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Karen Kaapcke
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  • Paintings
    • Figurative Painting
      • Election Cycle (The 4 Colors)
      • Wages of Pestilence and Folly
      • Paintings to Music
      • Self-Portraits
      • Portraits
      • Figurative Archive
    • Interiors/Exteriors
    • Still Life
    • Harlem in March
    • Occupy Wall Street
      • "Painting Occupy"
    • Oil Sketches
    • Mom
    • Adolescence
      • essay on Adolescence/Ambivalence
      • audio recording for Adolescent with Headphones
      • audio recording for Adolescent with Two Fists and Pink Triangle
    • Die-in/Hands Up
      • my work in BBC: The News in Pictures
  • Drawings
    • Figures
      • Sleep
      • Swimmers
      • Food of Love
      • Bandage/Eyepatch/Recovery
    • Shards
    • Still Life
      • Objects
      • Mattresses
      • Chairs
    • 4 Gares
    • Self Portraits 2015
      • Drawing 50 Blog
    • The Four Quartets
      • BN
      • EC
      • DS
      • LG
    • Drawing Sandy
    • Scaffolding
    • Park Drawings
    • Illustrative
    • Tronies
    • Drawing Archive
  • What's Happening
    • things of note in the past
    • selected press archive
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Newsletter/Contact/Purchasing Work
    • Life's Stages Catalog
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  • About
  • Paintings
    • Figurative Painting
      • Election Cycle (The 4 Colors)
      • Wages of Pestilence and Folly
      • Paintings to Music
      • Self-Portraits
      • Portraits
      • Figurative Archive
    • Interiors/Exteriors
    • Still Life
    • Harlem in March
    • Occupy Wall Street
      • "Painting Occupy"
    • Oil Sketches
    • Mom
    • Adolescence
      • essay on Adolescence/Ambivalence
      • audio recording for Adolescent with Headphones
      • audio recording for Adolescent with Two Fists and Pink Triangle
    • Die-in/Hands Up
      • my work in BBC: The News in Pictures
  • Drawings
    • Figures
      • Sleep
      • Swimmers
      • Food of Love
      • Bandage/Eyepatch/Recovery
    • Shards
    • Still Life
      • Objects
      • Mattresses
      • Chairs
    • 4 Gares
    • Self Portraits 2015
      • Drawing 50 Blog
    • The Four Quartets
      • BN
      • EC
      • DS
      • LG
    • Drawing Sandy
    • Scaffolding
    • Park Drawings
    • Illustrative
    • Tronies
    • Drawing Archive
  • What's Happening
    • things of note in the past
    • selected press archive
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Newsletter/Contact/Purchasing Work
    • Life's Stages Catalog
    • Contact
    • Subscribe to newsletter
    • SWIMMERS I book
    • Purchasing Work

"Karen Kaapcke is story-minded, and works largely with the figure; she trusts the image that emerges, allowing it to remain as raw material as she crafts her narrative.  Karen works to form a narrative that has no literal meaning but rather one that relies on a feeling of physical space, as if it were in a poem, a metaphor, or a dream.  She crowds or disperses her subjects into funnelled corners, or cavernous rooms, raising or pitching their foundations so that they seem at any minute to fall off the canvas or remain in their space for an undetermined time. Her relationship with the edge of the canvas is historical.  She holds the tradition of painting in view as an edge, pushing and pulling at the tradition to contain and at the same time open up, the narrative". 
​-Joanna Karatzas, 2017
 

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