Karen Joan Topping

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Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Artist
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
Introduction	is an emerging artist working in multi-media living in Washington DC. With an MFA from The University Of The Arts and a BFA from American University, she has shown her work in many regional group exhibitions. For Karen Joan Topping, things such as toys and candy are the tools and materials for the making of art. She creates installations, sculptures and video projections engaging in a spirit of play and exploration that are inquiries into attention, emotion and judgment as much as they are investigations of aesthetic practices. By using seductive and nostalgic objects from childhood, she examines how fantasy, memory, hope and anxiety can be explored in space and time as well as symbol and form.
Interests	Art, renovating my 1940's apartment in conjunction with dumpster diving, my art, live music, local music, local art, local galleries-especially non-profits, Hungry For Music and DCAC-local non-profits
Favorite Movies	Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gigi, Chinatown, Shadows, American in Paris, Goodfella's
Favorite Music	The Grandsons, Spottiswoode & His Enemies, Tim Bracken Complex, Joss, Last Train Home, Karl Straub, Joe Henry
Favorite Books	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Anything by Mark Twain, Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland, Snowcrash by Neal Stephensen