Fertile Ground - Works by Karen Fenley

In July Partners is showing new artwork of Karen Fenley. She describes her work
as "an exploration of the fertile ground that keeps me connected to the earth beneath my feet. This ground can be any substance or idea that lights the spark that becomes the vision that gets a new work going." Materials collected over time, such as pressed plants from years of constant gardening, now obsolete papers and pigments, wood grain in panels along with the influence of the still life works of early modernists painters are some of the ingredients that make up her recent work. As in seventeenth century vanitas, she sees this work as a celebration of temporality and the limited time before all living things transition to become fertile ground.