Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/21/2024
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Fremont Centre Properties
Category(ies)
“Celebrating Nature” (Photo – SPARC Gallery)
“Celebrating Nature,” an exhibition of mixed media works on paper by artist Karen Steen will be presented by the South Pasadena Arts Council (SPARC), opening Saturday, September 21, 2024, with a public reception from 3:00 to 6:00 pm at the new SPARC Centre Gallery at the Fremont Centre in South Pasadena.
Inspired by a natural environment under threat, Steen says she views her vibrant, buoyant works “as ecosystems, a group of diverse elements and forces that have settled into a balanced and dynamic system.” These are interpreted through an amalgamation of painting, drawing, and paper shapes laser-cut from images of life forms in the natural world. “I attempt to imbue my pieces with qualities of the biological world: diversity, repetition, intricacy, rhythm, balance and interconnection,” she states.
Steen’s interest in nature’s diverse ecosystems began in a childhood fascination with tidepools—“small worlds filled with life.” In addition to academic degrees from ArtCenter College of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Steen, based in Pasadena and a South Pasadena native, is a certified California Naturalist.
“Celebrating Nature” runs through November 9, 2024. The new SPARC Centre Gallery is at the Fremont Centre, 1000 Fremont Ave., Suite 120, South Pasadena. Entrance in rear parking lot. Gallery hours will vary after the Sept. 21 opening. To schedule visits on other dates during the run of the show, contact curator Blue Trimarchi at (626) 676-4195. Admission is free.
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