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Levels of Illusion

Acrylic and Mixed-Media on Canvas

Karina Nishi Marcus’ paintings speak from a visual vocabulary formed before the advent of words. In an exploration between primordial visual images and the mystery that surrounds perceived reality, these paintings follow a continuum from veils of color to densely textured surfaces of saturated color. Forms are intuited and emerge from the two-dimensional surface and dissolve into the depths. Painting is the process, an odyssey and a quest for the artist and the viewer.

A participant in the “Art Trails Open Studio Tour” for fifteen years in Sonoma County, Karina Nishi Marcus is represented by Art Pic gallery in the Los Angeles region and has also displayed her work at the California Museum of Art, Quicksilver Gallery, the Arts Council Gallery, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, as well as other numerous local, state and national venues. She has studied in many locations and in many traditions, and received her degree in art from the University of California at Santa Cruz. An inveterate traveler, Karina Nishi Marcus makes her home in Sebastopol, California.

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