“At times, your emotions might be conflicted by the outside world, and what is happening around you, but the heart and the mind are always intimately connected.”
— KAREN BLACK
Karen Black investigates the complexity of self and human interaction. Figures, self-portraits, monsters, goddesses, asanas, angels and demons make their way onto her canvases, appearing both familiar and strange. In the act of painting, Black’s abstractions explore various emotions while also dismantling hierarchical social dynamics.
Ahead of the Sydney-based artist’s showing at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands and Monash University Museum of
