Abstract
Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes (b. 1925) has created a consistently significant body of work over more than sixty years. She came to clay as rather an accident of marriage, but never looked back once she had taken it up in her hands, exploring its potential for both art and design. Over her long career, she studied and worked in the avant-garde institutions and places of the time, including Brooklyn College (under British architect and Bauhaus enthusiast Serge Chermayeff), Alfred University (where she studied with Charles Harder), Black Mountain College (where she taught in the ceramics programme with her husband, David Weinrib) and Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, NY. No wonder eight authors have taken on the task of examining her life and work from a variety of perspectives. Her personal and aesthetic choices touched many aspects of the tumultuous social and artistic worlds of the late twentieth century, yet she remained committed to her own impulses.
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