Dynamic Color Field Paintings

Kari Bienert, karibienert.com, is an Australian painter who excels in the use of color configurations and the art of transforming geometric and curvilinear forms. She explores the unlimited potentiality of chromatic and tonal scales, visual planes and volume within a two-dimensional framework. Viewing her dynamic and exuberant works of art is an exciting kinetic experience.

Kari grew up and currently lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia and received her Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from the University of South Australia. She has traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe including France, England, Italy and Greece.

Kari Bienert, Diamonds oil on canvas, 58″ x 37″

Kari has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Her works are in private and public collections around the world including Artbank and Macquarie University Australia.

Her many one-person and group exhibitions include those at Worth Gallery and BMG Gallery, in Adelaide; and Flinders Street Gallery, in Sydney.  A solo exhibition was held at The Main Gallery, 156 Halifax Street, Adelaide, in September, 2022.

In 2019 Kari exhibited seven works in the popular Art on Parade, South Australia. In 2019 her art was chosen for “The Healing Power of Color” online art exhibition  on The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS website.  Kari is also included in a YouTube video “The Healing Power of Color” on the Manhattan Arts International channel.

She received an Award of Excellence in the Manhattan Arts International “The Healing Power of ART” 2019 exhibition. She also won the Second Place Cash Award in the Manhattan Arts International “HERStory 2017” curated exhibition.

Kari Bienert, Flow, oil on canvas, 58.2″ x 37.7″

As a Color Field painter Bienert pursues color relationships with fervor. Her color palette is innovative and complex. She mixes more than 30 different oil paints to create every color in her painting.

Due to the large scale of her paintings, her pictorial scheme appears to extend beyond our peripheral vision. As colorful patterns advance and recede, undulate and coalesce, they emulate the manner in which the universe operates in the energetic realms of both the microcosm and macrocosm.

Kari Bienert, From the Beginning, oil on canvas 70.8″ x 17.3″.

Kari states, “Painting is my dreamtime and has been my passion for over 20 years. Colours come together to form language and shape from my intense engagement with an unconscious world. I am fascinated by the endless revolving rhythms, patterns, and notes found in nature and technology. Primarily I am drawn to relationships and the interconnectedness we all share.”

She continues, “Colours and shapes are universal and form a kind of unspoken language that can be interpreted on an energetic level. It is here that I find an evolution, a growing and moving onwards, a shift which directly affects the tapestry of relationships around me.”

Kari Bienert, Decisions, oil on canvas, 47″ x 47″

Kari’s use of both organic shapes and pixelated forms serve as references to living organisms as well as the world of technology. These patterns cohabitate in harmony, often superimposed upon the other, to create a reverie of unpredictable movement and transparent effects. She describes her painting as “a meditation in colour.” Her painting process is a slow meditation immersed in music.

Kari Bienert, The Never Ending Children’s Path, oil on canvas, 56″ x 70.8″.

The artist brings an extensive mastery of color theory, innate sense of rhythm, and compositional elements to each painting. As an abstract painter she is an optical illusionist whose art defies spacial limitations. Her art is visual poetry bursting forth with relentless energetic expression.

Indeed, Kari has developed her own visual vocabulary and inimitable style. With utmost proficiency she invites us to view the world as a magical, fluid and invigorating panorama. Through her paintings we experience our universe with a new expansive and compelling perspective.

Banner image: Detail of Time Works, oil on canvas, 144 x 108.

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