Karla Wozniak’s paintings straddle the line between representation and abstraction, and contain idiosyncratic marks and exuberant color. Her recent paintings are meditations on the hyper local space of her home — a small physical area laced with a boundless potential for magic. In these paintings the mundanity of parenthood meets the uninhibited imagination of childhood. Explosive color and tactile surfaces build these psychological spaces, which are filled with anxiety and humor. Her distinctions include a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship (2011); participation in the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace program (2011); participation in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program (2009-10); and MacDowell Fellowships (2007-2008, 2005-2006). Her work has been featured in a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Village Voice, and the Huffington Post, among others. Her work is included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Knoxville Museum of Art permanent collections. Her recent solo exhibitions include “The Valley Electric” at Gregory Lind Gallery, and “Magic Mountain” at Francis Colburn Gallery at the University of Vermont. Recent group exhibitions include “Currents” at Knoxville Museum of Art, “Six” at Regina Rex in New York, and “Fortune Teller Chatter” at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA.
Karla Wozniak
Studios
New Hampshire
Karla Wozniak 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…