King 5 Evening
See me on the beach with KING 5 Evening, talking about my work and our plastic finds!
To watch the video follow this link: King 5 Evening with Karen Hackenberg
Art and Plastics
Invited by publisher John F. Williams and curated by Deb Rudnick, I am pleased to present an article about my work in the new issue of Salish Magazine!
To read the article follow this link: ART AND PLASTICS by Karen Hackenberg, Spring 2020
Marine Artifact No. 10 (bottle rocket nose-cone, golf tee), 2016, oil on canvas, 6.75″ x 6.75″
Environmental Impact II
Currently on display at The North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, are “Have an Ice Day”, “Fossil Feud”, and “Shades of Green: Amphorae ca. 2012”.
“Produced and curated by David J. Wagner… Discover the fragility and hopeful resiliency of our world through the eyes of more than 20 leading contemporary artists.” – The North Carolina Arboretum
Have an Ice Day, 2015, oil on canvas, 72″ x 60″
Northwest Perspectives: Selections from the Permanent Collection
My painting “The Floating World” from the permanent collection of Hallie Ford Museum of Art is currently hanging indefinitely in this museum show.
“Visitors can explore new ideas of landscape, narrative, identity, form, and process through a variety of paintings, sculptures, and mixed media that highlight both visual and conceptual relationships between historic and contemporary art.” – Hallie Ford Museum of Art
The Floating World, 2015, oil on canvas, 72″ x 60″
The Inspired Woman
Marc Cain Customer Magazine is featuring my painting “The Floating World” in their Spring and Summer 2020 issue The Inspired Woman! It’s a beautiful magazine and I’m honored to be featured among other “inspired” and talented women. Take a look at the full issue here.
The Floating World, 2015, oil on canvas, 72″ x 60″
Celebrate Art
27th Annual Group Exhibition
Patricia Rovzar Gallery
Seattle, 1111 1st Avenue
December 1 – 29, 2019
Please stop by on Thursday, December 5, 6 – 8 PM, during the Pioneer Square Art Walk for the opening of Celebrate Art, featuring new work by me and thirty-nine other represented artists. Patricia Rovzar writes, “…from expressive abstraction to hyper-realism, and from landscape to portraiture, this exhibition brings to life the distinctive character of each artists’ practice. Presenting a wide range of diverse mediums, we are proud to showcase these works as an expression of gratitude to our incredible creative community.”
Copies of my monograph will be available for purchase.
Between Scylla and Charybdis, 2019, oil on linen, 28″ x 35″
Heart Still Beating
Lodown Magazine’s Sven Fortmann reached out to me for an interview in August to be featured in their latest issue GRRRLS. Based in Berlin, Germany, Lodown is distributed internationally, and best described as a “highly influential special interest mag focused on leftfield pop culture and contemporary art.”
Lodown remarks that this issue “presents itself as a celebration of all the uncountable female talent out there that’s dedicating their craft to turn this planet into something more beautiful, smart, reflecting and overall rad again. That’s it, really. It’s a celebration of those individuals with an intact moral and intellectual compass. The days where girls have to be something other than themselves altogether are finally numbered.” Follow this link to view my spread and read my interview with Sven Fortman aka Forty: Karen Hackenberg: Heart Still Beating
Top: Lowdown Magazine GRRRLS Issue Back and Cover
Middle: (detail) Power King II, (Watershed Paintings Series), gouache on paper, 5.5 x 7 inches, 2010
Bottom Left: Toss Up, (The Floating World Series), oil on panel, 45 x 36 inches, 2017
Bottom Right: Crystal Clear, (The Floating World Series), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, 2018
Featured Artist at Seattle Art Fair 2019
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Booth C43
August 1-4, 2019
CenturyLink Field Event Center, 1000 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134
General Fair Information here
Theory of Evolution, 2019, oil on canvas, 60″ x 72″
BlackBook
I am pleased to share that my monograph received some love from BlackBook, “an award-winning Publisher and multi-media platform that produces arts and culture content for The Creative Class demographic.”
To read the article follow this link: Artist Karen Hackenberg’s New Book is a Pop Art Take On Environmental Apocalypse.
A Book of Post-Pop Paintings and Sculpture with a Green Heart
My beautifully printed, limited edition art book features a significant portion of my oeuvre; a light-hearted yet subversive approach to the serious subject of ocean degradation, and a tongue-in-cheek taxonomy of imaginary post-consumer creatures of the sea.
• Dust jacket, corrugated, slipcase version: $49.95.
• Hardcover, bound-book, version: $89.95.
• Limited-edition boxed set, w/ hardcover book and archival print: $450.00
Available for purchase at the following locations:
Patricia Rovzar Gallery • 206-223-0273 • mail@rovzargallery.com
Tacoma Art Musuem • 253-272-4258 ×3005 • store@TacomaArtMuseum.org
Whatcom Museum • 360-778-8975 • email
Smith and Vallee Gallery • 360-305-4919 • email
i.e. • 360-488-3458 • i.e.edisonwa@gmail.com
Port Townsend School of the Arts • At the Gallery across from the Rose Theatre • 236 Taylor St.
My gratitude to Murray Lemley designer/photographer, Lenoirschuring book printers Amsterdam, Wytze Fopma bookbinder Friesland, Riet van der Linden artist and arts-writer, and Christopher Mooney, journalist and contributing editor Art Review!
Follow these links to read the essays in my book:
Riet van der Lindsen, The Aesthetics of Pollution
Christopher Mooney, The Second Coming
Karen Hackenberg, The Unshakeable Habit of Noticing
