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Karen Whitman grew up in the suburbs of New York City, and visited "the city" nearly every weekend where she developed an appreciation and love for its architecture and its unique vitality. She has a special affinity with the graphic quality and detail of its vibrant streets and massive structures while imbuing them with a warmth and playful accessibility.
After completing a B.F.A. degree in Printmaking from State University of New York at Buffalo, Whitman lived in Manhattan for 18 years, where she studied at the Art Students League and Parsons School of Design, and continued to be inspired by her urban environment. In 1991 she discovered the art colony of Woodstock, NY and moved there in 1994. She continues to go to New York City weekly to sketch, work on prints, visit galleries, and participate in exhibitions.
Karen specializes in linoleum cuts (linoleum block prints), primarily of New York City, which she prints on both antique and modern presses. She has exhibited extensively throughout the country and has won numerous national awards, including Medals of Honor from Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists (twice), The National Association of Women Artists and The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club. Her work is in numerous public and private collections and is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America.
The prints of Karen Whitman were featured in the December, 2002 issue of American Artist Magazine.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
The Old Print Shop 150 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016 (212) 683-3950 www oldprintshop.com
Platt Fine Art 561 West Diversey Pkwy., Chicago, IL 60614 (773) 251-2500 www.plattfineart.com
Herbert Halpern Fine Arts 1520 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA (504) 524-6921 www.herberthalpernfinearts.com
American Legacy Gallery 5911 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64113 (816) 444-7944
Paramour Fine Arts P.O. Box 250573, Franklin, MI 48025-0573 (248) 467-7377 www.paramourfinearts.com
EXHIBITIONS
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Solo* and Two Person
The Interchurch Center, NYC 2008*
Belskie Museum of Art, Closter, NJ, 2008
Wagner College Art Gallery, S. I., NY 2008
The Old Print Shop, 2007, 2002
The Livingroom Gallery, Kingston, NY 2007, 2004
The Woodstock Artists Association, NY 2005-2006
The Pen and Brush, NYC, 2004*
Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY, 2004
Perkins Gallery, Stoughton, MA, 2004
Azarian-McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill,
NY 2003*
Simone's Gallery, Pelham, NY 2003
Bird-In-Hand Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2001*
Group Exhibitions
Fyre Gallery, Braidwood, Austrailia (SAGA), 2010
Contemporary Printmakers, The Old Prints Shop, NYC, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2001
Salmagundi Club Annual Juried Exhibitions for Non-Members, 2007, 2009
Tide Lines: New Prints of the Staten Island Waterfront, Noble Maritime Collection, S.I., NY 2006
Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society,
New-York Historical Society, NYC, 2004-2005 (Accompanying book by
same title by Marilyn Symmes, Princeton Architectural Press)
Relief Prints in Woodstock, Kleinert-James Gallery, Woodstock, NY, 2004
Allied Artists of America Annual Exhibitions, National Arts Club,
NYC, 2003-present
Audubon Artists Annual Exhibitions, Salmagundi Club, NYC, 2002-present
Pressing Work, 13 Printmakers from The National Association of Women
Artists, Gallery 928, NYC, 2004
Seton Hall University Art Museum, South Orange, NJ, 1996, 2004
Hofstra Museum at 40: Works on Paper, Hofstra University, Hempstead,
NY 2003 (catalogue)
Transit Views: Selected Prints from the New York Society of Etchers,
New York Transit Museum, NYC, 2003
Washington Printmakers National Small Works Exhibition, Washington,
D.C., 2003
McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University,
Lake Charles, LA, 2003
A Century on Paper: Prints from Art Students League Artists
1901-2001, UBS/Paine Webber Gallery, NYC, 2002
Silvermine National Print Biennials, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan,
CT, 2000, 2003, 2006
Woodstock School of Art Instructors and Lecturer's Exhibition, 1999, 2003
National Association of Women Artists Annual Exhibitions, 2001-present
45th Annual National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art,
Clinton, NJ, 2001
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Exhibitions, National Arts
Club, NYC, 1999-present
Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin,
Kenosha, WI, 1998, 1999
Wagner College Gallery, Staten Island, NY 1998
Schenectady Museum, Print Club of Albany Members Exhibitions,
Schenectady, NY, 1995, 1998
Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, 1995
Walsh Art Gallery, Contemporary American Printmakers, Fairfield
University, Fairfield, CT 1994
Society of American Graphic Artists National Exhibitions, 1994-present
AWARDS
Salmagundi Club Award for Graphics, Allied Artists of America, 2009
Jack Richeson and Co. Golden Brush Award, Audubon Artists, 2009
Mary Lou Fitzgerald Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America, 2008, 2004
Bruce Crane Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club, NYC 2007
Gold Medal of Honor for Graphics, Audubon Artists, 2007, 2006
Gold Medal of Honor for Graphics, Allied Artists of America, 2006
National Arts Club Award for Graphics, Allied Artists of America, 2005
Roberta Waddell Award, Society of American Graphic Artists, 2004
Sally Jacobs-Phoebe Towbin Award, Woodstock Artists Association, 2004
Alan Koff Award, Best in Show, Woodstock Artists Association, 2004
Stelly Sterling Memorial Award for Printmaking, National Association
of Women Artists (NAWA), 2003
Medal of Honor for Graphics (NAWA), 2002
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award (NAWA), 2002
Solo Exhibition Award, Pen and Brush, 2002
Yasuo Kuniyoshi Fund Award, Woodstock, NY, 2001
Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art
Club, 2001
Rembrandt Graphic Arts Printmaking Award, Hunterdon Museum of Art, 2001
Medal of Honor for Graphics, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 1999
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The British Museum, London, England
Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
New York Public Library, NYC
Museum of the City of New York, NYC
New York Transit Museum, NYC
New -York Historical Society, NYC
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Taiwan University Institute of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
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