Karen Kane
Karen Kane's art is primarily generated through a visual and tactile discussion with internal and external forces -- emotion, memory, color, nature, structure, light, language, poetry. This discussion becomes the process and the expression itself. Her paintings and drawings begin in a place -- an image, an idea, a color, a feeling -- and evolve into form and color that are derived from that origin. Her work, however, quickly transfers to activity in a spatial environment that relates primarily to itself. The energy she feels when interacting with a point of inspiration and her materials moves her to create a visual that is an improvisation of color and form, thus evolving beyond representation of visible life to a place where new relationship is created, where energy develops beyond reasoning.
Karen Kane has studied art, beginning in her post-college years, as an independent student at various institutions including UMass Amherst and Hampshire College, and with independent teachers in Massachusetts, Vermont and California.
Group Exhibit; Bette’s Life & Times café; Williamstown, MA; 1992
Group Exhibit; Southwestern Vermont Medical Center; Bennington, VT; 1995
North Adams Open Studios; North Adams, MA; 2007
NARH Community Art Exhibit; North Adams Regional Hospital; North Adams, MA; 2008
Group Exhibit; North Adams Artist Co-op Gallery; North Adams, MA; 2008
"Realism Let Loose"; The NAOUSSA GALLERY, Tyringham, MA; 2008
Three-Person Exhibit; North Adams Artist Co-op Gallery, North Adams, MA; 2008
Group Exhibit; 2nd Annual Berkshire Salon; Eclipse Mill Gallery; North Adams, MA; 2009
"La Mesa"; North Adams Artist Co-op Gallery; North Adams, MA; 2009
"Imaged Words: Group Exhibit of Authors & Artists"; Eclipse Mill Gallery; North Adams, MA; 2009
Four-Person Exhibit; North Adams Open Studios; Studio21South; Beaver Mill, North Adams, MA; 2009
"Snow Show"; Studio21South; Beaver Mill, North Adams, MA; 2010
"Winter Studies" solo exhibit; Papyri Books; North Adams, MA; 2010
Small Works solo exhibits (periodic), Wild Oats Market Café; Williamstown, MA; 2012-19
"Re-Fresh"; Berkshire Art Association; Lichtenstein Center for the Arts; Pittsfield, MA; 2022
"Hot Colors"; Future Lab(s) Gallery; North Adams, MA; 2022
"Unfinished"; Berkshire Art Association; Lichtenstein Center for the Arts; Pittsfield, MA; 2023
"Reflections"; Guild of Berkshire Artists; Art on Main Gallery; West Stockbridge, MA; 2023
"Berkshire Bounty"; Guild of Berkshire Artists; Colonial Theater; Pittsfield, MA; 2023
"Near & Far"; Guild of Berkshire Artists; Colonial Theater; Pittsfield, MA; 2023
"Berkshire Invitational"; Future Lab(s) Gallery; North Adams, MA; 2024
"Cold & Dark"; Beacon Cinema; Pittsfield MA; 2024
"Visible"; Berkshire Art Association; Lichtenstein Center for the Arts; Pittsfield MA; 2024
"Juried Arts & Crafts Show"; Art in the Berkshires; Eastover Contemporary Arts Space; Lenox, MA; 2025
"Capsule Previews" mention, Artscope Magazine; Future Lab(s) Gallery January exhibit; 2024
Williamstown, MA | Visit: Karen Kane
