Karen Yurkovich, a Canadian artist of international repute who lives
in Perugia, Italy, much of the year, returns to Seattle for her sixth solo
exhibition at Linda Hodges Gallery. In Natur(e), Yurkovich presents a new
body of oil on canvas and hemp paintings, the subject and theme of which
concern the artist's continued interest in the natural world and our
manipulation of it.
Noted for her delicately balanced still-life paintings, Yurkovich
masterfully combines an nearly clinical dissection of flora with a
distinctly painterly style. The resulting work, as described by the Italian
art critic, Marco Tomasini, "emanate very few certainties," allowing a
living, evolving interpretation of the subject.
Karen Yurkovich received a BFA and MFA from the University of Alberta,
Canada, and has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in
Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited extensively in Canada, the
United States and Italy, including solo shows in Milan and Rome. Her awards
include a Vancouver Foundation Grant and an Alberta Heritage Scholarship.
Articles on her artwork have appeared in newspapers and journals in Canada
and the United States. Her work is in numerous public and private collection
throughout Canada, Germany, Italy and the USA.
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