Karen LaMonte is a 2005 Second Place recipient of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. A look at her recent museum acquisitions, an upcoming exhibition, and where the work has traveled over the past year.
OPENING SOON
Interventions Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee March 14 through May 31, 2026
Fourteen works, spanning several series and materials, will be installed in the period rooms of the historic Cheekwood mansion.
NEW PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Added Nocturne 2 (white bronze) and Chado (cast glass) to their collection.
Iowa State University Museums, Ames, Iowa Added Kabuki (cast iron), joining Nocturne 5 (cast glass) already in the collection.
South Florida PBS, Cornelia T. Bailey Cultural Arts Center Acquired Hanako (bronze), installed over a water feature at their newly opened cultural arts center.
U.S. Embassy Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro After several years of work, Cumulus (marble) has been completed and installed at its permanent home.
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana Specimen VI: Gluttony (blown glass) was gifted to the museum, the sixth of the Seven Deadly Sins series to enter a public collection.
IN THE STUDIO
Currently learning to cast small-scale clouds in preparation for a monumental iron sculpture, a process that has been more than a year in development.
