Karen Kitchel (American, born )

Timeline

1979
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Art, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1982
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California

Exhibitions

2008
Place in Time; Contemporary Views of the Landscape, group exhibit, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (publication)
2007
Modern and Contemporary Landscapes, group exhibit, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
The Los Angeles Art Show, Forum Gallery, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
2007
30 x 30, group exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2007
Masterpieces of Colorado Landscape, group exhibit, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, travels to: Center for Southwest Studies, Durango, CO; Fort Morgan Museum, Fort Morgan, CO; Freemont Center for the Arts, Canon City, CO; The Penrose House, Colorado Springs, CO; Denver Public Library, Denver, CO (publication)
2007
The Best of the West, group exhibit, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2006
On the Wall: Drawing, group exhibit, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2006
Shifting Terrain, group exhibit, Oxford Hotel, Denver, CO
2006
Chicago Art Fair, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT and New York, NY
2006
NYC Affordable Art Fair, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005
The Woods, group exhibit, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Ambassador's Residence, Almaty, Khazakstan (2005-2007)
2004
East Meets West, solo exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2004
Repeat Offenders; Serial Works by Colorado Artists, Singer Gallery, Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO
2003
Women on Painting, group exhibit, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Divining: Art and Water in the West, group exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2003
Train Track Walk, solo exhibit, The Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (publication)
2002
Train Track Walk, solo exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (publication)
2002
Success Stories: the Weed Show, solo exhibit, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Wide Open Spaces; group exhibit, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY
2001
"Contemporary Art of the New American West 2: Wide Open Spaces" Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York
2000
"The West: New Ways / Old Visions" Metro Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO
2000
"Memory and Change: Visions of the American West" Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO (catalogue)
2000
"Crowded Parry" Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY; and The Nicolaysen Museum and Discovery Center
2000
"Karen Kitchel: The American Landscape" Palm Springs Desert Museum, Parlm Springs, CA
1999
"The Sum of Parts: Composite Paintings" Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO
1999
"Broadcast" Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Eagle Rock, CA
1998
"The Vault Series: Artists Respond to Audubon" New Bedford Museum, New Bedford, MA
1998
"Paradise Lost: Redefining the Colorado Landscape" Colorado Mountain College Gallery, Glenwood Springs, CO; and University of Colorado Gallery, Boulder, CO
1997
"The Surreal West" Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO
1997
"Geography and Spirit; Nature's Imprint on the Soul" Sun Valley, ID (catalogue)
1997
"Holiday Exhibition of Gallery Artists" Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
"Home, Home on the Range" Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
1996
"Home, Home on the Range; not the same old song" Western Heritage Center, Billings, MT
1996
"New Paintings" Liberty Art Center, Chester, MT
1996
"Activities in the Landscape" Blue Heron Art Center, Vashon Island, WA
1995
"Current Work" Machine Head, Venice, CA
1995
"Homilies" Beall Park Art Center
1993
"Studies for a New Iconography: Drawings in Progress" McCormick Gallery, Midland, TX
1993
"Regarding Location: New Landscape Paintings" Joyce Petter Gallery, Douglas, MI
1992
"Regional Confrontations" Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Literature

2001
Pricer, Jaimie Lee; "Painting America" ; The Palm Springs Desert Sun
2000
Bradey, Jeff; "Old West, New West" , illus., Denver Post p. 5F
2000
Paglia, Michael; "Season of the West" , Westword, p.59
2000
McConnell, Gordon; "Crowded Prairie - Four Painters" ; catalogue essay, Ucross Foundation and the Nicolaysen Museum and Discovery Center
2000
"Contemporary Realism Collection, Vol. 1" ; catalogue, Denver Art Museum
2000
Knaff, Deborah; "Western Views" ; Riverside Press Enterprise
1998
"Montana Defined by Images" , 22 minute video, produced by Center for the Rocky Mountain West and River City Media
1998
Wadsworth, Susan; "The Audubon Legacy and Vault Series: Birds" ; Art New England; p.43
1997
Chandler, Mary Voelz; "Surreal Statements About the West" , illus., Rocky Mountain News, Spotlight, p.14D
1996
Bradley, Carol; "A New Breed of Artists Depicts Montana - Cyanide Leach Fields and All" , illus., High Country News pp. 6, 7