Michael Kareken
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Landscapes / 2017-2021

This series of watercolor monotypes was produced in collaboration with the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. The work focuses on the landscape where I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.  The monotypes were made by painting with watercolor on a thin polyester plate which was then transferred to a sheet of paper on the press.  I used both additive and subtractive processes to make the images, putting down washes and marks that were allowed to dry before being lifted and revised by re-wetting the plate.

Information about the series is available from The Highpoint Center for Printmaking.

 

Landscapes / 2017-2021

Trees at Beach 4, watercolor monotype, 22.5” x 29.5”

This series depicts the landscape where I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The work focuses on locations that have special meaning to me: the woods and shoreline of the San Juan Islands and the Olympic Peninsula.  As a child I was overwhelmed by the drama of this landscape - its scale and ever-shifting quality of light and atmosphere made a tremendous impression on me.  Those early experiences remain vivid in my imagination, and the work is meant to convey the beauty and mystery I felt and still feel in those places.