A reception honoring Karri Allrich. Respected artists Jonathan Earle, Maryalice Eizenberg, and Andrea Petitto will demonstrate oil painting. Questions are encouraged while viewers of all ages watch paintings come to life. Guests will also be treated to live music by Cape favorite Sarah Swain. Winter’s chill will be further diminished by libations and nibbles from Mary’s Fine Provisions.
The Addison Art Gallery first began representing Karri Allrich over 25 years ago. Grateful for her time with us and honoring her memory, Addison Art Gallery and Steve Allrich will donate a portion of the couple's sales to Cape Wellness Collaborative.
Allrich’s work is rooted in abstraction's poetry of shapes and color, inhabiting the space between perception and memory. Informed by her lifelong photography practice, her paintings capture the shifting light and flickering impressions that linger in reflection. Through her lens of experience, each painting became a language of presence, atmosphere, and emotion, inviting viewers into a contemplative dialogue where meaning unfolds gradually, resonating beyond the purely visual.
"While rooted in impressionism and influenced by Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Cassatt, Allrich’s semi-abstract style encourages viewers to interpret and engage with the paintings in their own personal way. Her use of rich colors and impasto brushstrokes convey energy and sense of movement in the landscape. In her still life pieces, flowers and fruit present an interplay of traditional form and abstraction, conveying place and mood with atmosphere and light. Allrich works in layers, building up surfaces with washes of thin paint, followed by thicker areas using a palette knife and other textural tools allowing discovery to influence the process of creating.” Chris White, Cape Cod Life
Her work can be found in prestigious collections including Nordstrom, Julia Child, Claire Murray Designs, Roger Horchow, Tower Records, Los Angeles and others.
Karri Allrich passed in December, 2025. She faced cancer the same way she faced everything else in her life, with courage, grace, humility and humor.
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