ARTIST STATEMENT<\/p>\n
KARLA KUYACA<\/p>\n
Contact: 505-577-7566<\/strong><\/p>\n Karla Kuyaca\u00a0 is a Photographer with a definitively unique eye. The daughter of a known California artist, (Charles Surendorf, \u201cWho\u2019s Who in American Art.\u201d)\u00a0 Karla has had her first \u201cfifteen minutes of Fame\u201d while in her twenties, when living NYC during the early 1960\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 As innovator of found object jewelry she caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who sent her to the NY Harold Tribune,\u00a0 Leo Castelli, Ivan Karp, \u201cProbably the best jewelry in America.\u201d Alan Stone, Vogue Magazine and the American Craftmen\u2019s Galley with whom she exhibited and published.<\/p>\n Karla began photo journaling during this period in NYC, with the purchase of\u00a0a pre-war Leica.\u00a0 She has been in love with the fresh capture of moments which\u00a0is inherent in photo Journalism, ever since then.\u00a0She has switched, by necessity, to the digital image, with a strong intention to explore its artistic possibilities while using no photo manipulation technique at all.<\/p>\n Her first one-man show of photographs was hung at City Lights Bookstore at the\u00a0invitation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1968. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Her most recent solo show was in NYC, at Chinatown Soup, for Chinese New Year 2020. This was part of the series, “Alice In Chinatown.”<\/p>\n A most recently completed series, \u201cHaute Graffiti,\u201d\u00a0 includes Graffiti from around the Western United States, through the perspective of modern Abstract Expressionism.<\/p>\n Her current, ongoing series, “Alice In Chinatown,” is of intriguing, often reflective, shots into the shop windows of many US Chinatowns, is also truly poetic imagery. This series has been called \u201c A Mesmerizing, purely fantastic photojournalism\u201d.<\/p>\n Karla was raised in San Francisco, California, and makes her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she has built an adobe home by herself with help from friends from\u00a0local Pueblos.<\/p>\n Asked what keeps her passion for photography sustained, Karla says \u201cLife is even better when you can return to what fascinates you.\u00a0\u00a0 So photograph it.\u00a0 When you never get tired of looking at a picture\u2026Then you know you have got good art work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ARTIST STATEMENT KARLA KUYACA Contact: 505-577-7566 Karla Kuyaca\u00a0 is a Photographer with a definitively unique eye. Her perspective is artistically sophisticated and often has a distinct playfulness. The daughter of a known California artist, (Charles Surendorf, \u201cWho\u2019s Who in American Art.\u201d)\u00a0 Karla has had her first \u201cfifteen minutes of Fame\u201d while in her twenties, when living NYC during the early 1960\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 As innovator of found object jewelry she caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who sent her to the NY Harold Tribune,\u00a0 Leo Castelli, Ivan Karp, \u201cProbably the best jewelry in America.\u201d Alan Stone, Vogue Magazine and the American Craftmen\u2019s Galley with whom she exhibited and published. Karla began photo journaling during this period in NYC, with the purchase of\u00a0a pre-war Leica.\u00a0 She has been in love with the fresh capture of moments which\u00a0is inherent in photo Journalism, ever since then.\u00a0She has switched, by necessity, to the digital image, with..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99251"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99555,"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99251\/revisions\/99555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlakuyaca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h2>\n
\nHer perspective is artistically sophisticated and often has a distinct
\nplayfulness.<\/p>\n