Karen Mosbacher

Growing up surrounded by the sounds of classical and jazz music, my journey as an abstract expressionist painter has developed utilizing a condition, or gift I have had since birth, known as a synesthesia. Working with music of different genres, as well as poetry, story, and other auditory processes, I paint what I see to create paintings full of rhythm, color, line work, texture, balance, and movement. The two forms of synesthesia I have are called Projective, which is a voluntary form, and Associative, which is an involuntary form. Two types of synesthesia I have that are applied in my process are called Chromesthesia and Grapheme-Color Synesthesia.



My passion for Classical Music has been in my soul, ears, and eyes since birth. Jazz, too, with its beautiful self-expressive beats, wild rhythms, and emotional freedom. UpBeat Magazine proclaimed my Dad, Billy Mosbacher, as an “up and coming Jazz pianist” in the late 40’s. He played with all the great Jazz musicians of that period. As early as I can remember, my days were spent drawing and coloring under Billy’s piano while he practiced both classical and jazz music. The closer I am to an instrument, the more vibrant are the colors, textures, and shapes in the notes. Classica...

1983 University of Oklahoma, B.F.A. in Painting

Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts

2007 Phillips Theological Seminary, M. DIV.



Solo Exhibitions

• 2020 Victoria at Home, Santa Fe, NM

• 2019 Victoria at Home, Paint : Music, Enchanted Land, Welcome Home, Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 2019 Ojo Optique, Paint : Music and All. That. Jazz. Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 2019 Haciendas: The Parade of Homes Show House, Paint : Music, Welcome Home, & All. That. Jazz., Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 2019 Farrell’s Gallery, Mosbacher Unframed, Rome Georgia

• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, Paint : Music, Rome Georgia

• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, I Am the Storm, Rome Georgia

• 2018 Gallery 4945, Paint : Music, Atlanta Georgia

• 2017 Urban Art Collective, Visions, Chamblee, Georgia



Group Exhibitions

• Day2Day Gallery, Paint : Music and All. That. Jazz., Lyon, France

• 2019 Gallery 25N, Paint : Music, New York, New York

• 2019 JRB ART at the Elms, Paint : Music and Abstraction, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• 2019 Farrell’s Gallery, Paint : Music, Rome Georgia

• 2018 I.D.E.A. Gallery, I Am the Storm, Chamblee Georgia

• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, Textures in Color, Rome, Georgia

• 2017 I.D.E.A. Gallery, I Am t...

Solo Exhibitions

• 2020 Victoria at Home, Santa Fe, NM

• 2019 Victoria at Home, Paint : Music, Enchanted Land, Welcome Home, Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 2019 Ojo Optique, Paint : Music and All. That. Jazz. Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 2019 Haciendas: The Parade of Homes Show House, Paint : Music, Welcome Home, & All. That. Jazz., Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 2019 Farrell’s Gallery, Mosbacher Unframed, Rome Georgia

• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, Paint : Music, Rome Georgia

• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, I Am the Storm, Rome Georgia

• 2018 Gallery 4945, Paint : Music, Atlanta Georgia

• 2017 Urban Art Collective, Visions, Chamblee, Georgia



Group Exhibitions

• Day2Day Gallery, Paint : Music and All. That. Jazz., Lyon, France

• 2019 Gallery 25N, Paint : Music, New York, New York

• 2019 JRB ART at the Elms, Paint : Music and Abstraction, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• 2019 Farrell’s Gallery, Paint : Music, Rome Georgia

• 2018 I.D.E.A. Gallery, I Am the Storm, Chamblee Georgia

• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, Textures in Color, Rome, Georgia

• 2017 I.D.E.A. Gallery, I Am the Storm, Chamblee Georgia

• 2017 Farrell’s Gallery, Grief Exposed, Rome, Georgia

• 2016 Center for the Contemporary Arts, Abstraction, Contempor...