Karen Cunningham
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Cunningham documents the beauty and rhythm of urban public scenes in her on going series, “New York City Scenes”. Depicting various neighborhoods and subcultures of New York City, Karen captures the sublime of ordinary gestures found in the individuals and the daily life she has has encountered over her twenty years of living in the city. Trained as a documentary photographer, Cunningham’s mono prints are based on her street photographs and newspaper assignments. Karen’s mono prints incorporate digital and analogue photography, silkscreen, collagraph techniques to create a unique carborundum plate, which is printed multiple times in layers of hand applied colors. Reducing the subjects down to their essential silhouettes and heightening colors of the original scenes, Cunningham creates an ultra reality of an otherwise quotidian city scene. Like the things we see in passing in the city, Cunningham’s “New York City Scenes” prints are most successful when the viewer isn’t quite sure if the subject is real, manufactured, or vintage, but recognizes the grace of the familiar. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Economist, and Museum of the City of New York.
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Cunningham documents the beauty and rhythm of urban public scenes in her on going series, “New York City Scenes”. Depicting various neighborhoods and subcultures of New York City, Karen captures the sublime of ordinary gestures found in the individuals and the daily life she has has encountered over her twenty years of living in the city. Trained as a documentary photographer, Cunningham’s mono prints are based on her street photographs and newspaper assignments. Karen’s mono prints incorporate digital and analogue photography, silkscreen, collagraph techniques to create a unique carborundum plate, which is printed multiple times in layers of hand applied colors. Reducing the subjects down to their essential silhouettes and heightening colors of the original scenes, Cunningham creates an ultra reality of an otherwise quotidian city scene. Like the things we see in passing in the city, Cunningham’s “New York City Scenes” prints are most successful when the viewer isn’t quite sure if the subject is real, manufactured, or vintage, but recognizes the grace of the familiar. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Economist, and Museum of the City of New York.
Cunningham documents the beauty and rhythm of urban public scenes in her on going series, “New York City Scenes”. Depicting various neighborhoods and subcultures of New York City, Karen captures the sublime of ordinary gestures found in the individuals and the daily life she has has encountered over her twenty years of living in the city. Trained as a documentary photographer, Cunningham’s mono prints are based on her street photographs and newspaper assignments. Karen’s mono prints incorporate digital and analogue photography, silkscreen, collagraph techniques to create a unique carborundum plate, which is printed multiple times in layers of hand applied colors. Reducing the subjects down to their essential silhouettes and heightening colors of the original scenes, Cunningham creates an ultra reality of an otherwise quotidian city scene. Like the things we see in passing in the city, Cunningham’s “New York City Scenes” prints are most successful when the viewer isn’t quite sure if the subject is real, manufactured, or vintage, but recognizes the grace of the familiar. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Economist, and Museum of the City of New York.
