After being gone from Erie for nearly 40 years, I am returning at the invitation of Glass Growers Gallery to present a collection of 30 abstracts entitled ‘invitation to shift’.
On display January and February will be a collection of my abstract paintings with my haiku.
Show ends February 18, 2020
To visit the gallery and make purchase online ~ Link to Glass Growers Gallery, Erie, PA
‘invitation to shift’
Artist statement for the collection of abstract paintings
presented at Glass Growers in Erie Pennsylvania
My life began in Erie Pennsylvania. I received a BFA from Edinboro University and then moved to Washington DC. After a short career as a graphic designer, I began an advertising agency that I sold after 20 years. I was also a foster parent and worked to support small businesses in the Capitol Hill community. Post-advertising, I invented a wrist-band that monitors sun exposure with some NASA scientists, and also became a certified ‘nutritional’ cook, both of which had taken me around the world on some very interesting adventures. Currently, I teach cooking techniques and blog recipes I create that I feel will help others. I have also become steeped in visionary ideas and focused on my deep passion for creating art.
My paintings have allowed me to shift into new patterns, new dimensions, shifts in consciousness. My creative process is an unfolding of my need to change, something calling me always just outside my current frame of reference. I find it comforting whenever I am feeling out of alignment that I can paint my way into a new understanding, however it appears. Poetic words, often haiku, are used throughout my artistic expressions to deepen the experience.
I have three main collections of art that I have been working within – ‘abstract’, ‘truth’, and ‘infinity’. They combine words with art to embody a forward transformation.
Included in this show are abstract paintings and poetry from the last decade. They are my exploration of energy and light and perceiving the universe around me more comprehensively. Many of my abstracts are of people, things and places, but most are experiences in the energy of color, pattern and shape. Their titles reflect their deeper energetic messages. Most are in acrylic with mixed media and monotype, mounted to wooden cradleboards.
My art is an invitation, a fearless untethering to the past, allowing a gentle shift into a higher vibration of energy both individually and collectively. We are not alone, the future is light.
These paintings and poetic words are my ‘invitation to shift’.
~ Karin Edgett
female study of a female form~intimate~divine~maternal
haiku, acrylic and mixed media on paper mounted to wooden cradle board, archival finish / 42x18x2 / 2016. One of 30 works that will be shown at Glass Growers Gallery in Erie, PA
view of Glass Growers Gallery, Erie PA Art from ‘invitation to shift’ Karin Edgett
Show feature in the Erie Times News