BA, Philosophy  and Art History, Duquesne University, 1990.  Associate's Degree, Computer Animation and Multimedia, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, 1995.  Studied under the tutelage of many well-known Pittsburgh artists, most notably:  William DeBernardi, Pat Barefoot, Ron Donoughe, Linda Wallen, Robert Robinson, Elizabeth Castonguay and Patrick Daugherty.  Multiple courses in Figure Drawing and Painting, Pastel Painting, Landscape Painting and Abstract Art at both Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh and The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.  Nine years experience as an Arts Administrator, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Private instructor in Drawing and Cartooning, and Painting for children of all ages.  Member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists.  Exhibits locally.  Work included in many private collections.

 

Kara is a visually impaired expressionist painter who primarily works in an abstract style.  Her favored media are acrylics, charcoal, ink and pastel, as well as textural elements such as sand, pumice and wax.  What is most important to her in her work is examining the  meditative aspect of art.  Kara is intrigued by how the non-physical qualities of art, such as beauty and light, arise from the physical act of painting or mark-making.  Kara uses an additive and subtractive technique of painting where she employs a cyclical process of layering and removing paint.  It is through this process that the artist expresses herself.  It is as if the act of painting is the mantra and the resulting painting is the meditation.  

 

Commissions available upon request.

 

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