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Karel Funk

Karel Funk (Born 1971) is active/lives in Manitoba, New York / Canada.  Karel Funk is known for Hyper-real backsides of heavily clothed figures.

"Karel Funk," by Diane Solway, W Magazine, March 1, 2010

Anyone who has ever ridden the New York subway at rush hour knows the feeling of being pressed so close to your fellow commuters that you can see their every pore, shaving nick and flaking follicle. To artist Karel Funk, newly arrived in Manhattan from his native Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 2001, that proximity to strangers on a train proved overwhelming at first—then career changing. He’d been toying with suburban angst in his paintings but felt that route was already well traveled by others. In urban voyeurism, however, he knew he had found his ideal subject.

“I was fascinated by how this boundary of personal space completely disappeared on the subway,” Funk recalls by phone from his home in Winnipeg, where he returned in 2003 and works in a studio in the basement of his house. “You could see details of somebody’s ear or neck that you’d never observe just socializing with friends because there’s this boundary we   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6661 characters.]  Artist bio

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