New monoprints 2024
I began a series of monoprints featuring the endangered Townsend’e big-eared bat in October 2024. More information to come!
Mullowney Printing Company, 512 NW 17th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
info@mullowneyprinting.com
503-719-5854
(image: Nocturne, (Townsend’s big-eared bat), 24 x 18 inches, monprint, Mullowney Printing Company, Portland, OR, 2024)
Kara Maria – Precious and Precarious
Episode 16 of the environmental podcast Chrysalis with John Fiege is a conversation about my endangered species paintings.
(image: Detail of Every Murmur Becomes a Wave, (gray wolf), acrylic on canvas, 46 x 56 inches, 2019, Private Collection, Pacific Grove, CA)
New lithograph 2024
It was wonderful to return to Shark’s Ink. in Lyons, CO to make another lithograph.
Here is a snapshot of the Trial Proof (TP). Print features an endangered northern leopard frog – my third print with a Colorado animal.
Shark’s Ink., 550 Blue Mountain Road, Lyons, CO 80540
303-823-9190
(image: Inside the Blue Sky (northern leopard frog), color lithograph, 22 x 27.5 inches, 2024, edition of 20, Shark’s Ink., Lyons, CO)
Prints & Drawings department acquisitions
I’m thrilled to have both my 2022 and 2023 lithographs from Shark’s Ink. added to MFAH’s permanent collection.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
713-639-7300
(image: Under Simple Stars, (Great Basin silverspot butterfly), 30 x 22 inches, color lithograph, 2023, Shark’s Ink., Lyons, CO)
Permanent Collection Acquisition
My 2010 painting Safari was added to the permanent collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
310-277-5321
tours@weismanfoundation.org
(image: Safari, 18 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2010)
Artist Interview: In Conversation with Kara Maria
July 9, 2024 – December 31, 2025
Article with images and text about me and my endangered species series.
Mark Moore Fine Art, on ARTSY, Los Angeles, CA
310-266-2283
info@markmoorefineart.com
(image: Detail of Stargazer, (Great Basin silverspot butterfly), 40 x 32 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2024)
A short interview titled Meet Kara Maria – Artist is available on ShoutoutLA as part of The Decision Makers Series: Inspiration.
Published January 15, 2024, Los Angeles, CA.
(image: Kara Maria, 2022, photo courtesy of de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA)
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
January 28 – June 10, 2022
• squarecylinder.com, “Jaimie Baron on Kara Maria”, by Jaimie Baron, April 16, 2022
• The Santa Clara, “Kara Maria’s Abstract World of Endangered Animals”, by Matthew Lallas, February 4, 2022
• metroactive, “Kara Maria at De Saisset Museum”, by Grace Stetson, January 26, 2022
(image: installation view, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, 2022)
“The Nature Conundrum”
by David M. Roth, June 2, 2021 on Squarecyliner.com
Review of recent solo exhibition Regarding Extinction at Anglim/Trimble.
“…hard-hitting…and most relevant.”
(image: Installation view, Regarding Extinction at Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, 2021)
Le Galeriste offers face masks, t-shirts, tote bags, leggings, and more, featuring images from my paintings.
All products made in Montréal, QC, Canada
www.legaleriste.com/kara.maria
(image: me wearing Cloud Nine face mask, scarf, and dress from Le Galeriste)
The Billboard Creative is a non-profit organization that turns billboards into public art sites. An image of my painting Kaleidoscope Eyes was featured on a 12 x 24 foot billboard at North Fairfax Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA from February to March, 2020.
(image: billboard installed in West Hollywood, CA, 2020 (Kaleidoscope Eyes, (green sea turtle), 2017, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas))