KARIN BRUCKNER

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Printmaking became a focus in Karin Bruckner’s work in 2006. She found the medium a congenial way of creating art given her professional background in architecture. Its unique combination of creative flow and process requires a structured, sequenced way of thinking in layers, shapes and colors not unlike architectural plans. Printmaking has allowed the Artist to gradually make her way from the strictures of architecture to a looser form of creative expression, while engaging all of her artistic and design skills. Over the years, constant experimentation has propelled Bruckner’s unique monotypes from a graphic into a more painterly direction, thoroughly embedded and complexly layered visual landscapes of considerable depth. Bruckner’s work is process driven, responding to the materials and techniques at hand, resulting in a widely varied yet distinctive portfolio. It led Bruckner to a consummate Work on Paper practice that encompasses repurposing and engages paper spatially - from small intimate works to larger scale explorations. At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the work is an attempt to push media to their limits, straddling the lines between printmaking, drawing, painting, collage, installation and sculpture in an authentically mixed media way. Printmaking carries with it the element of surprise and the inevitability of the “happy accident” which Bruckner credits for immensely expanding her artistic sensibilities. The work evolves and resides in the space created by Pull and Push. 

BIO

Born in Switzerland, Karin Bruckner was educated in Switzerland, Germany and the United States. She holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Technical University in Munich and a Master’s of Science in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in New York.

Bruckner came to Printmaking through Architecture after working in the offices of Richard Meier & Partners and Philip Johnson Architects. Due to a structure not unlike Architecture's layers in space, Printmaking offered a unique way of reconnecting Bruckner to her life-long passion of creating art.  Over the years, constant experimentation has propelled Bruckner’s unique two-dimensional works on paper into the third dimension. She achieves thoroughly embedded and complexly layered visual landscapes of considerable depth.

Bruckner continues to exhibit and sell her work worldwide and is part of numerous private and public collections, among them the US Department of State and Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection.  She has had a number of solo, two and three person shows over the last few years. Karin is a represented artist with Susan Eley Fine Art In New York City and Hudson, NY as well as Carter Burden Gallery, a part of the Carter Burden Network in New York, where she also serves as a Teaching Artist for Printmaking.

Her work can be found on Artsy and other online platforms.