Prints & Drawings

Editors Note: View the exhibition online. Also, enjoy this video of Kareken discussing his work.
 

Groveland Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Prints & Drawings by Michael Kareken.  Kareken, a Tacoma, Washington native, moved to Minnesota in 1993 after ten years of studying and working in New York. 

Kareken has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the McKnight Foundation, Arts Midwest, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vogelstein Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. 

Kareken was the 1997 recipient of the Louise Nevelson Award for Art from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and in 2000 won an award for printmaking from the National Academy of Design.  

Most recently, Kareken received a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. He currently teaches painting and drawing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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Show runs alongside Alight & Aloft: Avian Observations, also at Groveland Gallery.