Karianne Canfield

Collecting the unwanted waste of life and compiling it into something beautiful. A reminder that all things continue to change. Karianne has been practicing painting for 14 years, exploring the fine arts and abstract painting world through reuse and redefinition. Their work is an assertion that as the world continues to transform we must be open to changing with it. By recycling materials they turn what has been disregarded into something valuable, despite its functionality.

It is not new, this form which it is transformed into, it was always there as an opportunity.

Their work explores themes around queerness, gender fluidity, and the climate crisis.

Exhibitions

Places and Being

An exploration of color, shapes and objects, this series investigates how we interact with one another. The way one color changes its neighbor, the passing of one object through another. Transitions and translations of originals impacted by everything around us.

Been Before

An 8ftx4ft painting relives many lifes in the scraps and clippings of its original form.

Recycled Resonance

Hosted at The O Zone in Redhook, NY August 2020 the show featured a number of works made from recycled pieces while I explored what a zero-waste lifestyle would look like and learned how to transform trash into something more.

A Constant State of Change

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, 2021

Older Work

This section features work not yet shown in a specific gallery.

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