Karin Schaefer (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.) has an interdisciplinary practice that includes installation, painting, drawing and printmaking.
Schaefer’s work challenges the binaries of long-established categories abstraction/representation, conceptual/concrete, spiritual/material. She blurs the lines between hard-edged abstraction and an illusion of space works to make the unseen visible and integrates queer aesthetics and spirituality. Drawing inspiration from her meditation practice decades of daily drawings are the source material for her paintings and works on paper.
Schaefer received her BFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work at Barbican Art Galleries, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ; University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY; Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY; Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY; Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA. Grants and Residencies include Josef and Anni Albers Foundation; artist-in-residence LEF Foundation; Isamu Noguchi artist-in-residence.
Selected Press
Catalogues & Books
2018 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region
Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
Brooklyn Interiors
Women in Clothes
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970