Karen A Smith

Bucks County, Pennsylvania resident Karen A. Smith creates drawings and paintings in a variety of media. Using her daily life to inspire her art, Smith is interested in the spaces between objects, situations and conversations and what happens in those spaces. Her abstract images are intuitively inspired by nature and the mark making is spontaneous. Building up layers and then breaking through them to uncover and reveal certain clues and hints to life's puzzles.Smith makes many drawings and believes that we are all connected by the marks(drawing) that we make. Some drawings she makes are more careful and contain gradations to add softness and to help join opposites.
Karen believes that the process of creating art and the interaction/relationship with people involved in the project are as important as the completed piece of art.
She has worked as an artist and teacher in healthcare settings, using art as a tool to help build community, Smith taught in the Pennswood Village - Newtown Friends intergenerational program.
She has also taught drawing in the Graphic and Industrial Design foundation level programs in the College of Art and Architecture at Northeastern University and Wentworth Institute of Technology both in Boston, Massa...

Art Students League, New York, New York
Apprenticeship Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, New Jersey
MA Lesley University, Cambridge Massachusetts
Basel School for Design, Basel, Switzerland
BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Associates Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 94th Phillips’ Mill Juried art Show, New Hope PA
2021 92nd Juried Art Show at Phillips' Mill, New Hope, PA
2018 National Association of Women Artists, "Abstract the space between" Juried Show, New York, NY
2018 Philadelphia Sketch Club, "Small Oils" Juried Show, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Philadelphia Sketch Club, "Art of the Flower" Juried Show, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Artsbridge Members' Show, Honorable Mention Award, Prallsville Mills, NJ
2017 Artists' Guild at the Conservatory, Spring Juried Show, Doylestown, PA
2017 31st Annual Bucks Fever Juried Exhibition, "Who am I" Warrington, PA
2017 "Celebrate Art" Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library, Bristol, PA
2016 "Show Some Heart" Bucks County Community College, Lower Bucks Campus, Bristol, PA
2015 "Labor" Centre for the Arts, Bristol, PA
2015 "Summer Sojourn" Artists of Bristol, Silver Lake Nature Center, Bristol, PA
2012 KunstGruppe Rosenberg "20th Anniversary Exhibition" Rosenberg-Wila, Switzerland
2011 Shadow Boxes" Fiberworks Gallery, Pennswood Village, Newtown, PA
2009 www.internationalfibercollective.com

Solo Exhibitions:
2019 "Along the River (river as a metaphor)...2019" Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library, Bristol, PA
2015 & 2016 Photographs "Ma...