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Kara
Artman

Exhibitions

Forgotten But Not Gone

Site Specific Installation

Installed on

Lyon Square Pavilion.

for

Metal Pavilion covered in colorful Ceramic bottles.

Kara Artman placing magnetized colorful ceramic bottles on a metal pavilion.

White bottle with six colorful buffalo going around the bottle.

View of white bottle with six colorful buffalos going around the bottle. View is of bottom of bottle.

Grandpa Jacks Trifle Buffalo Bottle

2025

Slip-Cast Porcelain Assemblage

Underglaze, Glaze

Cone 6 Electric Fire

33rd

Strictly Functional Pottery National

2025

Lancaster Art Museum

American Trifle Channel Ten

2025

Slip-Cast Porcelain Assemblage

Underglaze

Cone 6 Electric Fire

A Sense of Place 2025

at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art

Ceramic TV with metal antenna with flamingos and orange sun on screen.

Balloons ceramic bottles and clocks

Dreams of Winning

12 foot x 12 foot (at full drop)

Kinetic Sculpture

Installed in the Blue Line Gallery

Off Center 2025

Roseville, California

Received

Honorable Mention

Clay Larking: Long Distance Travel

99 Bottles Show 2025

at

Florida Art Craft

St. Petersburg

Three ceramic bottles with warm brown colors on center of bottle and gold names on bottles.

Artist Kara Artman in Booth of bottles and bowls

Third Place

at

The Art Market at Historic Honey Horn

2024

East Main neon sign night photo with ceramic bottles attached

Forgotten But Not Gone

Site Specific Installation

Artfields 2024

Installed on East Main Sign Lake City, SC

East main neon sign day photo with bottles being attached by artist Kara Artman

Dreams of Winning

12 foot x 12 foot (at full drop)

Kinetic Sculpture

Installed in the Trax Gallery Lake City SC 2023

11 broken glass bottle necks with a woven copper basket bottom.

Unconsidered Trifles: South Carolina Dispensary 2021

A Sense of Place at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art

Reconsidered Trifle: John Ryan Gilded cup

2021

10th Annual Cup Show at the

Janson Art Center

Porcelain cup, celadon with gold details that read John Ryan 1852 Savannah, GA

Hand with gold rings and braclets holding two cups, one yellow one orange with gold rims. Embosed on front of cups is a palm tree and the words south carolina dispensary

Reconsidered Trifle: Gilded South Carolina Dispensary Pair

2021

10th Annual Cup Show at the

Janson Art Center

Reconsidered Trifles: Pair of South Carolina Dispensary Cups 2021

Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show

Artist in front of floating shelf holding ceramic cups. Artist is pointing at two cups one yellow one orange that have gold rims.

Two broken bottle necks with copper wire woven around bottom to form a standing vessle.

Unconsidered Trifles Pair

2020

13th annual 10x10x10 Tieton Art show

Tieton, Washington

Trifling

2021

Mixed Media, ceramic, glass, copper and wood. Site specific Installation.

Participant in the 10th Annual Artfields

artist instilation two floating shelfs and a half table, with Unconsidered Trifles on the top Reincarnated Trifles in the middle and Reconsidered Trifles filling the table.

Unconsidered Trifles displayed on floating shelf. Broken glass bottles with woven bases.

32 Unconsidered Trifles displayed on 14 floating shelfs. Broken bottle necks with woven copper bases.

Unconsidered Trifles 2015-2017

Post consumer copper wire, found glass vintage bottle necks. Custom built floating shelves. Site specific spacing.

Participant in Artfields 2019 juried competition

Displayed at the R.O.B from April 26- May 4 2019

18 Unconsidered Trifles displayed on 7 floating shelves

5 Unconsidered Trifles antique broken bottle necks with woven base on floating shelf

Unconsidered Trifles 2015-2017

Post consumer copper wire, found glass vintage bottle necks.

Custom built floating shelves. Site specific spacing.

Participant in Unnatural History at the Spartanburg Museum of Art from December 21 2017 through March 4, 2018

three wall mounted purple fabric on beveled cardboard with broken dishes inlaid into the front.

Untitled 2013

Cardboard, fabric, found china pieces

Photo from A.R.T. Art Recycled from Trash Juried show

Picture This Gallery, Hilton Head Island

Untitled 2012

Post consumer copper wire, steal wire, and found glass.

Photo from A.R.T. Art Recycled from Trash Juried show

Picture This Gallery, Hilton Head Island

Untitled 9 glass bottle necks with woven metal bottoms

orange yellow and red ceramic pieces forming an art instilation.

Untitled 2009

Site Specific Installation

Slip cast stoneware Hand Built stoneware

Cone 06

BFA Graduate Show At

The School Of the Art Institute of Chicago

instilation of orange yellow and red ceramic pieces filling a room

Untitled Site specific installation

2008

Stoneware cone 06

One of 10 ceramic Artist participateing in show title Niche which was at the

South Side Community Art Center

Chicago Il

image of car through window with table in front filled with ceramic items chicken heads as well as owls and buttons all in orange yellow and red

Additional Public Work

Long wall with painted squares in a rainbow of colors. on the larger color blocks are beach icons as well as the words bluffton hilton head programs for exceptional people

Detail of mural with turtle and oyster shell

"Celebrating the LowCountry"

2018

Mural Designed and Painted for Programs For Exceptional People

Painted with the help of members from the program.

Detail of mural with dolphin and sand dollar

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