Aaron Karp is a famous American artist from New York, but has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1979. He worked as an assistant professor of painting and drawing at the University of New Mexico until 1984 and as gallery director and lecturer of design fundamentals at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Karp is known for developing a style of painting utilizing various systems of taping to develop fractured fields of color and space.
Karp has been awarded artist-in-residencies at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in Roswell, NM (1981-2); the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, CO (1998); MacDowell in New Hampshire (2000); The Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, California (2000); the Julia and David White Artists’ Colony in Costa Rica (2001); the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation on Westport Island, Maine (2004); the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (1998); and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia (2013).
Karp’s work has been consistently featured in both solo and group exhibitions in countless renowned museums and collections around the world such as The Guggenheim Museum, University of New York at Albany’s Fine Arts Museum, Duke University Fine Art Museum, La Artcore in Los Angeles, CA, and many more.
Portrait by Jane Abrams
