KAREN BARTONE, “TONDO ART: AN INTIMATE EXHIBITION OF MINIATURE PAINTINGS.

Founded in 1966, Middlesex Community College is part of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities System.

In the Niche:

Karen Bartone’s series of tondo paintings employ the traditional round panel format and the Italian Renaissance combination of oil paint and gold leaf.  Picturesque subjects of reflected water lilies, trees, sky and rippled water dislocate viewer’s sense of specificity as they are composed within closely cropped peephole perspectives.  The small scale and circular shapes here similarly reference telescopic and magnified slide compositions in as much as the direct landscapes they represent.

Bartone lives in Clinton, CT and holds an MFA from Western Connecticut State University and a BFA from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts.  See more of her work at http://karenbartone.com/Karen_Bartone/Home.html