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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18"x24"x1/2"
“These works were painted just before the pandemic at the end of 2019, the lone tent in one painting was the first that appeared in Echo Park and then the cluster of tents broke out across from the Angeles Temple. While painting the cluster, one of the residents confided that he had tapped into the electric grid and proudly told of his king-size mattress and microwave oven and that the Angeles Temple provided showers and one meal a day. I noticed young men cutting each other's hair and how the residents seemed to interact with kindness toward one another. A beautiful young woman crossed the street with me when I went to check the date the Temple was built on the plaque in front, however, and was talking to someone but there was no one there. It made me think of the king-size mattress guy.
My goal is to really look at the beauty of the world, however it presents itself, and depict it.”
Karen Pokraka has been painting and drawing since the early 1970's, for the past ten years, has been painting en plein air in oil and watercolor. Georgia O'Keefe and Alice Neel are special influences.
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18"x24"x1/2"
“These works were painted just before the pandemic at the end of 2019, the lone tent in one painting was the first that appeared in Echo Park and then the cluster of tents broke out across from the Angeles Temple. While painting the cluster, one of the residents confided that he had tapped into the electric grid and proudly told of his king-size mattress and microwave oven and that the Angeles Temple provided showers and one meal a day. I noticed young men cutting each other's hair and how the residents seemed to interact with kindness toward one another. A beautiful young woman crossed the street with me when I went to check the date the Temple was built on the plaque in front, however, and was talking to someone but there was no one there. It made me think of the king-size mattress guy.
My goal is to really look at the beauty of the world, however it presents itself, and depict it.”
Karen Pokraka has been painting and drawing since the early 1970's, for the past ten years, has been painting en plein air in oil and watercolor. Georgia O'Keefe and Alice Neel are special influences.