Ladies Who Lunch - Ava by Carolyn Kramer

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Carolyn Kramer
Ladies Who Lunch - Ava
Acrylic & Mixed Media
Framed: 27 x 34 x 1 in (68.58 x 86.36 x 2.54 cm)
Signature: Carolyn Kramer signed on front- faint, signed on back
$1,500

"Ava," a feminine expressive statement, is illustrated as an ancient manuscript. Painted directly onto heavy watercolor paper, resembling gold edged, antiquated parchment.

Decorative elements are expressed throughout as layers of vivid colors, borders within borders and complex patterns. Along with the portrait of Ava, is a dreamy ghostlike image smiling down on her.

Lace, net and squiggled string imprints have been scrapped, brushed and swirled onto the paper to add texture, whimsy and lots of personality to the images. Black and white checked borders add a dynamic, contemporary touch.

Subject Matter: Figurative

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As an established contemporary artist, Carolyn Kramer wishes to restore human spirit by extending to viewers a sense of peace, spaciousness and lively energy expressed in her textured, nuanced canvases, gestural drawings and vivid manuscripts.

Carolyn was born in Johnstown, PA, USA, graduated from Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA, Fine Art, Post Grad & Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, B.Sc. Art Education. She has extensive exhibiting and art teaching experiences in both Canada and the US.

Raised in the Pennsylvania countryside, Carolyn has closely observed earth’s formations, a thematic influence in her work. Inspired by living close to Vancouver’s sea walls & Los Angeles’s lakes & mountains, her fine art has been described as soulful and ethereal .

Carolyn’s art is rich with painterly textures, layers of color on color and whimsical washes. Multi-layered paintings, drawings and mono-prints are created using various mediums of interwoven chalk pastels to chunks of vibrant acrylic paints, oil encaustics and delicate, dribbles of gold leaf. Throughout all her art work is a love of color and soulful expression.

Artwork Archive website represents available art from Carolyn Kramer’s three previously curated and successful, exhibited art series and collections, "DynamicDivas", “Feminine Visions” and “Nature Close-Up.”

She is the recipient of recent awards including the Westlake Village Artist’s Guild, Juried Group Show, 2nd Prize, Mix. Media, Westlake, CA, 2019 & the American Heritage Committee, NSDAR, Women in the Arts Recognition Award, 2015. Permanent collections include PDG Dental, EastLake Dental, SD, & Mattel Collection, LA.

Carolyn’s fine art has been described as inspiring & spiritual with a common thread of whimsy and rich textures.wo