Karen Gallagher Iverson is a San Francisco area artist exploring innovative conventions within the fields of traditional printmaking and drawing. With a focus on uniquely expressing the light and silhouettes of the Northern California landscape, Gallagher employs a variety of methods to visually abstract information and build rich, highly layered images.   

 

Gallagher has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the deYoung Museum, Turner Print Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Grace Hudson Museum, New Museum Los Gatos and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.   

 

Features on her studio practice and work can most recently be seen in the vol7:4 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader and vol 30/31 of the Mid America Print Council Journal. Karen’s work is in the collections of the Bancroft Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stanford Health Care, The Nevada Museum of Art as well as other private and public collections.  

 

In 2018 she was selected to receive an Artist Parent Award at the Kala Art Institute and continues to maintain an artist residency at their Berkeley printmaking facilities. Additionally, Karen has taught in educational programs such as Kala, and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received her MFA with the department fellowship.

 

Karen brings decades of experience in the arts to her current work as a creative operations professional, with a background spanning fine art installation, gallery preparation, studio management, and project support for prominent artists, projects and galleries throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Following years of leadership with the California Society of Printmakers, she continues her engagement with the field as an elected artist member of the California Society of Printmakers, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Boston Printmakers, and Mid America Print Council.

 

Today, Karen focuses much of her professional time on supporting creative entrepreneurs in their practices while continuing to make work in her home studio alongside her young family.