Karin Schaefer

Karin Schaefer's new body of work is intimate, yet imagines distant spaces, in and out of time, unresolved, with unclear perspective, and ambiguous light sources. With prismatic color, veils of translucent paint, and marks that read as soft threads these paintings expand on the lineage of male dominated hard edge painting, a queer feminist reinterpretation where like history itself, revisions and changes are necessary and made visible.

The paintings pose questions about literal and phenomenal transparency. The work does not leave instructions, but opens up the possibility of inhabiting these spaces on new reimagined terms, allowing for multiple access points.   

Schaefer lives and works in the Berkshires.