About The Artist

Karen was born and raised just outside of the Boston area. She has a degree in Art from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and has also attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston studying Textile Design, the Ludlow Craft School in Vermont studying Textile Design and was selected to attend the freshman art program at the Art Institute of Boston in her senior year of High School.

Growing up in an artistic family, art has been a natural part of her life. Her greatest influence and inspiration was from her father who was a brilliant painter, illustrator and self-taught musician.

Starting from middle school and through the next twenty-five years, Textile Design was the main focus of her art work. It has been a great fascination for her to re-invent uses of various mediums into a totally new and different technique.

Starting around l999, her glass technique came about by experimenting with glass cutting and trying to achieve unique images using conventional materials in unconventional ways.

Her technique creates and utilizes a unique use of mirror and glass. It has developed and evolved over the years giving the rigid yet sparkling substance of mirror the illusion of form, movement and dimension. The combination of depth and light from the mirror creates shadows, illumination and movement.