life and my work are a study of contrasts: order and chaos, thick and thin, questioning and acceptance. Using rich surfaces and layers of glass, I contrast fleshy realism with abstraction. One series builds on another. Immediacy and restraint, delicacy and directness, confusion and clarity—I try to balance these contrasts personally and artistically.
Still life elements nod to traditional drawing and painting; often insinuating social groupings, relationships and their consequences. Apples are a potent symbol. They are parts of paradise, apples of knowledge containing mysteries, answers and code.They also represent temptation and perhaps poisonous implications. Many works contain drawings of eggs. Eggs turn up in my work during times of personal challenge and growth. Compelling and complicated, eggs are full of potential yet extremely vulnerable. A deceptively simple form, eggs are challenging to draw. I also see these elements as objects of incredible beauty, figurative and voluptuous.
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