Karin Denson

Bio: "Karin Denson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Northern California whose work explores the intersection of nature and technology through glitch-based paintings, photomontages, and collages. Born in Silesia, Poland, and raised in Germany, she moved to the U.S. in 2014 and draws on her intercultural background and deep-rooted fascination with wildlife to create pieces that reflect ecological fragility and the aesthetic beauty in technological disruptions. Educated as a Montessori, art, and special‑education teacher, Denson has worked in Germany, North Carolina, and the Bay Area, including as an art instructor at the Duke University International House, and art and resource specialist at the German International School of Silicon Valley. She is a member of Edgewater Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA, and has exhibited her works in various places around the US."

Statement: "In my paintings, collages, and photography, I explore the fragile intersections of nature and technology. Drawing inspiration from digital glitches and broken ecosystems, my work engages with visual metaphors for the disruptions and imbalances shaping our world today. Glitch aesthetics—those accidental or aleatoric artifacts of malfunction—become a lens through which to examine ecological collapse, transformation, and the possibility of renewal. My work emerges from a deep love of the natural world and a sustained curiosity about digital processes, especially their wild, unpredictable outcomes. Through abstract forms and layered imagery, I aim to express concern for endangered environments while also revealing their unexpected beauty and resilience. Some species, like the California Brown Pelican, have been pushed to the brink of extinction more than once, only to return through ecotechnical interventions. Others are adapting in real time, expanding into human-altered habitats and reconfiguring old boundaries. I hope to make these entanglements—between species, systems, and technologies—visible in the fleeting, fragile passage of time. My work asks viewers to sit with malfunction, not as error, but as a mode of attention to the interdependence and precarity that characterize life in the Anthropocene. "

Karin Denson

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