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Karen Kitchel Biography
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Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Art, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Place in Time; Contemporary Views of the Landscape, group exhibit, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (publication)
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2007
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Modern and Contemporary Landscapes, group exhibit, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2007
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The Los Angeles Art Show, Forum Gallery, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
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2007
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30 x 30, group exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
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2007
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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)
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2007
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The Best of the West, group exhibit, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
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2006
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On the Wall: Drawing, group exhibit, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
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2006
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Shifting Terrain, group exhibit, Oxford Hotel, Denver, CO
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2006
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Chicago Art Fair, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT and New York, NY
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2006
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NYC Affordable Art Fair, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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The Woods, group exhibit, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Ambassador's Residence, Almaty, Khazakstan (2005-2007)
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2004
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East Meets West, solo exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
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2004
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Repeat Offenders; Serial Works by Colorado Artists, Singer Gallery, Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO
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2003
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Women on Painting, group exhibit, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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Divining: Art and Water in the West, group exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
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2003
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Train Track Walk, solo exhibit, The Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (publication)
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2002
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Train Track Walk, solo exhibit, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (publication)
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2002
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Success Stories: the Weed Show, solo exhibit, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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Wide Open Spaces; group exhibit, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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"Contemporary Art of the New American West 2: Wide Open Spaces" Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York
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2000
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"The West: New Ways / Old Visions" Metro Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO
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2000
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"Memory and Change: Visions of the American West" Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO (catalogue)
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2000
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"Crowded Parry" Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY; and The Nicolaysen Museum and Discovery Center
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2000
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"Karen Kitchel: The American Landscape" Palm Springs Desert Museum, Parlm Springs, CA
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1999
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"The Sum of Parts: Composite Paintings" Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO
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1999
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"Broadcast" Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Eagle Rock, CA
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1998
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"The Vault Series: Artists Respond to Audubon" New Bedford Museum, New Bedford, MA
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1998
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"Paradise Lost: Redefining the Colorado Landscape" Colorado Mountain College Gallery, Glenwood Springs, CO; and University of Colorado Gallery, Boulder, CO
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1997
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"The Surreal West" Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO
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1997
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"Geography and Spirit; Nature's Imprint on the Soul" Sun Valley, ID (catalogue)
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1997
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"Holiday Exhibition of Gallery Artists" Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1997
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"Home, Home on the Range" Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
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1996
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"Home, Home on the Range; not the same old song" Western Heritage Center, Billings, MT
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1996
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"New Paintings" Liberty Art Center, Chester, MT
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1996
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"Activities in the Landscape" Blue Heron Art Center, Vashon Island, WA
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1995
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"Current Work" Machine Head, Venice, CA
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1995
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"Homilies" Beall Park Art Center
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1993
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"Studies for a New Iconography: Drawings in Progress" McCormick Gallery, Midland, TX
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1993
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"Regarding Location: New Landscape Paintings" Joyce Petter Gallery, Douglas, MI
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1992
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"Regional Confrontations" Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| Literature |
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2001
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Pricer, Jaimie Lee; "Painting America" ; The Palm Springs Desert Sun
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2000
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Bradey, Jeff; "Old West, New West" , illus., Denver Post p. 5F
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2000
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Paglia, Michael; "Season of the West" , Westword, p.59
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2000
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McConnell, Gordon; "Crowded Prairie - Four Painters" ; catalogue essay, Ucross Foundation and the Nicolaysen Museum and Discovery Center
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2000
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"Contemporary Realism Collection, Vol. 1" ; catalogue, Denver Art Museum
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2000
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Knaff, Deborah; "Western Views" ; Riverside Press Enterprise
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1998
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"Montana Defined by Images" , 22 minute video, produced by Center for the Rocky Mountain West and River City Media
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1998
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Wadsworth, Susan; "The Audubon Legacy and Vault Series: Birds" ; Art New England; p.43
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1997
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Chandler, Mary Voelz; "Surreal Statements About the West" , illus., Rocky Mountain News, Spotlight, p.14D
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1996
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Bradley, Carol; "A New Breed of Artists Depicts Montana - Cyanide Leach Fields and All" , illus., High Country News pp. 6, 7
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