Recently I listened to a new compact disc of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's music that I borrowed from the Allen County Public Library. The music was totally new to me.
I was working on a painting of daisies while listening to the music. The tempo and rhythm came through so strongly in the painting that I decided to call it Gottschalk and Daisies.
Karen Moriarty is a seasoned artist who has worked for thirty years in the visual arts. Having studied fine art at the Fort Wayne Art Institute, she worked as a studio painter in the 1960s. With those early roots in painting, she then applied her expertise to environmental design with two Indiana firms, designing and engineering interiors for restaurants, night clubs, clinics, and homes. Later she operated her own design studio, expanding into graphic arts and illustration.
Her conceptual work with light and space in wood, steel, glass, textile,
stone, and typography as functional design has broadened her vision as an
artist. In 1992 she returned to further study in the School of Fine and
Performing Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne and
ultimately to painting.
From MUSIC AND MUSICIANS: INTERPRETATIONS BY ARTISTS OF ALLEN COUNTY
An Exhibit at The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana from November 2 through December 30, 1995.