This set of ten paintings by the artist Karen Joubert, known as Karen, donated to MAMAC, is part of her early period.
Knowing that the artist spent her childhood between California and transatlantic liners, associating with the most prominent people and the opulence of luxury hotels, one begins to understand the hopeful light emanating from her work. She marries a Thai artist, falling under the charm of this country with its lush vegetation.
Karen will exhibit at the Beaubourg gallery in Paris, where she reveals herself to the public. The works exhibited today are like sunbeams exploding and radiating. Due to her clothing style, Karen has been compared to Ultra-Violet, but the comparison ends there.
Karen is an artist of life and Faith. She proclaims it. Her paintings are made of bright, exhilarating colors. The forest is populated with strange beings and surreal plants. Everything is beautiful, no, everything is divine. The Garden of Eden rediscovered.
Her painting is tactile, moving from shadow to light. Some have spoken of the ocean depths, which is quite possible, featuring brilliant glimmers, multicolored sparkles, shimmering diamonds.
We are diving among gorgonians and the surface calls us. The sphere is there also to engage us. We are the custodians of the world and the earth, and we must preserve it for our children. There is a message of hope, of Faith. Karen is like that, cheerful, lively, and she draws you into her world, a comic book backdrop.
Perhaps you will recognize, provided you have the soul of a child, the forest of Roquefort les Pins, where Karen has lived for a quarter of a century. These marvelous and fabulous landscapes, a therapy against gloom, a world rediscovered, an Eden finally within your reach.
Thierry Jan
