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Tony Karp, a local Virginia artist, is pleased to announce an exhibit of his work at his gallery in Haymarket, Virginia

Each page of this web exhibit represents one room in the artist's gallery.

Viewings at the artist's gallery are by appointment only. Please call 703-753-7811.

Here's a catalog of the work in the artist's dining room gallery

This is also known as the "Patternism gallery" as all of the works here use this technique. In Patternism, the subject is broken down into patterns, the way that the Pointillist artists broke their images down into dots. Patternism is more general and is done in a number of different way, as can be seem in this gallery.

To view these works properly, move back, away from the picture and you will see the original subject.

Metropolis

This is a tribute to Fritz Lang's robot in the movie Metropolis.

This image was created in a Postscript drawing program, where you can work with circles and squares and lines and gradient tones. I added the red outlines for emphasis. After the final result is achieved, it gets translated back to a bitmap so that it can be printed or displayed.

Print Size: 17 x 17 inches

Print Price: $130

Picasso meets Frank Lloyd Wright

This is a Roman face. To the left, something reminiscent of Picasso. To right, the face becomes lines that remind me of the decorative touches of Frank Lloyd Wright.

I don't keep notes, so the process for a picture like this is lost, and it can't be duplicated. It's partly from laziness, and an unwillingness to accumulate a lot of notes. But there's a third, and even stronger reason. When I do an effect like this, I will just use it on one or two pictures, then move on. I don't want to be known for a particular special effect or for a particular series of pictures.

Another photographer once accused me of not having a distinctive style to my work. It was meant as a criticism. I took it as a compliment.

Print Size: 17 x 20 inches

Print Price: $150

Sorrow

Print Size: 17 x 21 inches

Print Price: $160

Portrait in shades of brown

This began as a sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum.

This image illustrates the concept of "Patternism." The original picture is reduced to a set of patterns, in this case, glowing squares in different shades of brown.

Up close, it looks like an abstract image.

To view this picture properly, stand back fifteen feet or so, until you can see the details emerge.

Print Size: 17 x 23 inches

Print Price: $180

Illusion

This image is one of my favorites. The effect of pieces of differently-toned paper floating above the canvas. Beneath the paper, soft shadows give a feeling of depth.

When I showed a print of this image to the owner of a gallery along the Place de Vosges in Paris, he reached over and touched the print, so effective was the three dimensional look.

Print Size: 17 x 19 inches

Print Price: $150

Portrait in small mosaic tiles

This is Patternism, a technique combining of sub-patterns that together create an image.

There are many colors in this image and therefore many sub-patterns that combine to make the whole. Perhaps you can see a mouth, and a nose and maybe a chin. Whether near of far you can tell it is an image of a shape that you recognize.

Now move back from the picture and you will see that you are looking at a face. The face is actually a statue in a museum.

Print Size: 17 x 23 inches

Print Price: $180