Don't look at me !, 2018

Karine Wagener  

Karine Wagener is a painter born in Paris where she lives and works in her studio.

Fascinated by painting and drawing since childhood, she has always held a brush or a pencil in her hand.

After studies in Law and then languages, she moves to live between Milan and the French Riviera where she works in fashion then in event management.

But art remains an obsession.

Years later she reestablishes herself in Paris where she attends painting and drawing classes for 7 years at the Beaux-Arts ateliers of Paris.

Since then, she transcribes on canvas or paper subjects not as they are but as she sees them: full of optimism. This is translated by bright colors for the joyful emotion they bring, but also by femininity in what she finds sensual.

Her vision was shaped from childhood by the still lifes of the 17th-century Dutch School, but also by a certain pop culture mixing comic strips and American cinema of the 1950s and 60s, whose colors, settings, costumes, and music still fascinate her.

She sublimates the world around her in her daily life. Something banal in which she can detect an elegance that triggers in her the nostalgic emotion of an era she has not known. The desire to reinterpret it, giving it life, joy. This banal then becomes a subject in itself, a unique point of interest.

She wants her painting like a shot of Vitamin D that the sun provides, like an invitation to slow down and smile. To feel good, reassured by an ode to femininity, beauty, and joy in a very gray world, but that she will tirelessly insist on seeing as a movie…

In Technicolor!

Karine Wagener sells in Europe and the rest of the world where her works are part of private collections.