The Salina Art Center is pleased to present The Map vs. The Walk, a survey show of Kansas native artist Karen Reimer. Stepping into the practice of Karen Reimer, requires a delicate balance between well-honed craft and steeped intellectual content. Utilizing hand-crafted labor intensive techniques which explore formal and conceptual relationships, Reimer’s artwork is manifested in embroidery, quilts, and installations. 

The Map vs. The Walk welcomes the viewer through a large fabric ceiling installation composed of square and rectangular frames holding tightly stretched blue circular quilted fabric pieces. This site specific work is meant to evoke the vastness and grandeur of the Kansas sky and also makes references to water and stained glass. The exhibition will also feature other series from the artist’s thirty year career, including Climate Data, Sea Change, Geometry in Outer Space or Heaven, Newspapers, Boundary Troubles, and Copies.

Reimer will also introduce new work that is part of her Climate Data series, focusing on the shrinkage of Ogallala Aquifer, which begins in South Dakota and stretches down to Texas. Through the use of layering patterns, overlapping and repetitive embroideries of data visualizations, the artist explores human cognitive patterns while highlighting climate change and rising sea levels.  

Programming

february 16

ZOOM AND FACEBOOK LIVE | 12 - 1 PM | FREE

Lunch & Learn | Karen Reimer Artist Talk

february 23

SALINA ART CENTER | 5 - 7 PM | FREE

Opening Reception | Nate McClendon, orchestra leader, performer and teaching artist at the Beach Museum of Art will perform

april 20

ZOOM AND FACEBOOK LIVE | 12 - 1 PM | FREE

Lunch & Learn | Catherine Shotick, stained glass scholar and Curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art will speak about stained glass.

The Map vs. The Walk is funded by Salina Art Center members and Giving Tuesday donors including the Orbit Fund, Karen Black, Sydney & Morrie Soderberg, Bill & Kathleen Pierson, Mike Soetaert & Melanie Terrill, John & Debbie Divine, William Counter & Lee Romaniszyn, and Fred & Sue Guzek.