Discipline: Visual Art

Karen Schifano

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979

Karen Schifano (b. 1955), a painter based in Brooklyn, is intrigued by the mind's ability to recognize, conceptualize, and manifest spatial constructs simply through the use of shape, edge, and color. Recent inspiration derives from theater stages, mouths, product labels, doorways, and windows; framed openings that can also be read as object or symbol, abstract shape, and metaphor. Karen received a B.A. in art history from Swarthmore College, an M.F.A. from Hunter College, and fellowships from MacDowell and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Karen has exhibited widely in this country as well as in Europe, Australia, and Japan. Recent notable shows include NY Art Live! at Umeda Gallery in Osaka, Japan, The Warmth of Winter at the National Arts Club, NY, NY, Doppler Shift at the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts in Summit, NJ, Color, Shape and Form at Galerie Gris in Hudson, NY, Capture the Rapture at CB1 Gallery in LA, and Abstract Wall Paintings III and Oppler, both at Transmitter Gallery in New York City.

Studios

New Hampshire

Karen Schifano worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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