LOT 20: Karen Lasserre

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Karen Lasserre is a South African artist who lives and works in Pretoria. She is mostly self-taught but two years mentorship at Pro-Arte School moulded her greatly. Lasserre started painting professionally in 1997 with her first solo exhibition at Karen McKerron Gallery.

In 2002 and 2003 she studied Visual Arts at Unisa, Pretoria, and in 2001, 2003 and 2008 respectively, she stayed and worked for two months at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Between 1997 and 2009 Lasserre presented solo exhibitions at Karen McKerron Gallery, Bryanston, Johannesburg, Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town, the Arts Association, Pretoria, Voir Gallery, Brooklyn, Pretoria, Alliance Française, Johannesburg, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria and Dawid’s Choice Gallery, Sandton, Johannesburg. She participated in group exhibitions at at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, The Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, the KKNK, and Art Lovers 1932, Pretoria.

In 2018, after a long sabbatical, Lasserre’s work took a new form and she started painting only abstracts filled with abundance, colour and generosity of spirit, simply experiencing the sheer joy of painting and feeling alive.

Lasserre’s work is represented in Absa Bank and GTS corporate collections, and in private collections in Belgium, England, France, Holland, Germany, South Africa, Japan and the U.S.A.