- Kara Maria
Kara Maria is a contemporary American painter. She was born in Binghamton, NY in 1968. Her work explores the politics of war and its influence on popular culture.
During the Kosovo conflict of the late '90s, Maria was struck by the use of rape as a war tactic and torture method. She began combining images of pornography and combat to examine the interaction of sexual energy and the military. Using the naked and overtly sexual body as a montage element, she draws on a wide spectrum of contrasting images including military iconography, such as soldiers and camouflage patterns, as well as consumer goods and details from the natural world.
Maria received both her BA and MFA from the University of California at Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice.
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; the di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; and the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, among others.
Other articles and links to Kara Maria:
* [http://www.artadia.org/artists/sf2001/index.html Artadia - The Fund for Art and Dialogue, NY]
* [http://www.eastsideeditions.com/KaraMaria/KaraMaria.html East Side Edition, NY]
* [http://www.sfelectricworks.com/gal/gal.php Electic Works, CA]
* [http://www.larramendygallery.com/artists/maria.html Nathan Larramendy Gallery, CA]
* [http://www.sharksink.com/artists.asp?artists=42 Shark's Ink., CO]
* [http://www.smithandersen.com/artistpages/recent_press_projects_p2.html Smith Anderson Editions, CA]
* [http://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=329 White Columns, NY]
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