Karen is a versatile, mixed-media artist with a passion for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Utilizing photography, drawing, and assemblage techniques, Karen’s most recent work combines commonly used items and unusual found objects with fabrics, paints, and myriad other materials to create curious sculptures, wall art, and jewelry.
Fascinated by the innumerable ways texture, pattern, color, light, sound, and motion interact in nature, Karen draws upon the imagery she observes daily to express imaginative work that ranges from simple and straightforward to wildly complex and bizarre.
Over the years, Karen has pursued a wide spectrum of creative endeavors ranging from graphic design, art metal, and ceramics, to music, writing, filmmaking, and dance. Her educational and professional experiences are just as varied—schooled in fine art, anthropology, and geography, she’s worked as a ski instructor, barn painter, pig farmer, cartographer, sales manager, event de