Large-scale monochromatic painting in shades of blue and white depicting an abstracted figural form with gestural marks, layered textures, and linear patterns created through stenciling and paint transfer techniques. The composition features dynamic, intersecting lines and organic shapes that create visual tension across the canvas surface.

Paintings

Kika Karadi

6/2/2023 – 7/1/2023

Haw Contemporary is pleased to host a solo exhibition with Kika Karadi.  A painter, Karadi makes large-scale, monochromatic, time-based works in which she applies stencils, masking tape, and oil-based ink to glass, effaces and rearranges the paint, then transfers it to canvas. Karadi’s process is visceral rather than calculated, likened by the artist to “drawing with a stick in the dirt.”

Karadi was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1975 and received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her work has been exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale and the 2nd Prague Biennale. Solo exhibitions include: Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, and the Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (both 2014); Process Museum, Ventana Gallery, Oro Valley, AZ (2013); New Paintings, the Bowery Basement Annex, New York, NY (2012); Dark Matter, AMFA Gallery, New York, NY (2011); and Observing Naked Singularities, Vibrational Optics and the Paradigm of a Quantum Life, Galleria Rubin, Milan, Italy (2009). Karadi completed a studio residency at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX in 2017.

Exhibition Images ()

  • Large-scale monochromatic painting in blue and white featuring an abstract composition of gestural marks, layered textures, and linear elements. The work demonstrates a visceral, process-based approach with areas of densely hatched marks and organic forms that create depth and movement across the canvas.
  • A viewer stands before a large-scale canvas dominated by bold red gestural forms and organic shapes against a white background. The composition features fluid, interconnected curves and abstract silhouettes created through an energetic, visceral painting technique.
  • Large-scale monochromatic painting on canvas featuring gestural abstract marks, layered textures, and organic forms rendered in deep blue and white tones. The composition displays expressive brushwork and scraped surfaces creating a sense of depth and movement across the vertical canvas.
Large-scale monochromatic painting in shades of blue and white depicting an abstracted figural form with gestural marks, layered textures, and linear patterns created through stenciling and paint transfer techniques. The composition features dynamic, intersecting lines and organic shapes that create visual tension across the canvas surface.

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