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Elizabeth
oil on panel
7" x 5"
2008
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Acrylic on paper
12" x 12"
2016
gabel karsten oil painting sink still lives handmade austin fine art
oil on panel
7" x 5"
2010
gabel karsten oil painting handmade austin texas artist
oil on panel
6" x 6"
gabel karsten oil painting sink still lives handmade austin fine art
oil on panel
6" x 6"
2006
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
5" X 7"
2007
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
6" x 6"
2007
gabel karsten oil painting handmade austin texas artist
oil on canvas
12" x 12"
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
5" x 5"
2007
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
8" X 8"
2005
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
7" X 5"
2006
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil painting sink
oil on panel
11 1/2" X 26 1/2 "
2006
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
6" x 6"
2007
old sink, original oil painting, portrait, drain and a sponge
oil on panel
6" x 6"
2006
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
6" x 6"
2006
gabel karsten oil painting sink still lives handmade austin fine art
oil on panel
12" X 12"
2006
gabel karsten kokinda fine art oil paintings sinks everyday images
oil on panel
6" X 8"
2006
Untitled (Mig)
oil on panel
12" X 12"
2003
fine art oil painting gabel karsten kokinda sinks still life realistic
oil on panel
10 " X 12"
2003
bethany
oil
5" x 5"
2007
untitled
oil on panel
10" X 11"
1999
the first elizabeth
acylic on panel
20" X 16"
1997
Paris on top
oil on canvas
20" X 16"
1997
Kitchen
acylic on panel
24" X 24"
1997
amy
oil on panel
16" X 20"
1997
gabel karsten kokinda fine art paintings sinks everyday images handmade austin women
acylic on panel
20" X 16"
1997

I think of my sink paintings both as portraits and as still lifes.

Nearly all the sinks belong in some way to people I know. With color, painting style, and consideration of the objects that adorn the sinks’ edges, I try to create a portrait that reveals a feeling I have about each sink’s owner. Bathroom sinks are especially revealing. They exist within an intimate and personal space, one in which we are often alone and completely ourselves. Like a mirror, I imagine these sinks to reflect some of their owner’s inner workings. Other, unknown sinks are ones I have come across in my travels. In painting these sinks I try to capture a mood I experienced at that particular place or my state of mind at the time of painting.

As still lifes, I want my work to draw attention to the beauty I see in these familiar objects that we encounter daily - the way the light falls into the basin, the shapes of the faucets and the shadows they cast, the folds of a towel, a crumpled toothpaste tube.

I use photographs I take as reference. It is important to me to capture images exactly as I find them. To disturb them would be to alter the story.