The following critics have also written about this artist: Frank Poper Milagros Bello Bélgica Rodríguez Carlos Silva Juan Carlos Palenzuela Katherine Chacón Roberto Guevara Graciana La Rocca María Elena Ramos Enrique Viloria Vera Federica Palomero

The Art of Karem Arrieta
By Víctor Guédez

Karem Arrieta takes the painting in its most explicit dimensions and descriptive aspects; however, she does not accommodate herself to a pleasant file, her formals definitions are dynamic; her technical structures are complex and its contents intensive.

The work of Karem Arrieta is not classic in an orthodox sense but neither is archaic. We cannot associate her work with a realistic fidelity or hyperrealism and would be difficult to include it in the parameters of surrealism. Her work is in imbrications where things conjugates, or a combination that promotes a mix of focus.

We could talk about a representative iconography inspired in a magic realism that settles in wonderful baroques. To consolidate those reaches, the artist recurs to testimonials references with strong biographical contacts and to daily scenes plenty of evocative significance. In a formal way, she retakes and validates the theme of portraits but without the intention of limiting the effort to a simple reproduction of characters, she goes towards resolutions of demanding plastic densities, enigmatic and expressive. She defines simultaneous flat surfaces that convert into suggested spaces in the same surface.

In this conjugation appear the characters, which were added, in different series in her evolution like "Self-Portraits", "Brothers", "Children Artists" and "My Children". These characters share the scene with backgrounds of serial animals which looks like stamped cloths. In other occasions the cloths are squared. In occasions appear archetype characters or classical cites which increase the interpretative challenges.

Karem's proposal is autobiographical, for that reason her resolutions are generally self-portraits, in some cases are these self-portraits are explicit meanwhile other are reflected in other characters, silent is other interesting ingredient, characters are silent, they do not talk, they do not want to.

Víctor Guédez