Karin Denson
Phone: (210) 454-3928
Instagram: @karinkorneliadenson
Website: http://karindenson.com
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 the "non/phenomenal" collective with Brett Amory and Shane Denson.
Statement: In my paintings, collages, and photography, I explore the delicate connections between nature, technology, memory, dreams, and time. I am drawn to moments that feel temporary or uncertain—when something is changing, fading, breaking, or beginning again. My work reflects on the fleeting passage of time and the circle of life and death, where beauty, loss, and renewal are always connected. Glitches are central to my practice because they reveal both rupture and possibility. A glitch marks a break, a failure, an interruption—but also a moment of renewal, transformation, and unexpected emergence. In this sense, glitch aesthetics offer a way to think about ecosystems, bodies, memories, and dreams as unstable living systems. Nothing remains fixed. Forms dissolve, reassemble, and speak to one another across media. My work comes from my love of nature and my curiosity about technology, especially the strange and unexpected things that can happen when digital processes “go wrong’ or rather surprise with unexpected outcomes. I am interested in how living things, memories, dreams, and technological images become connected. Nature is always changing, and so are the systems we use to see and understand it. These changes remind us that we are part of the same fragile and shifting world.
