Karen Kennedy accepted the invitation from the Heritage Fine Arts Guild to be the Juror for their Annual Exhibition at Bemis Library in Littleton, CO during May 2022. Enjoy visiting their website to view the entries and award winners.
In the ROX Arts Gallery located in the Aspen Grove Shopping Center, Littleton, Colorado 80120; one of 40 artists will Welcome You when you visit the gallery any day of the week. Currently showing are local artists with diverse offerings in original paintings created in all mediums and styles, ceramics, trees sculptures, photography, glass, and amazing jewelry. Art classes are available in all skill levels for teens and adults.
You can view original paintings by Karen Kennedy in person while visiting the ROX Arts Gallery.
Please, click here to enjoy seeing Karen's artwork on the ROX Arts Gallery website:
https://roxartsgallery.com
2021
Through Grants and support from artists who worked in the gallery, the ROX Arts Gallery remained open with shorter hours during 2021. Some of the Second Friday Receptions resumed with the gallery following the county standards related to wearing masks. Overall the sales improved over 2020 and the gallery continues to show beautiful artworks of 39 amazing local artists.
2020
None of us in our United States or the world would have foreseen the events we have seen this year due to the Covid 19 pandemic! We had a good January and February then our gallery closed in March and only recently re-opened with all the recommended precautions of social distancing, continuous sanitizing and wearing masks to control the spread of the virus. Our hours have been reduced to Wednesdays through Sunday for the immediate future. We have been sad to loose several artists from the gallery and welcomed new artists who have joined us. Our Thanks to many of our regular customers that have been visiting us. Our art classes started again with a limit of 10 people per class so we can maintain social distancing. The great news is that we now have established an on-line store during this period. I look forward to meeting you in the Rox Arts Gallery sometime soon.
Final Months of 2019
I show my art and am a gallery manager at the Rox Arts Gallery. The gallery is in the Aspen Grove Shopping Center, located at Mineral and South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, CO 80120. We are enjoying a successful year with 40 artists offering diverse styles and themes to entice you to browse and enjoy talking with our artists. We offer art classes for adults and teens in all levels from beginner through advanced and in all mediums. Our instructors are professional artists and teachers. When you sign up for a class, all your supplies are provided. This is a great way to try new things without the cost of buying all new supplies. Did you know that the gallery is part of the Roxborough Arts Council, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that receives grant support from SCFD (Scientific and Cultural Facilities District). Through this support we are able to offer classes at reasonable rates. I look forward to meeting you in the Rox Arts Gallery.
Second Quarter 2019
My co-Gallery Manager and I have installed 7 new artists in the Rox Arts Gallery this quarter. Please welcome them next time you visit. Hope to see you soon at Rox Art Gallery, located at Mineral and South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, CO 80120.
I received a delightful surprise when a young lady of 14 years presented an Art Critique she wrote of one of my paintings, "Spring Gathering". She plans to write books and do her own illustration for them in her future. I can easily believe she will meet this goal as her writing of this critique was excellent. I'm sharing it here for your enjoyment:
Art Critique by Sedona K.
The artwork I am critiquing is Spring Gathering by Karen Kennedy.
Six purple columbines sprout outward to reach for sunlight in purple-hued mountains, vibrantly shaded with realistic colors. Glossy greens, purples, whites, blues, and yellows come together in a painting marked $475.00. The title, Spring Gathering, symbolizes the wildflowers coming up once again after winter, joyfully basking in the sunlight once surrounded by snow-capped mountains. The flowers are grateful to be back again, providing life and beauty to others.
The artist used oil paints for this picture, brushing stroke after stroke and making it blend together to create six purple columbines standing inside rolling hills. The mountains and sky contrast in color with the flowers- the horizon begins with a light yellow and fades to a blue and purple mix. The mountains are the same; they are highlighted yellow and shaded with a violet-blue. The petals on the flowers look as though they would bend if you touch them as real petals do, and the mountains look like the Rockies with a misty guise.
I think Karen Kennedy, the artist, was showing the onlooker of the painting an amazing variety of colors that artists, like herself, like to work with. She thinks it is the lighting that sets the mood, from a telling of the pictures story to the atmosphere inside and outside of the portrait. This work makes me feel that calming sense I have when I am in the mountains, like the chill of the wind and the quiet, serenity the Rocky Mountains give us. I think the artist used oil paints because oils tend to give off a glossy look when dry, and they blend very well to make a masterpiece look surreal.
I chose this work because when me and my mom were at the ROXArts Gallery in Aspen Grove, Littleton (I recommend this art gallery and the bookstore beside it!), this painting caught my attention; I love realistic paintings. Columbines aren't just the Colorado state flower; they are my favorite flower, too. I love how contrasting this painting is with the colors, and personally I would not change anything. I love it the way it is! I think people enjoy this work because it reminds them of the magnificence of the mountains, like it does for me. Spring Gathering is showing all those years of practice, time, and determination that are put into art, from the understanding of how light bends on certain objects to the song the work tells.
Bibliography
1. Kennedy, Karen. www.karenkennedyart.com
This is the painting:
Spring Gathering : Oil : 20in x 20in
Enjoy our monthly SECOND FRIDAY RECEPTIONS - receptions second quarter 2019 will be: FRIDAY'S: April 12th, May 10th, and June 14th from 5:30 - 8:00 Adults + 21 years only please. Enjoy the wine and goodies as you browse the new art and check-out the selection of art classes for all ages and all levels of expertise.
ROX ART GALLERY: The Rox Art Gallery, sponsored by the 501(c)3 non-profit Roxborough Arts Council, is offering some children's art classes along with adult classes to the public this summer. We are bringing artists and people together in our community through education and the culture of art. Our larger gallery space #330 within the Aspen Grove Shopping Center has allowed the allocation of permanent class space to conduct these classes. Sign-up in the gallery or online at https://www.roxartscouncil.org. Located at Mineral and South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, CO 80120 find us just 2 doors North of Starbucks. We have 39 artists showing original works of art. The artworks are high quality in a diverse selection of styles and mediums.
First Quarter 2019
ROX ART GALLERY: The Rox Art Gallery, sponsored by the 501(c)3 non-profit Roxborough Arts Council, is offering an expanded variety of art classes to the public. We are bringing artists and people together in our community through education and the culture of art. Our larger gallery space #330 within the Aspen Grove Shopping Center has allowed the allocation of permanent class space to conduct these classes. Sign-up in the gallery or online at https://www.roxartscouncil.org. Located at Mineral and South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, CO 80120 find us just 2 doors North of Starbucks. We have 35 artists showing original works of art. The artworks are high quality in a diverse selection of styles and mediums.
Enjoy our monthly SECOND FRIDAY RECEPTIONS - receptions first quarter 2019 will be: FRIDAY'S: January 11th, February 8th, and March 8th from 5:30 - 8:00 Adults + 21 years only please. Enjoy the wine and goodies as you browse the new art and check-out the selection of art classes for all ages and all levels of expertise.
December 2018
ROX ART GALLERY: The Rox Art Gallery has moved to a larger space #330 within the Aspen Grove Shopping Center located at Mineral and South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, CO 80120. Find us just 2 doors North of Starbucks. We now have 35 artists showing original works of art. The artworks are high quality in a diverse selection of styles and mediums. For the holiday season we've added small handmade gift items and ornaments for your tree.
Enjoy our monthly SECOND FRIDAY RECEPTIONS - next reception is FRIDAY, December 14th, 5:30 - 8:00 PM. January's reception 5:30 - 8:00 will be January 11, 2019. You are invited.
Summer 2018
EXHIBITION: JUNE 26 through JULY25, 2018 at the STANTON GALLERY in Littleton's TOWN HALL ART CENTER, 2450 Main Street, 80120
RECEPTION - FRIDAY, JULY 6, 5:30 - 7:30
Artist Karen Kennedy has been welcomed back to exhibit in the Stanton Gallery with two local artists, Patricia Jenkins and Patsi Pohle. We would enjoy meeting you at the reception.
Karen will be showing her oil and acrylic paintings that include several works inspired by a recent trip to Costa Rica.
Karen is affiliated with the ROX ARTS GALLERY located at the Aspen Grove Shopping Center, space #514 in Littleton, Colorado. She remains a member of the Roxborough Arts Council.
Rainforest Unveiled : Oil : 18in x 36in
In March 2018 the Aspen Grove Shopping Center extended our ROX ARTS GALLERY space #514 through September 2018. I am on the jury team for accepting new artists and co-Gallery Manager.
When you visit, expect to see high quality art as well as a diversity in types of art with twenty-eight artists involved.
November 2017 the Roxborough Arts Council contracted for a gallery space in the Aspen Grove Shopping Center.
ROX ARTS GALLERY opens December 1, 2018. The Aspen Grove Shopping Center is located at South Santa Fe Drive and Mineral Avenue in Littleton, Colorado.
November 2017
November 11 & 12, 2017 Holiday Show at the Roxborough Park Foundation
Roxborough Arts Council welcomes the holiday season with their annual Show of Fine Art and Gifts.
September 2017
September 2, 2017 EVENT
Sterling Ranch welcomes the art of Karen Kennedy. Ms Kennedy is showing her art with the Roxborough Arts Council
July through August 2017
July 1 through August 31, 2017 EVENT
The Library in Roxborough welcomes the art of Karen Kennedy. Ms Kennedy is showing nineteen oil and acrylic paintings in the Lockheed Martin Conference room. The public may contact the librarian for purchase information. Library is located in the Marketplace Shopping Center, Roxborough, CO 80125
May through July 11, 2017
May to July 11, 2017 EVENT
The historical TOWN HALL ART CENTER welcomes artist Karen Kennedy to the SALON d'LITTLETON show May 17 through July 11, 2017 with two receptions to meet the artists on June 2nd and July 7th. Location is 2450 West Main Street, Littleton, CO 80120
Q1 of 2017
In January I decided to take a sabbatical from the Rox Arts Gallery to further my art studies. My studies are focusing on new techniques and expanded insights into lighting effects on color and identifying and translating abstract shapes within larger shapes. I am absorbing both new and old concepts with new clarity. My membership in the Roxborough Arts Council continues to be important and enjoyable.
Please contact me with your comments, questions, or to request purchase information at: karen@karenkennedyart.com
