Karen Warshal

Karen Warshal is a classical artist living and working in Baltimore City.  Her primary interests are the figure and portrait, and her most recent paintings depict people in interior spaces, evoking narratives that are sometimes easy to read and other times ambiguous or enigmatic.  She derives inspiration from the Old Masters, but also from the models themselves.  She always works from life and claims that one of the great things about painting people is the dynamic that exists between the artist and her model.

Karen received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her Master of Fine Arts from Tufts University in conjunction with the Boston Museum School.  She studied classical art at the Schuler School in Baltimore, at the Parker School of Structural Sculpture in Bethesda, and she has drawn extensively from antique sculptures in museums throughout Europe.  Ms Warshal teaches "Portrait Drawing" and "Anatomy for Artists" at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)  and leads art historical tours of Italy.  She has been featured in American Artist Drawing magazine, has been an ARC Salon semi-finalist, and has been the recipient of a Maryland State Individual Artist Grant. Her work is in many private collections.

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