| Karen Kulyk is a professional artist and painter working in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Karen's 2008 exhibition at Page and Strange; A Catalan View was the beginning of an ongoing exploration of how light and colour can simplify a subject in its space and enhance its visual and historical meaning. In the fall of 2009, Karen walked the Pilgrim route through Spain to Santiago de Compostela. In October of 2010 Karen realised what she discovered in an exhibition at Gallery Page and Strange in Halifax.
After graduating from York University in 1973 with an Honours BFA, Karen Kulyk established and successfully ran Seedlings, a Toronto gallery for emerging artists for two years, while continuing with her own studio work. She joined the Marianne Friedland Gallery in 1975 and embarked on an eventful life of painting and exhibiting that has taken her to Thailand, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Bermuda, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, and Canada. She was awarded the Grollo d'Oro for her use of colour at the Treviso International Art Competition, Italy in 1983 and a Sheila-Hugh Mackay Foundation grant in 1997, and is a Fellow of Winter's College at York University and Grey College at Durham University, England. She is the first Canadian to exhibit at the National Gallery of Thailand, and the Chicago International Art Exhibition and was invited to represent her country at Festival Canada 1991 in Hong Kong. Kulyk has exhibited nationally with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, and the Glenbow, Calgary among others and internationally in England, France, Bermuda and Mexico over a professional career that spans thirty-two years. Her work hangs privately as far away as South Africa and Japan and is included in many museum and corporate collections around the world. |
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| Sopra iI ponte, Firenze Oil on Canvas, 36" x 48" |
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