About Karen Kilimnik

  • Biography

    Pop artist Karen Kilimnik was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she now lives. She graduated in 1976 from Temple University in that city.

    Her interests and subject matter are eclectic, varying from Tsarist Russia, classical ballet and the Gothic, to today's pop stars, glamour magazines, television soap operas, Sharon Tate, Leonardo di Caprio, Kate Moss, Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, and the world of fairies and fairy tales. Her work ranges from early "scatter piece" installations and historical fantasy drawings, to flower paintings, sculptures and photographs.

    Kilimnik was commissioned to do the official drawings for The Armory Show 2002 - The International Fair of New Art on Piers 88 and 90 in Ne...

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