Karl P. Koenig
NEW GROUNDS Print Workshop & Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE Suite 100B; Albuquerque, NM, 87108, (505) 268-8952
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Karl P. Koenig
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Artist Statement
Now counted in the dwindling hundreds, once thousands of wooden or tin-clad grain elevators were erected after 1900 across the vastness of Canada and America. They were essential to the economic survival of farmers and to the continent’s general prosperity. The elevators stood out so vividly they were commonly called prairie skyscrapers. Many can still be seen on the horizon in remote regions of places like Montana, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Located on rail spurs these elderly wrecks are now often regarded as safety hazards by village fathers or as nostalgic reminders of a worthy past by history buffs. For the most part they are ignored by those who pass them daily and are noted only when they finally collapse or burn - by mistake or intention.
There is a visual poetry in early industrial and agricultural architecture which tells about our past, of families and their struggles, of success and tragedy. Rich stories are also suggested by the other derelicts I have printed ranging from rotting ships’ piers off Manhattan Island and the peeling cast iron stairs of a once vital Eastern train station . The photographic imagery is of two types. One is in the Gumoil method. Rubbed-in oils over a gum matrix provided the pigmentation and then, with careful bleach etching, polychromes were made. Each image is unique. The other images are made by the gravure process and printed in limited editions from hand-inked steel plates passed through an etching press. |
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Biography
Date and Place of Birth: 1938, Hamilton, New York
Education: Bachelor of Science. Trinity College. Hartford, Connecticut. 1960 (Philosophy and Psychology) Master of Science. University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1962 (Psychology) Doctor of Philosophy. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1963 (Psychology)
Additional Art Education: Course work in the 1990's in alternative process photography, serigraphy, lithography, and various theory serminars at the University of New Mexico. Awards and grants: Willard Van Dyke Photography Award 1994
Exhibitions “Made in New Mexico”, Wolverhampton College, Wolverhampton, U.K. “Made in New Mexico”, Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina New Mexico Perspectives, Albuquerque, New Grounds, 2007 Daylesford Invitational, Melbourne 2007 Art Santa Fe, 2007 “Studies in Time” Melbourne, Australia. Fine Art Living Gallery. 2006 Art Santa Fe 2005 New Grounds Gallery. Albuquerque, NM. “The Skull Beneath the Skin” Gumoils and Gravures. 2005 Gold Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia “Gumoil Images” 2005 Richard Stockton College Gallery, New Jersey. 2005 “There Is No Why Nere.” El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center. 2004 “There Is No Why Here.” FotoFest Houston. “There Is No Why Here.” Thirty Seven images of Concentration Camp Architecture. Holocaust Museum Houston March 7, 2004 to July 30 2004. (This is the culmination of a ten year project in which I visited and revisited photographically the residual architecture of ten camps, ultimately taking me repeatedly to six European countries.) Gold Street Gallery Melbourne, Australia. Fall/Winter 2004 "Hier ist kein warum" One man show. Museum of the Holocaust. Photofest 2004 entry for this museum, Houston. "Magnificent Trees" New Grounds Gallery. August, 2003. (Photoetchings.) "Images of Havana" San Diego Cuban Center, May, 2003 "The Print Exposed" The Gold Street Studio, Melbourne, Australia. Summer 2003 Santa Fe Invitational Annual Art Exposition 2003 “Magnificent Trees” Photogravures at New Grounds Gallery. One man show. 2003 Prints of the World Paris, France, Invitational, 2003 Second Street Show Charles Burke Invitational. Albuquerque, 2000 Invitational Show Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque 2000. “Six Images of Concentration Camps” The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. September 8-December 31,1999 and to tour California in 2001. Two by Two Impost Gallery, Invitational. Albuquerque. 1999. Framed Richard Levy Gallery, Invitational. Albuquerque. 1998. Neopictorialism One Man Show, The Studio Gallery, San Diego. October 1998. Art 98 Basel Switzerland. LJE Exhibit at Messe Basel, Switzerland. 1998. Art Expo New York. LJE Exhibit at the Javits Center, NYC. 1998. "Sticks and Stones" One Man Show. Studio Gallery. San Diego. February 26-March 31. 1998. Art Expo New York. LJE Exhibit at the Javits Center, NYC. 1998. Art 98 Crawford Arts Centre. St. Andrews University, Scotland. Show and Catalogue publication. Spring, 1980. New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair (Juried). 1991 and 1992. "Iglesias Antiguas" Scheinbaum and Russek Gallery show, Santa Fe ,1992. "The Bisti" Gallery at the Rep, Santa Fe. 1993. Work exhibited at Platinum Plus Gallery, Santa Fe. 1992-1996. Geoffrey Diner's Gallery Show. Washington, DC. 1993. "Magnifico" Albuquerque (Juried Invitational). 1994. CAFE. Group Invitational Show. Albuquerque. 1994 and 1995. Santa Fe Contemporary Art Gallery. Santa Fe. Solo Exhibitions 1994 and 1996. Toledo Friends of Photography. Exhibition and selection for the show's poster. 1995. "The Third International Exhibition of Photo Technology and Art" Invitational show, Victoria, Australia. 1996. "Gumoil Images of the Southwest" Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico Zimmerman Library Gallery. 1996. "Exhibition of New Mexico Photographers" the Soros Centers in Kiev and Kharkov, Ukraine. 1996. Solo Exhibition of Non-Silver Prints. O'Neill's, Albuquerque. 1996. Museum of New Mexico. "Willard Van Dyke Award Winners" (Retrospective Exhibition 1985-1997). 1997. Juried Exhibition, Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY. 1997. 69th Annual Exhibition of Photography. Harrisburg, Pa. 1997. "Magnifico" Juried Exhibition. Albuquerque, 1997. "Luminos '97". Juried Exhibition. Lubbock. 1997. "New Orleans National Group Exhibition" Juried Exhibition, 1997. "Humor in Photography" Touring Group Show, originating in Santa Fe. 1997. "Light Images: A Selection of New Mexico Photographers" Santa Fe. 1997. "'97 National Juried Competition" The Phoenix gallery, NY. 1997 "The Fourth International Exhibition of Photo Technology and Art" London. June-October, 1997. "Humor In Photography" Invited work. New Media Arts, Santa Fe, 1997. Light Images IV. In conjunction with Poto Santa Fe. 1997 Prints of Albuquerque. Harwood Art Center.Albuquerque, 1997. "Small Works" Richard Levy Gallery, Invitational. Albuquerque, 1997 "The New Pictorialism" The Photographic Society's Gallery. New London, CT. February-march, 1998. "Sticks Basel Switzerland. LJE Exhibit at Messe Basel, Switzerland. 1998. "Neopictorialism" One Man Show Studio Gallery, San Diego. October 1998.
Major collections: Wolverhampton College, Wolverhampton, U.K. Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina College of Santa Fe University of New Mexico Art Museum Museum of New Mexico Governor's Capitol Art Collection Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxcaca (Foto Centro Manuel Bravo) Princeton University Art Museum
Gallery Representation: New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Gold Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Awards: New Mexico Council on Photography. The Willard Van Dyke Award, 1994.
Publications in related areas: Koenig, Karl P. Gum/Oil Printing: Monochromatic and Polychromatic Techniques. Darkroom and Creative Camera Techniques. September/October, 1991.
Koenig, Karl P. Van Dyke Printing: Monochromatic and Polychromatic Techniques.
Darkroom and Creative Camera Techniques, July/August, 1992. Teaching: Several seminars during the 1990's for the College of Fine Art, UNM. Workshops: Bath, APIS. England, the Darkroom Santa Fe, Coupeville Arts Center Whidbey Island Washington, Photographers Formulary in Montana, the College of Richmond, Virgina, Art Center of Salem, North Carolina, etc.
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