Kari Minnick owns and operates Kari Minnick Art Studio in Southern Oregon, where she produces architectural commissions, fine art, and introduces artists from other media to kiln-glass. Her glasswork has won several prestigious awards and is held internationally in private, corporate, and embassy collections. Minnick began her career as a painter; earning a degree in studio art from the University of California at Davis. An exhibiting artist and dynamic educator, Kari shows her work and teaches internationally.
"My art and life are a study of contrasts; order and chaos, thick and thin, questioning and acceptance. Using rich surfaces and layers of glass, I contrast fleshy realism with abstraction. Immediacy and restraint, delicacy and directness; I balance bold composition and nuanced line. I'm a maker of pictures and teller of stories; soothed by familiar fluency yet stirred by ecstatic newness. Fleeting gesture on solid ground, murky meaning and bruising impact, unrest and eerie calm. Disparate elements collide and resolve into beauty."