Karin Gulbran, initially trained as a painter, turned her interests towards ceramics during the early stages of her career. She has developed a vocabulary grounded in investigating and conveying her everlasting interest for all things connected to the realm of the natural world. Each of Karin Gulbran’s works carries the viewer into the artist’s personal expressionistic lexicon that is formed intuitively and emotionally through the creative process.

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Biography

Karin Gulbran, initially trained as a painter, turned her interests towards ceramics during the early stages of her career.


She has developed a vocabulary grounded in investigating and conveying her everlasting interest for all things connected to the realm of the natural world. Each of Karin Gulbran’s works carries the viewer into the artist’s personal expressionistic lexicon that is formed intuitively and emotionally through the creative process.


Natural forms provide the basis of inspiration for which the artist’s practice predominantly deals with, without being a literal representation or didactic interpretation of nature. Feeling is conveyed within Karin Gulbran’s oeuvre through the use of sensual glazed surfaces, alternately smooth and rough, matte and glossy.


Karin Gulbran was born in Seattle in 1967. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions include: Obscure Mirrors & Totemic Lamps, Pierre Marie Giraud, Bruxelles (2022); Somnambulist, MASSIMODECARLO, London, United Kingdom (2021); Weird Sisters, MASSIMODECARLO, Milan, Italy (2018); The Woods, Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels (2016); Karin Gulbran, White Columns, New York (2014). Group exhibitions include: These lacustrine homes, curated by Mai-Thu Perret, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Vision Valley: The Glendale Biennial, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, USA (2018); The Brightsiders, curated by Adam Miller, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, USA (2017); Tiger Tiger, Salon 94, New York (2015).

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
D, Obscure Mirrors & Totemic Lamps, Pierre Marie Giraud, Bruxelles, Belgium
2021
UK, Somnambulist, MASSIMODECARLO, London
2018
I, Weird Sisters, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
B, Birds, Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels
2016
B, The Woods, Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels
2015
USA, Splendor in the Grass, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
2014
USA, Karin Gulbran, White Room Show, White Columns, New York
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2021
USA, These lacustrine homes Curated by Mai-Thu Perret, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
UK, Cracked, Tristan Hoare, London
2020
USA, Sculpture from a Distance (Part III), Parker Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
USA, Vision Valley: The Glendale Biennial, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale
2017
USA, Behold Man, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
USA, The Brightsiders Curated by Adam Miller, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento
2016
USA, SexPot Curated by Monique van Genderen and Amy Gallaccio, Visual Arts Gallery, Structural and Materials Enginerrin (SME) Building, San Diego
2015
USA, The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and its Legacy, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
USA, Sweet Sixteen, China Art Object Galleries, Los Angeles
USA, Tiger Tiger, Salon 94, New York
2014
USA, Visible Soul, Van Dernoot Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge
USA, Another Cats Show, 365 Mission, Los Angeles
2013
USA, Why is Everything the Same?, Works from the collection of Anne Collier and Matthew Higgs, Shoot the Lobster, New York
USA, The Cat Show Curated by Rhonda Lieberman, White Columns, New York
USA, Wonder Valley Way Station - High Desert Test Sites project by Corrina Peipon and Lucy Raven, The Palms, Wonder Valley
USA, Pet Shapes, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
2012
USA, Eye Bowls Shop exhibit of ceramics, South Willard Store, Los Angeles
1999
USA, Bill Adams, Karin Gulbran, Joey Kotting, Jessica Fredericks gallery, New York
USA, MFA Thesis Show, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
USA, Ordinary Magic, 9251/2 Tularosa, Silverlake
USA, Square Pegs, Ron Breeden Gallery, Orange

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2015
Wagley, Catherine, LA Weekly, December
Horst, Aaron, CARLA, November 18
1998
Curtis, Cathy, LA Times, March 10
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, OC Weekly, March 6

Public collections

Country
Location
United States of America
TIA Collection, Santa Fe
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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