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Quiet Waters Park, © Karen Francis oil on canvas, 24” x 30” framed Karen explores many styles in her work, with oil being her medium of preference. She has sold abstractions, portraits, and landscapes and also enjoys creating computer enhanced digital images. "Interactive Conceptual”: Ms. Francis led urban public art projects typically involving large numbers of people working together on a creation of an educational nature such as "A Valentine For The Earth", a multi-media ecology art sculpture designed for Ecomedia in DC in 1993 in a collaboration with a sculptor, and also recorded as a TV program.   In 2006 she had a one-woman art exhibit, Global Warning, in Memphis.   In addition to painting, Ms. Francis produced a number of cable TV programs on the arts in Merrifield, Virginia during the timeframe of 1989 - 1996.  She placed art of about sixty artists on the set of the program Metropolitan Magazine, and then hosted and interviewed artists and community leaders on the program Heart of the Matter at the FCAC public access station. She maintains this website which has been on the web since 1996. Wild, Wild West, © K. Francis oil on canvas 16" x 20" COPYRIGHT, 1997-2011.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE ARTIST

A Memphian, Karen graduated from KHS and Rhodes College and attended University of Memphis in the summers.  Following grad school at the University of Missouri she taught at the University of Georgia for two years then relocated to the Washington DC area. She studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in DC, the Art League School in Alexandria, VA, The New York Art Students League, and George Mason Univ. in VA. She returned to TN in 2005. Her paintings and prints are in many collections throughout the U.S. and Canada. MORE New Florida Series, Print through Fine Art America New Online Shopping Cart for Karen's Prints by Fine Art America Exhibitions and Collectors News Karen's Art Resume Art Promotions Goes International—Learn More Visit New Blog “What’s Happening Now” Slide of Karen's work at fineartamerica available (w/o black border) as authorized prints. Click on these images to learn about prints at fineartamerica.com Many of the works by Karen may also be purchased as signed, limited edition giclees on paper or on canvas a variety of sizes. Some may be found at art-exchange.com Karen also often participates in the Artists Link group exhibitions. Thanks for visiting. Hope you will bookmark this site and call when you are ready to purchase art, schedule a studio visit, or inquire.   Contact Karen  at kfrancis427@gmail.com or call 901 289-4939            Updated: 3/31/11