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SARAH B. SMITH GALLERY
KAREN EIDE
The Space Between Sound
May 2 – June 1The Space Between Sound explores the boundaries between the recognizable and the abstract. Karen merges elements from memories, dreams, and imagination—composing layered, meditative paintings untethered to time or place.
The exhibition title is inspired by Claude Debussy’s idea that “music is the space between the notes,” a concept that becomes a metaphor in her practice. Within these quiet pauses—between noise and stillness—she finds the space to explore mystery and possibility. From here her work emerges.
Nature is the recurring thread throughout her work. Drawing from a personal iconography of flora and fauna, the artist places these elements in liminal, abstracted, or ambiguous environments that act as visual meditations. Her daily life on a farm and long-time meditation practice inform a contemplative process that blends oil, cold wax, encaustic, acrylic, graphite, pastels, ink, and hand-painted collage elements. Intuitive and process-driven, her layered compositions evoke the ephemeral qualities of memory, offering a visual language that is at once grounded and ethereal—familiar, mysterious, and quietly hopeful.
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When the Moon Came Out, cold wax and oil, mixed media on wood panel, 33 x 40[/caption]
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