KAREN K. LEWIS
Biography
Post Office Box1052 • Ojai, CA 93023 • (805) 646-8877 • fax (805) 646-5929
Email: Lewisojai@mac.com • Website: www.KarenKLewis.com
Karen K. Lewis is primarily a studio painter who works in oils, on a large scale. But, upon moving to Ojai in 1990, she fell in love with the landscape and joined the throng of local plein air painters. She now divides her time between plein air painting, studio painting and printmaking.
One of her large scale oil paintings, inspired by a London garden scene, is now in the Ventura County Museum of History & Art’s collection, via a gift of the Bank of A. Levy. In 1995, she exhibited a series of ‘Chair’ paintings at the Ventura County Government Center entitled “Please be Seated.” She has exhibited her prints at a recent Government Center printmaking show, as well as with the Santa Barbara Printmakers’ yearly shows, and she shows annually with the Ojai Studio Artists.
On the October, 2004, Ojai Studio Artists Tour, Lewis offered selections from her fifty years of making art. She showed examples of her student work created at UCLA, and of her continuing years of study with Jacob Kainen in Washington DC, followed with the paintings that were created in New York as she studied for her MFA at Lehman College in the Bronx, and selections from her solo exhibitions during the 1980’s at the Pindar Gallery in SoHo, NYC.
While living in New York, she spent fifteen years in art education, both as a high school art teacher, and as an adjunct instructor for Arts Education at the College of New Rochelle.
Upon her return to California, in addition to painting the California landscape, she has continued her own art educational journey by occasionally indulging herself with cutting-edge printmaking workshops in Santa Fe, Lucca and Florence, Italy, and in Santa Barbara!
Her work can be viewed on line at her website, www.karenklewis.com or by appointment, at her Ojai Studio (805) 646-8877.
