Traveling With Gulliver - City Lights - Washington City Paper
Ok - you know what? This is a REALLY OLD thing - A City Light - a mini-bit from the Washington City Paper that does not mention my name - but completely describes my work. In fact this time was the third time that my work was decribed in detail, but my name not mentioned.
So here I am finished with graduate school and as far as I can tell, still have not had anything critical said about my work - even though these critics that go to see art CLEARLY remember my work. Very strange indeed.
Really just want to put this out there as a time capsule of sorts. I'll have to see if I can find the other two times to show you.
About Me
- Karen Joan Topping
- is an emerging artist working in multi-media living in Washington DC. With an MFA from The University Of The Arts and a BFA from American University, she has shown her work in many regional group exhibitions. For Karen Joan Topping, things such as toys and candy are the tools and materials for the making of art. She creates installations, sculptures and video projections engaging in a spirit of play and exploration that are inquiries into attention, emotion and judgment as much as they are investigations of aesthetic practices. By using seductive and nostalgic objects from childhood, she examines how fantasy, memory, hope and anxiety can be explored in space and time as well as symbol and form.