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Alexandria, VA 22314
703-838-4565

Karen Hubacher

Media:  Mixed Media & Printmaking
Phone:  703.801.3702
Website: www.karenhubacher.com
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Vernal Syntax No. 3
Oil & mixed media on canvas
20" x 20"
Refuge No. 3
Oil & mixed media on canvas
10" x 30"
Shelter VII
collagraph
18" x 18"


Karen Hubacher grew up in Clarion, Pennsylvania. Despite a childhood passion for drawing and painting she has a B.S. from American University in Computer Systems. For 15 years she was a systems analyst in the Department of Defense consulting industry, with painting a part-time pursuit.

In 1986 she began studying watercolor painting with Susan Abbott, hauling a suitcase full of art supplies with her on business trips, painting at night in her hotel room. A temporary move to Korea in 1989, where she was able to devote her days to painting, was the catalyst for leaving her career and establishing herself as a full-time, exhibiting artist when she moved back to the Washington, DC area. During the 1990's her creative focus moved to printmaking and the book arts. In 2000, encouraged by a workshop with Boston abstract painter, Wilfredo Chiesa, Hubacher began to paint again, this time with acrylics and mixed media.

In 2001 and 2008 she was awarded Painting Fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center. In 2002, she was awarded a scholarship from the Santa Fe Art Institute. A class with William Willis at the Corcoran School of Art in 2004 facilitated her current passion for working in oil.

Hubacher's "constructed" mixed media paintings and collagraph prints are characterized by their organized compositions and their textured surfaces. Her materials are acrylic, oil, graphite, pastel, paper, cardboard, canvas scraps and other random findings. In her work she addresses the concepts of order and balance and what reflects the essence of "place."

Her paintings and collagraph prints are in many public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

 
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