Karen Joubert Cordier

Karen Joubert Cordier (born 29 August 1954) is a French-American artist born in Neuilly-sur-Seine(France).

Early life
Joubert Cordier's father was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique navy captain and her mother was a model. Joubert Cordier had opportunities to explore the world and meet many legendary people, including Coco Chanel, Charlie Chaplin, and Leopold, King of Belgium.

Career
Upon completion of her studies at the Academy Charpentier in Paris, she was counseled by a famous art dealer, Daniel Cordier. Her first show was at the Gallery Beaubourg in Paris, and was followed by a permanent exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Museum.

She has received praise from art critic Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Jean-Pierre Thébault, Consul General of France in Hong Kong and Macao, and Henrietta Tsui, the Director of Galerie Ora-Ora.

Joubert Cordier has embraced the surrealist and disturbing side of Dalí, the colours of Le Douanier Rousseau, the technique of Arcimboldo and the modernity of Robert Combas.

Style
Her art draws on such movements as expressionism, fauvism, pointillism, postmodernism, and surrealism. She deals with themes of travel, nature, and plant life.

Joubert Cordier tends to use the entirety of her canvases, filling them with detail.

Collections
Le Dechainement de Vegetal (translation: the unbridled vegetation) is an accumulation of details of flowers and plants exploded by the use of fluorescent colours and freedom of composition.

Her L'Exotism series features canvases full of plants and animals.

La Narrative Figurative
More recently, Joubert Cordier's paintings are inspired by her travels. Being the daughter of the Chief Purser of the liner France, she is widely traveled and has crossed the Atlantic Ocean 49 times. Each of her journeys is a "true source of inspiration". Her work starts on a point where she sketches cartoonlike images of days that pass by. She completes these in her workshop where her brushes will interpret all the knowledge she had assimilated throughout her travelling, transporting the eye into different worlds. The collection could be subdivided into two genres:

French Prestige
This series draws on Joubert Cordier's travels as a child. These encounters marked a unique impression on her and have reinforced a unique vision in her illustrative work. Joubert Cordier translated her experiences with collage of memories, from glamorous Europe to the wave of Pop art and icons of the time.

Romantic Rivera
This title greets the arrival of English and American residents in search of a quiet place at the beginning of the last century. It is the Golden age of "Cote d'Azure" that Joubert Cordier feels. She expresses this feeling in colours of the quiet blue of the sea, the intense and warm red of the sun and especially by Sienna dust which stresses the romantic, nostalgic and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of these subjects in black and white. In these peculiar settings, she introduces people who are the stars in business, movies, arts and novels.

Pop
Joubert Cordier's Pop collection is a reminiscence of the comic strips of the childhood days, the American dream, and the chewing gum societies. From economic intelligence to Andy Warhol's Marilyn, from Mickey Mouse to Superman, from Norman Rockwell to Bill Gates, her world is colourful in pure pop art tradition.

Collectors
Joubert Cordier's works are collected by the Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris, which houses the largest collection of modern art in Europe. Her works are also collected by many others, including former French Prime Minister Jean-Francois Girard, entertainer Elton John and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Many of her paintings are now collected and showcased in national museums, including the Art Modern Museum in Toulouse, and are in the hands of international collectors.

Exhibitions
2010
 * Shanghai "My City Our Dreams" Gala Auction, Shanghai, China; 5 May
 * Lifeline Express "The Beauty of Nature" Charity Painting Exhibition, Pacific Place, Hong Kong; 16 - 19 Apr
 * Christine Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2009
 * Alife Fresco 7th Anniversary, Tokyo; 28 August


 * Galarie Marie Ricoo, Calvi; 11 – 30 April
 * Les désordres du plaisir, Musée des abattoirs, Art Moden Museum, Toulouse (new donation Daniel Cordier); 24 Jan – 19 April

2008
 * Hong Kong International Arts and Antiques Fair, Hong Kong
 * Fresco on wall: CERAM Business School, Sophia Antipolis
 * Museum of Perfume, Grasse
 * Gallery Take 121, Nashville, USA
 * Happy Art Gallery and Rotshield Bank, Cannes; 8 Oct
 * Galerie Geraldine Zberro, Paris
 * Galerie Onega, Paris
 * Chicago Sister cities international, Chicago, USA; 8 Oct

2007
 * Galerie Pelissier, Nice
 * Grand Hotel St. Jean cap, Ferrat
 * Galerie de l’eveche, Vence

2006
 * Raffles Museum, Singapore
 * Ode to Art Gallery, Singapore
 * Negresco Hotel, Nice
 * Kieba Gallery, Vence
 * Karement Karen College Nikide, St Phalle

2005
 * Dream and Passion, Singapore
 * French Affair with Singapore, Singapore
 * Villa Durazzo, Santa Margarita, Italy
 * Les Abattoirs, Art Modern Museum, Toulouse
 * Beaubourg Gallery, Vence
 * Negresco Hotel, Nice
 * Château Ste Roseline, Draguignan
 * Cultural Center, Roquefort les pins

2004
 * Business Center, Nice Airport
 * Galerie Loumani, Valbonne

2003
 * La Verand’anne, Gstaad, Switzerland
 * Referencing at Georges Pompidou Library
 * Fifth Gallery, Paris
 * Galerie de l’eveche, Vence
 * SNCP Champs Elysees, Paris

2002
 * Cultural Center, Roquefort les pins
 * L’Abbaye, La Colle sur Loup
 * Mas d’Artigny, Vence

2001
 * Gallery Aurora (William), Shanghai, China
 * Navy Museum, Le Havre
 * Mas d’Artigny, Vence
 * Negresco Hotel, Nice
 * Tatina Tournemine Gallery, Paris
 * Beaubourg Gallery, Vence

2000
 * Chateau des fleurs, Marianne and Pierre Nahon, Vence
 * L’Ile en terre Gallery, Vence

1991 - 1999
 * 99: L’Abbaye, La Colle sur Loup
 * 98: Chateau Str Roseline, Draguignan
 * 98: Consulat du Canada, Chicago, USA
 * 96: New Eastside Art Works, Chicago, USA
 * 96: Nicole Gallery, Chicago, USA
 * 94: Majestic Hotel, Cannes

1980 - 1990
 * 89: Art Honction Nahon, Nice
 * 88: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
 * 87: Galerie Beaubourg, Paris
 * 86: Henry Clew Foundation, Mandelieu

Permanent exhibitions
 * Les Abattoirs, Art Modern Museum, Toulouse
 * Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris
 * Galerie Onega, Paris
 * Navy Museum, Le Havre
 * Galerie Marie Ricco, Calvi
 * Happy Art Galerie, Cannes
 * Ode de Art Gallery, Singapore

Products
Karen x Feria Design Closet has produced a line of products, including perfume (in collaboration with Givenchy), handbags, porches, keychains and T-shirts.