Karin Schaefer — Blood Moon, 2022

Karin Schaefer (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and installation. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and has since built a body of work recognized for luminously layered painting surfaces and intricately detailed drawings. Schaefer’s work engages with the concept of continuum and the ever changing intersection of different timescales in history, art, and the natural world. 

Her career includes residencies at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the Isamu Noguchi Museum, and her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Barbican Art Galleries in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, the University Art Museum (SUNY Albany), and Sears-Peyton Gallery, NY. She currently lives and works between Brooklyn, New York, and South Egremont, Massachusetts.

Drawing inspiration from a decades-long daily meditation practice, Schaefer creates a small drawing each day that serves as the starting point for her paintings. Her practice navigates thresholds between what is visible and what remains unseen, folding private, spiritual, and imaginal spaces into the physical field of the painting. These works operate as portals, inviting the viewer into a space of active contemplation.

60" X 40"