Karen and her work was seen at these events:
Shows
in 2008
included: Settlers West American Miniatures Show,
Tucson, AZ; the C.M. Russell Show and Auction,
Denver; the Buffalo Bill Cody Show and Auction,
in Cody,
WY; Hilligoss
Gallery Invitational,
Chicago, IL; The Bradford Brinton Museum's
Invitational” Big Horn, WY;
American Art in Miniature - Gilcrease Museum,
Tulsa, OK; Le Jeune
Salon, Gallery 1261,
Denver, CO and the American Women Artists Show
at Gallery Gabrie, Pasadena, CA.
Previous Events
In recent years, she has
gained notoriety in the National Art scene, with participation and winning
awards in these venues: Best
of Show,
Publishers Choice Award
from the Editor of Plein Air
Magazine
and People's Choice Award,
from
the
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Show; Juror's
Honorable Mention
and People's Choice Award
at the Buffalo Bill Cody Show
and Auction
in Cody, Wyoming, People's
Choice-Best Painting
at the C.M. Russell Show,
in Great Falls Montana, and Best of Show - Nomades Del Arte,
Santa Fe, NM.
Vance is a Member of the
National Art Club,
California Art Club,
a Signature Member of the
National Academy of Professional Plein Air Painters, Emeritus Signature Member
of Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters,
and
Master Signature Member
of
American Women Artists. Yosemite National
Park has
also awarded Karen with a residency and exhibit for the year 2007-2008.
Karen's painting, "Winter in the North Platt River Valley" was
chosen in Spring of 2008 for part of The University of Denver's
permanent collection.
She was featured in Southwest
Art Magazine:
"A Natural Calling"
by Norman Kolpas, February
2005; Art of the West Magazine:
Karen Vance:
"A Sense of Intimacy" -
2006 January/February; and
Inform Art
Magazine
has featured her
work on the cover of the 2006/2007 Winter
issue with an article by editor Peggy Kinstler. Also
the book, Enchanted
Isle: The History of Plein Art Painting on Santa Catalina Island,
available through Art of the
West Magazine.
A
newly released book, Landscapes
of Colorado
– Mountains and Plains,
under the curatorship of Ann
Daley, Curator of American Art - Denver Art Museum,
and Michael Paglia, Art Critic of Westword, and featuring
Karen's paintings in the book and on it's front cover.
Held April 28th - June 5th, 2001
Loveland Art Museum
Loveland, Colorado
"Origins of Spring"
an original oil painting
~ image:
24" x 26"
All of Karen's paintings sold out in the
first Round at the Governor's Invitational Show Gala on Saturday night,
and she won the prestigious "Collector's Choice Award".
for her painting titled, "Origins of Spring". She
received a beautiful engraved walnut and bronze plaque
commemorating the award, and a $3000. check from Redi-Mix of Loveland,
one of the Rotary Club Sponsors. The award winning painting
will adorn the cover of next year's catalog and limited edition giclée
prints will be available of the piece at the Loveland Museum.
Rocky Mountain PBS WILD
WILD AUCTION:
Held Saturday, April 21 to Sunday, April 29,
2001
From the Anniversary Collection:
"Passing Summer Storm Over the
Flat Top Mountains"
an original oil painting
~ image: 22" x 28"
~ Value: $3700.
33rd Annual C. M. Russell Auction and Show
Held
March 21st - 24th 2001
Gallery # 242 Heritage Inn
Great Falls, Montana
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UPDATE: C.
M. Russell Auction
Karen, once again won the 3rd place award
for her exhibit at the C. M. Russell Show in Great Falls Montana.
"Before she placed her first painting up
for display Wednesday evening, Karen Vance had art collectors stopping
by her exhibition room hoping to snag her work before the next eager
buyer.
By Sunday, the Colorado painter had sold all but a few small
paintings. "I wish I would have had more paintings to
sell," she said. "I think I could have sold even
more."
The popularity of Vance's oil and watercolor
mountain-and-wildflower landscapes was somewhat of an anomaly.
Many of the artists and gallery owners displaying work in the Heritage
Inn as a part of this week's Western art show were disappointed with
sales.
Collector's seemed more cautious than in previous record
selling years.
Steve Zabel, owner of Montana Trails
Gallery in Bozeman, has had an exhibit room for the past 10
auctions. "This year there were fewer people at the show,
... and sales were slower than in the past. I think if it's a
really good painting, people were willing to pay for it." he
said." - The Great Falls Tribune
Karen was featured in "Artists
to Watch"
in the March 2001 issue of SouthWest
Art Magazine
The RCVFD Richard Schmid
Fine Art Auction
"Looking Across the Great Divide"
(from Trail Ridge Road)
Impressions
of New England - Juried Show
"Cut Hay Fields"
Karen Vance
was a featured artist at the
Denver Center of Performing Arts Gala:
"Saturday Night Alive"
Karen's 12"
x 24" oil painting titled "Spring Morning in the High Country"
was bought for $3000.
by Sharon Magnus of Englewood, Colorado.
