Karen Cornelius shares stories of loved ones and good memories imbued into some of her early sculptural and multimedia artworks on display in her Petersburg Public Library retrospective.
A retrospective of paintings, carvings and jewelry by Petersburg artist Karen Cornelius closed at the Petersburg Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 1, and on its last day the artist walked through the exhibition with the Pilot, reflecting on her lifetime of art making.
Cornelius kept returning to one idea: that she makes art to get people to look harder at the world around them.
"I am so in love with colors and nature and the creation that we have," she said. She wants viewers to "look more carefully when they're outside and see the beauty of patterns" - a dewdrop on a leaf, a bird reflected on...
Reader Comments(0)