Karen Pierce Gonzalez

Mixed Media

Where are we going and when do we leave to get there?
Mixed Media, 8x11

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My view of a Golden Crested Kinglet nest. They are amazingly shaped like this!  16x20

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A blend of color and texture. paper, acrylics, oil pastels, watercolors, glitter. 9x12

Sculpture

I saw a dragon (with chalk pastel scales) in this piece of pine tree bark. 8x18

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This dried palm tree frond (w/acrylics) still reaches for sunlight.  (6 in at the base, 20 in at the top

Sculpture

This six-inch section of a daisy branch caught my eye right away! It rests its chalk-pasteled body on a round of redwood. 

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This mixed media collage is a tribute to the folklore of black crows who offered their feathers to a swan who lost his feathers after trying to steal boomerang magic from women in New Zealand.  Once he realized the error of his greed, the crows covered him with feathers. 
This image is the cover of Nightingale & Sparrow's Summer 2022 issue: poetry

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This textile piece is a 'close-up' of what the heart pumps through our veins. 12x12 

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This small piece is a fusion of paper-thin tree bark, paper-thin rice paper and oil pastels. 

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One of three pieces I made after my dear cousin Kim died. I was able to use some of her costume jewelry in every piece I made. 

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This imagined tapestry fragment was on the wall of the Fraumunster Haas in Zurich. It celebrates the inspiration for the first women's ministry in Bavaria. Hildegaard was the daughter of a 10th century Bavarian King who created the Fraumunster Haas where women lived, studied, and practiced the arts.
Mounted 20x24 Mixed Media (burlap, pastels, yarns, threads)
 

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This mixed-media look into an enchanted forest was featured in Nightingale & Sparrow's 'poetry' issue. Paper, chalk, paint skin, acrylics, glitter. 9x12

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