A native Californian, Karen Andrews has had a notable career as a fashion illustrator and art director starting with Weinstocks Department Store right out of high school. While working throughout the country, Andrews studied illustration and fine art at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts in New York, the Art Center in Los Angeles and the Academy of Art in San Francis
...see more »co. Her worked in couturier fashion with I. Magnin, Gimbals East, Nordstrom's and Bullocks and later in art direction for Joseph Magnin, Macy's and the Sharper Image. The artist's years of fashion illustration and art direction earned her acclaim from several institutions, including the Society of Illustrators, the San Francisco Society of Illustrators, and the Beverly Center in Beverly Hills, California. During the past few years, Andrews has begun making lithographs, etchings, monotypes and giclees of fashion-related images and her work has been widely collected. She resides in Oakland, California.« see less
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