Art display at OzSBI featuring the work of Karen Pitts
Wed, 03/23/2022 - 11:05am
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The West Plains Council on the Arts (WPCA) and Ozarks Small Business Incubator (OzSBI) have partnered to bring quarterly art displays to the incubator. Local artist Karen Pitts' works will be featured inside OzSBI's first floor April 1 through the end of June 2022. Visitors may view the display at the incubator during OzSBI's business hours, anytime between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"Karen's ability to use the principles of design to create vibrant abstract paintings will assure the viewer of an exciting experience," WPCA Coordinator Janey Hale said. "Though her works are abstractions they create a visual emotion that any art lover will appreciate."
Pitts is the founder, owner, and operator of "Treat Your Palette" a business that opened in 2014, hosting painting parties in southern Missouri and Edmond, Oklahoma. "I love teaching, especially painting and painting techniques to adults and kids," Pitts explained. "I love it that someone that had attended a painting party was able to go home and use those techniques to create their own painting... it is so rewarding."
Pitts enjoys working with different art media: pencil, chalk pastels, charcoal, oil paint, oil and cold wax, and clay, but her favorite is using acrylics in the abstract style. "Abstracts for me is a way to express my mood onto canvas. Sometimes, I'll have an image in my head and I can't sleep until I put that image onto the canvas. I also love applying texture to my paintings, using hand-printed paper, model paste, and applying the paint heavy onto the canvas," she explained. Today, you can find Karen in her home studio creating.
A Meet-the-Artist event will be held on Thursday, May 26 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in OzSBI's lobby at 408 Washington Ave. in West Plains. The public is invited to attend, meet Pitts, view, and discuss the pieces on display.
For more information about the exhibit, contact Madison Hizer madisonhizer@ozsbi.com at OzSBI or WPCA Coordinator Janey Hale at jhale2129@gmail.com.