Karen Kilimnik’s small-scale paintings and drawings are suffused with her own imaginative ideas and draw viewers into a world of grandeur, humor, and fantasy. Scenes of pastoral landscapes, elven forests, castle exteriors, figures, and horses give the viewer a direct encounter with the unguarded verve of Kilimnik’s wit and her engagement with history, always balanced by her assured sense of color and form.
cats playing in the snow, Siberia
2020
Water soluble oil color on canvas
Image 20.5 x 25.5 cm / 8 x 10 in
Frame 29 x 34 x 5 cm / 11 3/8 x 13 3/8 x 2 in
© Karen Kilimnik
An 18th century costume with silk bow and lace
2016
Pastel on ingres paper
Sheet 32 x 24 cm / 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
Frame 44.5 x 37 x 4 cm / 17 1/2 x 14 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
© Karen Kilimnik
The necklace
2016
Pastel on ingres paper
Sheet 32 x 24 cm / 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
Frame 44.5 x 37 x 4 cm / 17 1/2 x 14 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
© Karen Kilimnik
tiny leaping for joy
2013
Water soluble oil color on canvas
51.5 x 61.5 cm / 20 1/4 x 24 1/8 in
© Karen Kilimnik
the imagined folly library
2013
Water soluble oil color on canvas
40.5 x 51 cm / 16 x 20 in
© Karen Kilimnik
Villeroy & Boch 1748
View of Italy, 1547 from Fleurance porcelaine plate
2013
Water soluble oil color on canvas
ø 25.5 cm / ø 10 in
© Karen Kilimnik
the fairie Queens Sheep in the woods
2012
Water soluble oil color on canvas
76 x 61 x 2 cm / 30 x 24 x 3/4 in
© Karen Kilimnik
Sleeping Beauty and friends
2007
Theatre curtain, curtain frame, three chairs (after Marijnski theater chairs)
Duration of the film 37 min. 10 sec.
Edition of 4 + 1 AP
© Karen Kilimnik
Vodka cocktails at the Russian Tea Room Ivan + Rudy
2004
Water soluble oil colour, glitter, archival glue on canvas, framed
Frame 76 x 66 x 9 cm / 29 7/8 x 26 x 3 1/2 in
© Karen Kilimnik
A Major Romance
1998
Crayon on paper
Sheet 66 x 90 cm / 26 x 35 1/2 in
Frame 91.5 x 114 x 4.5 cm / 36 x 44 7/8 x 1 3/4 in
© Karen Kilimnik
the elven Queen - Esmeralda (part of Bewitched family)
1986
Pastel on paper
Sheet 61 x 45.5 cm / 24 x 18 in
Frame 63.5 x 79 x 3 cm / 25 x 31 1/8 x 1 1/8 in
© Karen Kilimnik
Turf
1986
Crayon on paper
Frame 83 x 98 x 4 cm / 32 5/8 x 38 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
Sheet 58.5 x 73.5 cm / 23 x 28 7/8 in
© Karen Kilimnik
