SHORT BIO

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Mitchell Karas is a New England artist who is known for his landscapes and abstract compositions in oil and mixed-media assemblages.  He was born in New Haven, Connecticut and has lived and worked in Boston for most of his life.  Karas is mostly self-taught and has studied with John Clayton, Heather Bruce and Lois Griffel in Provincetown, MA under the umbrella of the Provincetown School of Art.

 

Over the last ten years, his work has predominantly been shown and sold in galleries in South Boston, the emerging Boston South End and the Provincetown Art Museum.

 

Karas concerns himself with the displacement of time and place to find new environments and a sense of control where escapes to from the daily chaos and drudgery that can so easily dominate our existence and thinking.  Audiences are invited to enter these realms to discover their own experiences within the context of his art such sanctuaries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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