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American art dealer
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Merry Akane Karnowsky is a Los Angeles art dealer and gallerist of Japanese and Polish-German ancestry. Karnowsky was born in Eastern Washington State and educated at Pitzer College - Claremont, California. In 1997, he opened The Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles, California, and became another figure in the underground "Lowbrow (art movement)," pop surrealism, and Street Art scene, with exhibitions by Shepard Fairey, Camille Rose Garcia, Mercedes Helnwein and Todd Schorr.