KAREN ARM

b. 1962

 

 

EDUCATION 

 

1989     MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY

1985     BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

1983     Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy

1978     Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

 

2016     Light + Heavy, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2011     New Works on Paper, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2008     New Works 2008, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2004     New Paintings 2004, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2001     New Paintings 2001, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1999     Karen Arm 1999, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1998     Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

 

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

 

2022     Entre Centre et Absence, Loong Mah, New York, NY

a million little pieces, VSOP Art & Design Projects, Greenport, NY

2021     Here, There and Everywhere: Women’s Liberation And the Imagination Post Covid Lockdown, curated by Elizabeth Weiss, Foley Gallery, New York, NY

2020     Days Soon to Fade, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2019     Divine Intervention, Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor, NY

            Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY

2017     Only Small Paintings, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY

2016     Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2014     Paper Reveries, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York, New York, NY

            PIEROGI XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012     Art in Embassies Program, Embassy of the United States Rangoon, Burma

2005     NY Loves LV, Main Street, Las Vegas, NV

A Very Liquid Heaven, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2004     200 Drawings: Selections from Pierogi, curated by Annie Heron and Barry Blinderman,

            University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

            New York New York  New Mexico, Annie Herron’s Selection from the Pierogi

            Flat Files, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, Carlsbad, NM

2003     On and Off the Wall: New York Foundation for the Arts' Painting Fellows, Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, NY

            Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

2001     Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY

            Some (Are) Painting, curated by David Gibson, John Gibson Gallery, NY

            Nature Re-visited, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

Pixerina Witcherina, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, AL

2000     Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

The Pierogi Flatfiles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

            Fluid flow, Graham Modern, New York, NY

            @ the artist’s studio, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY

Eye Candy: Contemporary West and East Coast Women Painters, curated by Susan Joyce, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA; Grand Central Art Center, California State University, Santa Ana, CA

            Live from New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999     Brooklyn, New Work, curated by David Brown and Joseph Amrhein, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

            Phenotypology, curated by Maureen McQuillan, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

            Rage for Art (Pierogi Reborn), Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

1998     Pierogi Goes to College, Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY

            Pierogi 2000, New York, The Flatfiles, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

            The Flatfiles, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

            Southern Exposure, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

            Wallpaper, curated by Lisa Jacobs, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York, NY

            Drawings, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY

1997     Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

            Drawing Room, ARENA, Brooklyn, NY

            Recurrence, Gallery Korea, New York, NY

            New York Drawers: The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Gasworks, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

            Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1996     Dots & Lines, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

            Material Madness, the Workspace Gallery, New York, NY

            Influenced by Nature, the Studio at Curly Willow, East Hampton, NY

            The Exchange Show, ARENA, New York, NY

The Lyrical, the Expressionist and the Poetic, curated by Michael Walls, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY

1995     Soul in C Minor, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

            The Color of No Color, Art Initiatives, New York, NY

            Natural, ARENA, Brooklyn, NY

            Nature Revisited, Marymount Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY

Not For Sale, Exhibit and Benefit Auction for Laura Cottingham’s “Women’s Art of the Seventies,” Flamingo East, New York, NY

            Reconstituted Paint, curated by Seth Ferris, K&E Gallery, New York, NY

1994     Chamber 2, Chamber, New York, NY

1993     The Light from Behind, The New York Law School, Art Initiatives, New York, NY

            re/SOURCE, curated by Bill Barrell and Lily Prince, First Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

            File Pix, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY

1991     The Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, Brooklyn, NY

            1 .4 Show, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY

1990     Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, NY

1983     Tenderize Graphich (Graphic Trends), Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy

 

 

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 

 

The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Collection of Rubin, Baum, Levin, Constant, and Friedman, New York, NY

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

 

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

2002     New York Foundation for the Arts, Award for Painting

 

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 

2016     Brody, David. “Haptic Hallucinations: The ‘Suns’ and ‘Wavy Rays’ of Karen Arm,” artcritical, June 18, 2016.

            Garriques, Stephen. “The Abstract Galactic Paintings of Karen Arm,” Galerie Project, May 26, 2016.

Recinos, Eve. “Explosive Field Paintings Capture the Sun’s Brilliance,” The Creators Project: Vice Magazine, June 6, 2016.

2011     Streitfeld, Lisa Paul. “(R)evolution in Consciousness: The Book of Symbols Launch at the Rubin Museum,” Huffington Post.

2008     “Paintings,” The New York Sun. Reproduction of Untitled Sun #1. March 6, 2008.

2005     A Very Liquid Heaven. Ed. Ian Berry. Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, 2005. pg.121-129. Image and artist dialogue.

2004     Gomez, Edward M.  “Another World: Evaluating and appreciating abstract art,” Art and Antiques, September 2004, p. 46-53.

2002     Conger, Bill (curator). Pixerina Witcherina. University Galleries, Illinois State University,

            IL, 2002.

            The Paris Review: Issue 162, 2002. Reproduction of Untitled 1998.

            Sheets, Hillarie M. “Karen Arm: P.P.O.W,” (review of New Paintings). ARTnews, March 2002.    

2001     Johnson, Ken, “Some (are) Painting,” The New York Times, June 29, 2001.

2000     Bonetti, David. “Driven to dynamic abstraction,” San Francisco Examiner, Jan 28, 2000. p C-15.

            Catalogue, Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2000.

            Eye Candy: Contemporary West and East Coast Women Painters, Catalogue. Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, 2000. Essays by Susan Joyce and Roberta Carasso, Ph.D. 

            2000. Essays by Susan Joyce and Roberta Carasso, Ph.D.

            “Fluid Flow,” Art Guide, New York Times, August 11, 2000.

            “Art on Paper 2000,” News & Record, December 2000. p.10.

            “Touring in New Directions,” Winston Salem Journal, Dec. 31, 2000.

1999     Bell, J. Bowyer. Review, Review, September 15, 1999.          

            Findsen, Owen. “’Brooklyn Exhibit Quirky,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept 12, 1999, p. G6.

            Huntington, Richard. “Exploring the sights created in science.”

Johnson, Ken. Review, The New York Times, September 17, 1999.

            O’Hara, Cate. “Brooklyn Makeover: Young artists showcased in new CAC show,” City Beat, September 9-15, 1999. p. 53. 

            Stein, Jerry. “New Exhibit is Turned Inside Out,” The Cincinnati Post, Sept 17, 1999. p. 4C.

1998     Larsen, E. Tage. “A Questionable Solidarity,” Zingmagazine, Winter 1998.

            “Take the L Train: Williamsburg Walkabout,” NY Arts magazine, February/March 1998, (reproduction).

            Tirado, Michelle. “Karen Arm: Paintings and Drawings,” Art Papers, May/June 1998, vol. 22, issue 3, p. 50.  (reproduction)            

1997     Arning, Bill. “Brooklyn in the House,” The Village Voice, August 1997.

1996     Gargiulo, Gerald J. “Art Byte,” The Southampton Independent, August 14, 1996.

            Howe, Jeff. Material Madness, exhibition catalog from the Work Space.