Red Door series - 2011 - oil on vellum - Grid 120" x 120" Current Exhibition, Gallery One, www.galleryonect.com, Old Saybrook, CT, Aug 14 - October 14 Prosperity - 2011 - oil on vellum - 20" x 20" from the Red Door series Enchanted - 2011 - oil on vellum - 20" x 20" from the Red Door series Illuminated Plane series - 2011 - oil on canvas - 25 feet group shot Green and Magenta - 2011 - oil on canvas - 6" x 12" and 24" x 36" from the Illuminated Plane series Illuminated Plane series - 2011 - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" Studio Red - 2011 - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" from the Illuminated Plane series Magenta - 2011 - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" from the series the Illuminated Plane Blue Green - 2011 - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" from the Illuminated Plane series Red Green - 2011 - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" from the Illuminated Plane series

Artist Bio
Karen Bartone holds an MFA in Painting from Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, a BFA in Painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT and a BA in Psychology from Johnson State College, Johnson, VT. She is the recipient of many honors and awards, including an Art Grant from WCSU for graduate summer studies, an Art Grant from WCSU for a purchase award in painting, two Fellowship Awards to the Vermont Studio Center as well as a Full Scholarship Award to the Chautauqua Institute School of Art in New York. She has a national exhibition record that spans 10 years. She has done solo exhibits with the Jane Goodall Institute for a national teach-in, The North East Sustainable Energy Association at the Searsport World Trade Center in Boston, and WCSU invited her to loan significant works to the University. Her work is also in the private collection of WCSU. Recently, Ms. Bartone attended a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, was selected by Real Art Ways for the 2010 Step Up Slide Slam and awarded Honorable Mention in painting from The Connecticut Women Artists. Additionally, Ms. Bartone is a part time Professor of Art in the Visual Arts Department at Eastern Connecticut State University where she teaches Two-Dimensional Design Elements, Studio Art Introduction, and Drawing I.

for cv: www.karenbartone.com

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About This Work

These two series, The Red Door and The Illuminated Plane, point to a connection between representation art and non-objective abstraction. Bartone paints the Illuminated Planes of the everyday place to reveal how the color of light transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Thing that we pass by daily become radiant fields of color that persist in her memory. The poetry of light on these planes sometimes revel symbols. Here, symbols of luck, prosperity, spirituality and strength are exposed along with a reminder of the home, which says something about the domestic.

In addition, the perceptual psychology of color is evoked and questions are raised. How do we experience hue? Does hue reflect or influence our mood? What do individual hues mean to each of us? Viewers are offered an opportunity to bask in the vibration of pure fields of hue and consider the influence of color on their perception.