Julie Karabenick: Recent Paintings

September 7 - October 4, 2007

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Julie Karabenick is an abstract painter who has been exhibiting for almost twenty years. Her work explores complex relations of color and form in a geometric idiom. Critic Lilly Wei writes: “Julie Karabenick takes the constructivist grid and explodes it … [giving] a new spin to dynamic equilibrium.”

Pursuant to her longstanding interest in geometric form in artistic expression, Karabenick has curated exhibitions focusing on this genre in New York City and Philadelphia. She is also the co-founder and editor of an online scholarly resource and international forum called Geoform, which features abstract geometric art from around the world and in-depth artist interviews.

Prior to her career in art, Karabenick received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Karabenick says of her work: “My paintings are abstract and resolutely geometric. In my ongoing ‘Composition Series,’ I limit myself to squares and rectangles of flat, uninflected color. Each shape arises from an implicit, underlying grid of small, same-sized squares. Thus a grid governs the space, making all forms and intervals proportionally related to one another. From these stable beginnings, I develop compositions that are asymmetrical and dynamically balanced. Variations and contrasts in color and shape all but obliterate evidence of the grid. Stability is challenged as intricate and changing networks of color and shape are discovered and vie for the viewer’s attention. A precarious order prevails, but its rules remain elusive.”

For further information, see: www.karabenick-art.net