Karen Safer – Palm or pine apple

Description

Artist Statement

Karen Safer Condensed Statement:

I’ve always been an artist. I embrace the nature world and man-made as well. I am influenced by everything from the ancients to Cindy Sherman and while I embrace color, I revere black and white. I am a student of the universe, history, art, architecture, music, literature and all the arts.
I got a camera and some crayons as a kid,
journeyed along a path in life – far from what I’d expected,
moved from youth to middle age,
did some work, had some fun, got high, got low,
and just continue doing it – never tiring of the next visual surprise.
Life is still a mystery, after all. – kjs
Motos: “A photographer has the whole world big or small to capture.” kj safer
And wherever I am in the world, is my favorite place!! kj safer

Artist Biography

Karen Safer is an international, award-winning California photographic artist, writer and poet. As a native Angelino, she was given a camera and crayons at 3 and exposed to dominant California motifs: light, palm trees, the ocean, music and vernacular architecture that helped define and influence her left-handed aesthetic. Fortunate to begin a life of travel as a pre-teen, it shaped her love of the exotic, accidental and
unusual that jiggled the lens/frame of her eye; subsequently she has traveled and photographed in over 230 countries and territories. She was influenced by her dad who developed black & white photos in their back washroom/turned darkroom and by her mother’s thirst for knowledge and travel. She has a master’s
degree in art, a career in design and architecture and is principle of ArtFocus International. She’s been in 12 solo shows, exhibited in over 500+ international/national venues, received over 410+ awards, is in
private collections, featured in over 100 publications including Who’s Who In Professional Women and is a self-described “romantic soul” with intellectual cravings living in a digital world.
Influenced by everything, she has been honored with Paris International Street Photography Awards 2024,ReFocus and Exposure One B&W Awards, National Photographic Society Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron FotoNostrum Awards, B&W Spider Awards, Botticelli International Prize (Florence), International COLOR
awards; featured in Dodho, Docu, LENS, Women United, Spotlight, ArtTour and Artist Talk Magazine, The Holy Art, etc.; and continues exhibiting in Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, Barcelona, Paris, London,
Glasgow, Rome, Berlin, Basel, Dubai, Venice, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, etc. from California to toNY, member of IAA-USA, LA Art Association, LA Center for Photography, etc.