Born in 1964 in Venezuela, Karem Arrieta has been living and working in France since 1992.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and art galleries in Venezuela,Colombia, France, Portugal, an several United States cities including Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Boulder, Chicago and Boston.Additionally, her works have also travelled to Taiwan,South Korea and Japan and can be found in private and public collections.
Her paintings unite various confusing  univers that ultimately reveal the condition of the artist and the workings of her mind.The various cultures of Venezuela, among them the Indigenous, African, Dutch, Spanish and French, are "assumed as inner worlds, not exterior signs of appearance and appartenance ". The result is full of contradictions and dilemmas that make the work both mesmerizing, perplexing and often disturbing .

KAREM ARRIETA

Oil on canvas

Painting

Portrait

Carnival soon turns into a masquerade. Faces are masked.If the multi-layered compostions escape from  any type of realism , a truth comes out of it.

In this great carnival, a little red hood stands alongside  a toreador.The Caribbean exoticism increased to the point it becomes a shimmering varnish  

People

A carnival of disguised children forms itself, all dressed up from the contradictory ogre -like desires of their parents.

KAREM ARRIETA

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