Karen Suderman is an Artist who lives and works in Juneau, Alaska - United States. She continues to explore the relationship between representational and abstract languages, and to investigate the complex ways in which these languages interact in contemporary paintings. This enables her to produce paintings that viewers can easily associate with. She says that each painting is a resemblance of a natural object or scene, and the stylized presentation of each object or scene produces an image that is ultimately indefinable. She’s open to try whatever she can to help improve her artwork. The inspiration for her art lies in her innate relationship with nature. She ascertains that some images feel familiar to all viewers, and that this perception is an instinctual and primal response. Each of her pieces of art depicts a section of something she considers innate: an animal, plant, person, or piece of land.
She concentrates on the object’s texture, line, and color during the process of painting. Although inspired by the natural world, Karen invites her viewers to consider that the paintings they see are removed from the nature so that they are no longer those objects but exist as objects independent of those that inspired them. Her paintings are a resemblance of nature because it is neither a representation of the original object, nor the original object. Karen stresses that the paintings are depicted in a subjective manner and this further separates what we see of nature from what exists on canvas. Karen graduated from Southwestern University and began exhibiting her work in Austin, Texas.
