Karis Chambers is an artist, designer and educator located in Oklahoma City. They received their BFA from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Karis has exhibited figural works across the U.S. and Canada. They are currently an arts worker with the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and a

co-founder of cow-boys collab.

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My work is about what it feels like to be alive in a body. I paint flesh as both a physical material and an emotional language. Through saturated color and distorted anatomy, I look for the place where the human form starts to fall apart and become something unfamiliar.

Bodies are containers for everything we are: meat full of memory holding both magnificence and decay. In painting, I explore this strange space and invite others to see themselves in it with me.