Details:

This ceramic wall portal features a suspended fabric interior. It combines diaristic texts and symbols with foraged photography to create an otherworldly, utopian offering.
Unframed
Signed
This work is three dimensional but can be hung exactly like a painting on canvas.

① Artwork:

Dodge City Kansas 2

This ceramic wall portal features a suspended fabric interior. It combines diaristic texts and symbols with foraged photography to create an otherworldly, utopian offering. Part of a series, this piece's cryptic messaging ponders the relationships between the man-made and the natural worlds; like much of Kara's work, it renders the familiar suddenly strange.

Specs:

21 inches
27 inches
3 inches
27 inches

③ Artist:

Manal Kara

Manal Kara’s practice frequently combines diaristic texts and symbols with foraged photography to create otherworldly works. They are a self-taught interdisciplinary artist and poet working in a range of mediums, including sculpture and ceramics. Kara's work renders the familiar strange by pondering the relationships between the manufactured and natural worlds.

BIO:

Manal Kara is a Moroccan-American born in 1986.

The artist’s work has been exhibited extensively in Chicago and New York City, as well as internationally in Istanbul, Turkey; Vienna, Austria; and Berlin, Germany.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Song of the Other Worm at Prairie in Chicago, Illinois; Tearassin' Like a Slug Outta Heaven at Basketshop in Cincinnati, Ohio; and The Viewing-Room vs. The Adoring Gaze at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn, New York. 

Their work has been included in group shows at: Helena Anrather in New York City; Hair and Nails in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in Chicago, Illinois; Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York City; Fisher Parrish in Brooklyn, New York; and Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. 

They have participated in residencies at: Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions in Chicago, Illinois; Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency in Saugatuck, Michigan; September Spring at the Kesey Farm in Eugene, Oregon; and the American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings in Tucson, Arizona.

④ Additional:

Manal Kara:
Dodge City Kansas 2, 2020
Ceramic and photographic prints on cotton
27.0 × 21.0 × 3.0 inches /
Manal Kara:
Dodge City Kansas 2, 2020
Ceramic and photographic prints on cotton
27.0 × 21.0 × 3.0 inches /
manal kara dodge city kansas 2

This ceramic wall portal features a suspended fabric interior. It combines diaristic texts and symbols with foraged photography to create an otherworldly, utopian offering.More

  • Unframed
  • Signed
  • This work is three dimensional but can be hung exactly like a painting on canvas.
Offered in October 2021
Share