September 4 – October 14, 2025 EXTENDED TO NOV 11, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday Sept 12, 2025 5pm – 7pm

June Kelly Gallery
166 Mercer Street
New Yor, NY 10012

“On Batten’s travels she draws and takes photos of the natural world that find their way into her paintings, which also make reference to space technology, seascapes and aerial views of urban landscapes.
Drawing on past experience with ceramics and metal scuptures and using many different materials, she works from above on the floor building a single unified richly textured surface which has the tactile appeal of sculpture.
This unorthodox approach lends a certain ystery to the outcome, yielding artworks that transcent specific categories and reach for an implication of universality.
“I ruminate over them a long time,? she says.””

– Martha Sawin
art critic, author and art historian

Karin Batten was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied painting and sculpture at Central Saint Martins College, London, England with a BFA. She received her MFA from Hunter College (CUNY), New York City. From 1974 to 1986 she taught drawing and design at Parsons School of Design in NYC. In her most recent work Karin’s luminous abstract improvisations of color, texture and form reflect her life-long fascination with the natural world. Her process parallels her inspiration, she describes it as “organic, spontaneous and intuitive like swimming in a vast sea”

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Website:https://www.karinbatten.com