Karen Tepaz
SOFT BLOOM
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 8, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday, December 8, 2018 - Sunday, January 20, 2019
286 Stanhope Street, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11237
SARDINE is pleased to present SOFT BLOOM, a solo exhibition by Karen Tepaz. The show opens with a reception on Saturday, December 8, 2018, from 6 to 9 pm and will be up through Sunday, January 20, 2019. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition.
In SOFT BLOOM, Tepaz continues her investigation of form and material while experimenting with the size and the presentation of her work. She depicts symbols and forms with no conclusive structure; only an immediate moment dissected and rearranged. Tepaz’s balance of surface treatment and color palette are in correlation with her influences of flowers, language, the body and fluid sounds. Bold curved edges cut through the space around them activating the space they inhabit, petal like shapes open like a gaping mouth or lips where the energy and sound the work creates flows in and out of itself. Both the work and the viewer are free to shift and transform perspectives at each angle, each form unfolds naturally, providing space and surroundings for mindful contemplation.
Karen Tepaz is interested in the expressive potential of objects blending the use of color, form and material in a compositional lexicon. Tepaz received her M.F.A in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art and a B.F.A in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at CACTTUS gallery (Long Beach, CA), and group shows at The Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC (NY, NY), The Gallery ATLAS (Newburgh, NY) The Whitney Houston Biennial (NY, NY) BOMB POP-UP (Brooklyn, NY), GlenLily Grounds (Newburgh, NY) Basement Projects (Santa Ana, CA) among others. In 2018 Tepaz co-curated “Flat Touch” and “In Between the Lines” in Steuben Gallery at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY). She is the recipient of the Art Farm Nebraska Residency, and this spring she was invited to exhibit new work at Thomas Hunter Project Space, at Hunter College (NY, NY). Tepaz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
SARDINE is located on the ground floor of 286 Stanhope Street between Wyckoff and Irving Avenues in Bushwick, Brooklyn, one block from the Dekalb L train and near the Knickerbocker M. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6 pm when a show is in progress or by appointment. For more information, please visit sardinebk.com. Contact: Lacey Fekishazy at 914.805.1974 or sardinebk@gmail.com.
