\u201cI\u2019ve been drawing and painting since before I could speak, really,\u201d artist K. Nari says. \u201cBack then, a set of crayons for Christmas was a really good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nari, born in Seoul, South Korea, can\u2019t remember a time when she wasn\u2019t studying or making art. \u201cI started with drawing and watercolor classes, and in middle school I learned gouache and oil painting. I even went to art classes on Saturdays. I wanted to learn it all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nari\u2019s family moved to Los Angeles when she was 11, where her arts education continued. In college, she studied drawing. She wanted to illustrate children\u2019s books, but instead launched a successful freelance career as an editorial illustrator at local magazines. In 2012, she took a break to start a family and to care for her ailing mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was frustrating,\u201d she says of that time. \u201cI love my sons, but there was no time to do art. I kept telling myself, \u2018You will get back to it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She did. After relocating to Scottsdale four years ago, she made a name for herself as a fine artist whose abstract acrylic paintings were quickly in demand, especially by local interior designers. Her K. Nari Art Studio in downtown Scottsdale is crowded with surrealist florals and mixed-media landscapes, vibrant with color and texture. Wood panels, sheets of metal and round mirrors are her preferred canvases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A recent exhibition of her work at Red Dot Miami has got Nari thinking about more public exhibits.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve got my eye on three Scottsdale galleries I\u2019d like to work with,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cGallery shows are going to be my next thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve been drawing and painting since before I could speak, really,\u201d artist K. Nari says. \u201cBack then, a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":472845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-472844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115786045542299455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}