Karen Joubert Cordier

Who is Karen Joubert Cordier?

Karen Joubert-Cordier is a French-American artist born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 29 August 1954. Upon completion of her studies at the Academy Charpentier in Paris, she was counseled by a famous art dealer Daniel Cordier. Her first show was a great success at the Gallery Beaubourg in Paris; followed by a permanent exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Museum.

Joubert-Cordier's work is very closed to her heart. At a younger age, she was fascinated by Caesar's garden and it was then that she decided to paint for the first time. It was also this garden that has inspired her to develop the vegetation series. She began to paint the signature gigantic imaginary forest and develop this research for over 20 years. Recently, her artwork has evolved into a series of narration figurative involving more comic elements mixed with Pop art. Recalling her childhood often spent abroad, where her father was a Chief Purser of the liner "France", she is widely traveled and has crossed the Atlantic Ocean 49 times. She has met legendary people, including Coco Chanel, Charlie Chaplin, and even the King of Belgium Leopold.

As the famous art critic Bernard Lamarche Vadel has described Joubert-Cordier's work: "pointillism, surrealism, all-over expressionism, all the principles of the great moments of the Twentieth Century pulled together". Joubert-Cordier has embraced the surrealist and disturbing side of Dalí, the colours of Le Douanier Rousseau, the technique of Arcimboldo and the modernity of Robert Combas. Many Joubert-Cordier's paintings are now collected and showcased in national museums, including the Art Modern Museum in Toulouse and in the hands of prestigious international collectors, including the former French Prime Minister, Jean-Francois Girard, famous entertainer Elton John, and the Rockefeller Foundation.