Natural Landscapes

natural landscapes
Karin Wagner Coron

January 5 - February 21, 2010

reception: Jan. 8, 2010, 6 - 9pm

Karie paints the landscape of Michigan with a special attention to the skies in this show. She has a talent for capturing the vastness of the sky and its humbling nature, noticing subtleties and bringing them to the canvas in a way that makes the viewer say, "Yes, I've felt that way when I've seen the sky."

Visitors to WSG during Karie's show will step in the gallery and stop immediately inside the door to catch their breath. Her work transports the viewer to a favorite place, physically or metaphysically. Landscape can do that.

Karie took her camera on a trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, prior to her show. She snapped photos on the way up and back, drinking in the beauty of Michigan. When she returned to her studio, she chose the photos to use as a stepping off point and brought the landscapes to life with her favorite media - oil on canvas.

This show is a great break to the cold, gray winter in Michigan. However, one of my favorite paintings is the large, square-format painting of a winter sky straight ahead, as you enter the gallery. Karie captures the subtle coloration and glow of the sky in a way that stops me in my tracks every time I enter the gallery.