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CHICAGO

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  KAREN HALT

Karen Halt was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Ohio State University. Halt began painting in 1968 without formal training. Her subject matter included still life, wild life and portraiture. In the nineteen eighties her compositions took a gigantic leap from predictable reality into more imaginative settings.

Halt’s posing of people and animals in unexpected, unplanned dimensions works to weave its way into our lives and free us of factual experiences. Her underlying theme is reconciliation that seeks to heal the gap between what is natural and that which is civilized.

Karen Halt has now imagined and created a new direction in her artistic role. This includes her unusual textile sculptures which are sewn by hand, painted, and finally dipped in bees wax and resin to emerge as hardened free-standing forms. Her wardrobe of sculptures is an exciting “third dimension” that echoes her acrylic paintings.

 

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Detail base

"Ladder Dress"

Colored pencil, graphite and embroidery on Muslin dipped in beeswax, with bronze stand

29" x 19" x 8" (measurements do not include bronze stand)

Detail dress

 

 

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Detail bronze base that comes with piece

"Cocoons Embrace"

Graphite drawings  and embroidery on silk dipped in beeswax, beaded and embroidered dyed silk collar, with bronze stand

22" x 27" x 11" (measurements do not include bronze stand)

 

 

 

 

 

Detail dress

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Detail

"Feathered, Flowered Forkfuls" (sculpture)

Stenciled and inkjet printed cotton of original graphite sketches, dipped in beeswax, with bronze stand

30" x 18" x 11" (measurements do not include bronze stand)

 

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" Feathered, Flowered Forkfuls" (painting)

Acrylic on board

20" x 24"

Ref. # M0810183

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"Four Sisters" (sculpture)

Hand painted cotton dipped in beeswax

each figure 20" x 6" x 5"

Ref. # M0409181

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"Three Sisters" (painting)

Acrylic on board

18" x 24"

Ref. # M0810182

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"Odalisque"

Acrylic on board

23 1/2" x 35 1/2"

Ref. # M0810216

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"The Piece (Peace) of Home" , (Sculpture)

 Dress

Hand sewn, acrylic painted fabrics dipped in  beeswax & Resin

20" x 15" x 17"

Ref. # M0410206

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"Walnuts at the English Room"

Acrylic  on board

20" x 28"

Ref. # M0806119

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"The Iris Dressing Tent"

Hand Painted Cotton dipped in beeswax & resin

on acrylic base

21" x 16" x 16"

Ref. # M0707151

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"In a Nut Shell"

Acrylic on masonite

20" x 24"

Ref. # M0704075

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"In a Nut Shell"

Hand sewn, acrylic painted fabrics dipped in  beeswax & Resin, with bronze stand

28" x 11" x 11" (measurements do not include bronze stand)

Ref. # M0710249

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Taking Nourishment (painting)

acrylic on board

18" x 24 "

Ref. # M0610176

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"Taking Nourishment"

Painted silk

Mounted on free standing metal base

36 " x 16 "

Ref. # M0608153

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Rabbit Collar with torso

cotton, paint, beeswax and embroidery

27 1/2 "  x 15" x 8"

Ref # M0610170

 

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Grasshopper Collar w/waxed torso

cotton, paint, beeswax and embroidery

26 1/2 " x 15 1/2 "x 7"

Ref # M0610171

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Frog Collar w/waxed torso

cotton, paint, beeswax and embroidery

28" x 11" x 8"

Ref. # M0610169

 

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"The Good Morning Dove"

acrylic on board

20" x 24"

Ref. # M0610175

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"Tea at the Honshu Springs",

Acrylic on board

18" x 24"

Ref. # M0403083

 

"Tea at the Honshu Springs",

56" x 23"

(scarf depicted in the painting above. It is included as part of the piece)

Rayon Blend

Hand painted, discharge-printed

 

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"Kingfisher's Box"

Acrylic on board

24" x 12"

Ref. # M0509216

 

 

"Bird Box for a Canadian Goose"

Acrylic on board

24" x 12"

Ref. # M0509217 

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"Box, Canadian Goose", (Sculpture)

Hand sewn, acrylic painted fabrics dipped in  beeswax & Resin

16" x 5" x 5"

Ref. # M0510235

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"A Gown by da Vinci" , (Sculpture)

21 1/2" X 14" X 14"

Hand sewn, acrylic painted fabrics dipped in  beeswax & Resin

Ref. # M0406156

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"Albrecht's Camp",

18" x 24"

Acrylic on board

Ref. # M0404091

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"Fabric of Life",

30" x 24"

Acrylic on board

The fabric depicted in this painting is a hand-made silk  runner created by the artist 

and it will be included as part of the painting.  

Ref. # M0309209

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"Edward Hopper's Blue Jay" ,

Acrylic on board

13 1/2" x 20 "

Ref. # M0210248

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"When Dreams Are Bigger Than You Are"

Acrylic on masonite

24 " x 20 "

Ref. # M0012392

 

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