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Karen Carson (born 1943) is an American artist based in Los Angeles and Monatana.

Life
Karen Carson was born in Corvallis, Oregon. In 1996 she received her bachelor's degree from The University of Oregon, Eugene. In 1971 she received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since then she has spent most of her career in Los Angeles, working in her Venice Beach studio or teaching at many of Southern California's college or universities. These included The University of California, Los Angeles, Otis College of Art and Design, Art Center College of Design, University of California, Irvine as well as The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 1997 she met and later married George Wanlass an Idaho rancher and art collector. 1999, as a tenured professor, she retired from teaching  at The University of California, Santa Barbara and since splits her time between Los Angeles and Big Timber, Montana

Work
"I rarely make artist statements because they tie me to something that will become obsolete."[1]

artwork occupies spaces within and between the practices of abstract painting and architecture; following a trajectory describing the slow and messy dissolution of the structural integrity of the house and home and the psychological effects of such failures. Appel's painted surfaces vacillate between approximations of architectural surfaces and pure paint forming a complex matrix of abstract form. His current paintings are large abstractions painted on large scale printed photographs of Appel's own taking.

Since 1979 Carson has been 23 show with Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.

She has been in group exhibitions at

1972 "The Wall Object," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA. 1976 "Contemporary Masters," Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA. "Artists, West L.A.," Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica. 1983 "The First Show," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, catalogue. 1987 "The Years of Passage: 1969-1975," Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA. 1991 "Individual Realities," Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo and Tsukashin Hall, Osaka, Japan. 1992 "LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, catalogue. "L.A. Next," curated by Annette Carlozzi, Contemporary Arts Council, New Orleans. 1994 "Love in the Ruins," curated by Noriko Gamblin, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, catalogue. "Pen and Ink," curated by Michael Darling, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara. "From L.A. With Love," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris. 1999 "Radical Past: Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-74," Norton Simon Museum, Armory Center for the Arts, and Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. 2001 “The Magic Hour: Die Konvergenz Von Kunst und Las Vegas,” curated by Alex Farquharson, Neue Galerie at the Künstlerhaus, Burgring, Graz, Austria. 2002 “Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000,” curated by Diana Fuller, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. 2004 “Beyond Geometry,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, catalogue, curated by Lynn Zelevansky. 2009 “Is This The Real Life?” Galerie Califia, Horazdovice, Czech Republic, curated by Phyllis Green. 2011 “Under the Big Black Sun,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (catalog). 2014 “The Avant-Garde Collection,” OCMA, Newport Beach, CA

Selected Awards

 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Painting Fellowship (1981)
 * National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1985)
 * The J. Paul Getty Trust Fellowship administered by the California Community Foundation (1994)
 * Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara (1996)

Selected Collections

 * Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
 * Museum of Contemporary Art, California
 * Orange County Museum of Art, California
 * San Jose Museum of Art, California
 * Pomona College Museum of Art