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Karen Trask: AOPA’s first archive and retrospective online

9 June, 2025

The first website and archive created with the AOPA-Retrospective platform is now online. Karen Trask’s new retrospective website features 8 thematic galleries, which frame her oeuvre. It catalogs 184 artworks, spanning 1981 to present, each with photo documentation, full museological information, descriptions and statements, exhibition history and related publications. It features 24 of her most important exhibitions and has a complete CV which includes a bibliography of 136 publications, most with full text downloads.

Karen’s is the first website to be built on the AOPA-Retrospective platform (Artist Online Presence and Archiving). Web developer, art critic and art writer Don Goodes has been developing the platform for over 3 years. It is a dream tool for AOPA’s full-service production house, which collaborates with mid- to late-career artists to research and produce dynamic online catalogues-raisonnés.

Please visit the site and tell us what you think: karentrask.com

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