I am and Artist, Educator, Designer and Recovering Architect. As a maker of things, I am fascinated by the infinite possibilities of things around me, all matter natural, manmade or found. They call out to me to play and look and do. By seeing what I have in front of me I investigate what I can do with it. A dialogue develops, a mark is made and it takes me somewhere. The discovery in the process excites me and I aim to share the joy with the work I make. If I can spark someone’s imagination and entice them to join the joy by visually traveling into the work or by inspiring them to make their own, my mission is complete. Think and see outside the box, turn things inside out, upside down and sideways. Let your imagination run wild and run into that moment of wow.
Karin Bruckner’s work is process driven, an ongoing investigation into making marks and layering. Each work on paper becomes a unique piece responding to the materials and techniques at hand, resulting in a widely varied yet distinctive portfolio.
At the core of the dialogue between the Artist and her work is an attempt to push the medium of printmaking to a realm beyond the Print. The Print or its components serve as a catalysts into further exploration, straddling the lines between printmaking, drawing, painting and collage in an authentically mixed media way with the true sensibilities of a layerist. The spring board printmaking presents carries with it the element of surprise and the inevitability of the “happy accident” which Karin credits for immensely expanding her growth as an Artistic. The work evolves and resides in the space created by Pull and Push.
Karin Bruckner was born in Switzerland and received her education in Switzerland, Germany and the United States. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Technical University in Munich and a Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in New York, where she has lived since 1988 and raised two children. After working as an architect for Richard Meier & Partners and Philip Johnson Architects in NY she returned to her passion for art. Since 2009 she has participated in a variety of exhibitions nationally and internationally and her work has sold and is in private collections worldwide.
Karin is a represented artist at Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery, NY Susan Eley Fine Art www.susaneleyfineart.com and the Carter Burden Gallery, www.carterburdengallery.org.
Midoma Gallery Online fabcollective.midoma.com features selected works and she can be found on Artsy and 1stdibs. Her work has been featured by West Elm, Chilewich and Alexa Hampton Interiors, as well as other online venues such as The Woolfer, Art Crasher, Fresh Rag, Refinery 29, the UGallery blog, as well as the Printsy blog on Etsy. She was the first featured artist on the twitterartexhibit blog.
Karin Bruckner is a member of the New York Artists Circle https://nyartistscircle.com/artists/karin-bruckner and a teaching Artist at Carter Burden Network in NYC.