Karen Ruth Karlsson is a painter and printmaker living and working on the desert fringes of Los Angeles. Her work aims to bring structure and order to a chaotic world. Growing up within the grid that is New York City informs her geometric abstractions rendered in layers of wax, resin and pigment; they reflect the tension between humans and nature, structure and function, revealing a world built on mathematical shapes that, regardless of absolutes, never quite feels defined.
Karlsson's encaustic paintings, monoprints, collagraphs, and mixed media works have been curated into group and solo exhibits across the country and can be found in the permanent collection of the The Chaffey Community Museum of Art. Her monoprint, Sacred Grounds, was selected as album cover art by award-winning Native American flutist Steven Rushingwind.
Karlsson's encaustic paintings, monoprints, collagraphs, and mixed media works have been curated into group and solo exhibits across the country and can be found in the permanent collection of the The Chaffey Community Museum of Art. Her monoprint, Sacred Grounds, was selected as album cover art by award-winning Native American flutist Steven Rushingwind.