KAAREN HIRSCHOWITZ ENGEL
150 2nd Avenue South, #103
Nashville, Tennessee 37201
(615) 943-1557
kaaren@kaarenengel.com
www.kaarenengel.com
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Eagle Industries, Bowling Green, KY
Gilda’s Club of Nashville, Nashville, TN
Gould Turner Architects, Nashville, TN
Houchens Industries, Bowling Green, KY
Inner Design Studio, Brentwood, TN
Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Mercy Ministries, Nashville, TN
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Nashville, TN
Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
Nancy Hayden Architects, Nashville, TN
North Central Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, TX
Renaissance Miami Biscayne Bay Hotel, Miami, FL
2009
“Paper in Motion” solo show,Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
“Works on Paper 2009”, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
“CONCRETE/prayers, Chattanooga, TN and Nashville, TN
“Art on Paper 2009”, Maryland Federation of Art, Bethesda, MD
“ArtScape”, solo installation, Vol State Community College, TN
First Unitarian Universalist Church, solo installation, Nashville, TN
Nashville Convention Center, solo installation, Nashville, TN
West End Synagogue, solo installation, Nashville, TN
2008
Caught in the Act
national juried competition, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL
Sacred Text
solo show, Studio B Gallery, Nashville, TN
ArtWeb
solo public art installation, Arcade Building, Nashville, TN
Works with Words
juried show, Main Gallery, Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
2007
Birds & Desserts
threesquared gallery, Nashville, TN
InSIDEoutSIDE
solo show, Twist Gallery, Nashville, TN
The Five Senses
national juried competition, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL
Metro Nashville Arts Commission
MNAC Gallery, Nashville, TN
Temple Arts Festival
Nashville, TN ( 2005 and 2006)
2006
Heart/Felt
solo show, Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, TN
29th Annual Art on Paper
national juried competition, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Celebration
solo show, Edgehill Studios, Nashville, TN
Art for Healing Gala
national juried competition, AVA at Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, TN
2005
Transforestation
solo show, Arts in the Airport, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
hirschowitz³
Art & Invention Gallery, Nashville, TN
2004
Divine Inspiration
solo show, Public Theatre of Kentucky, Bowling Green, KY
EYE-Candy
national juried competition, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Open Show All Media 2004
national juried competition, Arts & Culture Alliance, Knoxville, TN
2003
Holiday Art
Cornelia Arts Building, Chicago, IL (2004 & 2005)
ArtRageous 16
Art & Invention Gallery, Nashville, TN
affinity
21st Street Studios, Birmingham, AL
Dimensions 2003
national juried competition, Winston-Salem, NC
The Ties that Bind: Women and Collaboration in Art & Life
national juried competition
Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY
Breaking the Surface
solo show, Shainberg Gallery, Jewish Community Center, Memphis, TN
2002
15th Annual ARTstravaganza
national juried competition,
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Monarch Contemporary Art Center, Tenino, WA
From Africa to America
juried competition, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
2001
Small Packages
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN (2002 & 2003)
Squaring the Circl
solo show, March Gallery, Gordon JCC, Nashville, TN
Canvas Unplugged
juried competition, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN
SidebySide: a visual exchange between Belfast and Nashville
international invitational
Belfast City Hall and Belfast City Airport, Belfast, Ireland
Studio Tour
Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville (VAAN), Nashville, TN
Three in One – a show of collaborative and individual work
Filmhouse, Nashville, TN
2000
New Works
juried competition, ArtSynergy, Nashville, TN
2000 Renaissance Regional Art Exhibit
juried competition, Renaissance Center Visual Arts Gallery, Dickson, TN
Two Dimensional Invitational
juried competition, Finer Things Gallery, Nashville, TN
1999
Still Life with Women
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Pineapple Room, Nashville, TN
N4Art Group Show
Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery
Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
Rage against the objective
Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, TN 2008
painting workshop for teenagers
Harmonics – The Art of Collaboration
University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 2002
Lecture presented with Trish Tallon-Blanchard and Laura Young
The Collaborative Process
University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN 2004
Lecture and workshop presented with Trish Tallon-Blanchard and
Laura Young
“Though she most easily might be categorized as an abstract artist, she often blurs the lines between figuration, abstraction and written language, with a sincere, committed engagement underpinning everything she does.â€
– Jonathan Marx, “Words on Works,†The Tennessean, 2008“When Engel talks about “deconstructing†her paintings, she’s not kidding. Her sculptures are made from colorful, jagged, woven bits-and-pieces of her own paintings. For Inside/Outside, the artist’s latest show at Twist Gallery, Engel blows her swirling, nested forms up to mega-scale, remaking the intimate space into a fantastic environment that gallery-goers will have the chance to view from the inside out.†– Joe Nolan, “Critic’s Pick, “ Nashville Scene, 2007
“In a town where collaboration creates song, Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel collaborates with other fine artists to create emotion through paper and paint.†– Deanna Larson, “Collaborative Art is Three Times the Thrill,†Nashville City Paper 2005
” Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel’s paintings are inclined to be organic, free-flowing and with a different kind of energy that is infectious.” – James R. Nelson, The Birmingham News, 2003
Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel’s sculptures “seem to have an underlying kinetic potential, as though they might spring apart at the slightest disturbance of their delicately balanced structure.†– Jane Longshore, Black & White, 2003
…’Breaking the Surface: New Paintings by Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel’…thoughtful works that might well put you in a cosmic frame of mind. – Art-Throbs, The Commercial Appeal, February 28, 2003
Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel “endeavors to connect the natural with the infinite and in so doing achieve a spiritual revelation, both for her and the viewer.â€
-John W. Sparks, The Commercial Appeal, 2003