"Watching Dr. Karen Dover move around her solo art exhibit in the vast stone-walled gallery at Almonte’s Mississippi Valley Textile Museum is like trying to track a sparrow in a field of wildflowers.
She moves quickly, with precise intentional gestures, first chatting with one guest, chirping merrily at a bon mot from another. Her eyes are bright, inquisitive, and observant; her energy vibrant but self-contained. Today, her feathers are a chic ensemble and designer shoes.
If her bird-like energy seems to be at a peak, it’s with good reason...."
- Julie Buen on Dr. Karen Dover in Fifty-Five Plus Magazine's Beauty and Light feature
Karen joined Rogers TV host Derick Fage on Daytime Ottawa to speak about the upcoming show, Karen & Co. at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, while they had a little fun together with a canvas.
""If you wish to go fast, go it alone. If you wish to go far, go it together,“ an old African proverb, embodies the philosophy of this exhibition.
On the heels of a well-received and very successful solo art show last April, I was in the preliminary phases of imagining my next, and on a whim decided to invite a few artist friends to share the light. These talents have particular challenges finding appropriate venues to display their work, due in part to the sheer size and scope, and I could easily envision the wonderful “conversations” my large modern paintings and ceramic pieces would enjoy with Jack Stekelenburg’s brilliantly-conceived patinated metalwork creations and Chaka Chikodzi’s alluring Zimbabwe-stone sculptures, and so it was…"
- Karen Dover on Karen & Co. in theHumm
"Watching Dr. Karen Dover move around her solo art exhibit in the vast stone-walled gallery at Almonte’s Mississippi Valley Textile Museum is like trying to track a sparrow in a field of wildflowers.
She moves quickly, with precise intentional gestures, first chatting with one guest, chirping merrily at a bon mot from another. Her eyes are bright, inquisitive, and observant; her energy vibrant but self-contained. Today, her feathers are a chic ensemble and designer shoes."