Karem LaMonte's Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery served as the theme for the 2010 ARTrageous benefit, an annual gala at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Karen LaMonte received a Fulbright grant to pursue glass making in the Czech Republic, where she studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. It was in Prague that she created her first large-scale sculpture.
In addition to its glass making industry, the Czech Republic is well known for metallurgy and machinery, as well mineral resources.
Early in her art career, Karen LaMonte practiced glass blowing, a familiar technique in which molten glass is blown and shaped. She later transitioned to glass casting, a process in which molten glass hardens inside of a mold. She used the latter technique to create Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery.
Karen LaMonte's work has been shown in museums across the U.S. and abroad, including the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Czech Museum of Fine Art in Prague. The Smithsonian American Art Museum acquired Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery in the fall of 2009.
LaMonte was awarded the Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. She studied the kimono as part of social language.
A review of the 2007 show "Shattering Glass: New Perspectives" at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York. The show featured the work of Karen Lamonte and other glass artists, including Richard Klein and Josiah McElheny.
Contemporary artist Josiah McElheny's work also utilizes glass. The artist combines handmade glass objects, photographs, and music, which he uses to address ideas of meaning and memory.
In February 26th 2010, leading contemporary glass artist Karen LaMonte (b.
1967) creator of the American Art Museum most recent acquisition "Reclining
Dress Impression with Drapery" talked about her work at the museum's McEvoy
auditorium. A 1999 Fulbright scholarship allowed Karen LaMonte to transform
her work. She pursued her interest in large-scale glass casting with Zdeněk
Lhotský at the renowned Studio Pelechov, north of Prague. During the past
decade, LaMonte has used this experience to develop a remarkable series of
life-size cast glass dresses—works so technically complex that they can
only be crafted at Lhotský’s studio, one of the world’s largest and most
advanced centers for glass casting.
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