Press

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    In The Studio

    Interview from Winnipeg Free Press
    Jan, 2011

    Asher's photographs draw in viewers through her ability to capture the strange beauty in people and environments.
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    VC Talks With Karen Asher

    Interview from Visual Curiosity
    Feb, 2011

    VC interviews Winnipeg based photographer Karen Asher.

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    2010 Critics' Picks

    Profile from Akimbo
    Dec, 2010

    I love Karen Asher's photography. Her solo show of colour photographs last year was another Platform production.
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    No Cause For Concern

    Review from BlackFlash Magazine
    Aug, 2010

    Asher's photographs veer further from the photographic centre and instead roam freely, zigzagging around the fringes of her imagination. They point toward a fresh, exciting, and idiosyncratic voice on the crowded Canadian photographic landscape.
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    The Ping Pong Effect

    Profile from Border Crossings
    Mar, 2010

    Winnipeg photographer Karen Asher looks at life from both sides - the tough and the tender, the celebratory and the cautionary.
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    Picture Imperfect

    Interview from The National Post
    Feb, 2010

    Awkward silences and other uncomfortable moments are things we often try to forget. But Winnipeg artist Karen Asher strives to preserve those instants, turning them into surprisingly appealing photographic portraits. With a hometown show now on at Winnipeg's Platform Centre, Asher tells Leah Sandals about her mashups of gangling and gorgeous.

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    Karen Asher: Strange Days Indeed

    Exhibition preview from Canadian Art Online
    Jan, 2010

    Karen Asher’s portraits of strangers and acquaintances in the urban landscape of her hometown, Winnipeg, offer an unusual and unnerving intimacy between the viewer and her subjects.

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    The Strangeness Of Strangers

    Review from Uptown
    Jan, 2010

    As unlikely as it may seem, Asher uses her camera, usually a symbol of power and domination, to create trusting relationships with strangers, family, friends and everyone else. The result is a body of work that shows the photographer to be as vulnerable as her subjects.

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    Awkward Overtures

    Review from The Manitoban
    Jan, 2010

    Asher takes photography back to its natural, more difficult place to show us what we would see if we looked hard enough. Not abstracted, not made glossy, but face on.

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    Awkward Introductions

    Exhibition Essay from Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts
    Jan, 2010

    At first sight these images might seem like typical portraits. The subtlety is what is so striking. The awkward facial expressions. The awkward environments. The awkward poses. The awkward introductions.
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    Winnipeg

    Preview from Akimbo
    Jan, 2010

    Karen Asher is a recent art school graduate whose photographs at Platform Gallery have the intimacy of her teacher Larry Glawson’s pics, the raw truthfulness of David McMilllan, and the purist formality that I associate with both mentors.

  • Image accompanying Spotlight: Karen Asher: No Cause for Concern

    Spotlight: Karen Asher: No Cause for Concern

    Preview from The North Elevation
    Jan, 2010

    A sneak peek at Karen Asher's upcoming solo exhibition: No Cause For Concern. In this extraordinary collection of photographs, Asher accomplishes the uncommon feat of pushing realism into surrealism.

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    Canadian Art Preview

    Preview from Canadian Art Magazine
    Dec, 2009

    Asher’s striking, harshly lit portraits of people from her hometown manage to convey a remarkable intimacy in the midst of urban alienation.