Karen Gallagher Iverson is a NY native currently maintaining her art studio in Oakland, CA. An experimental printmaker disassembling the traditional format of printmaking, she curiously investigates her view of the world through image making, materials and processes while feeding a passion for innovation and scholarly expansion.

Gallagher-Iverson exhibits in local and national exhibitions, was awarded a 2017/18 Kala Art Institute Artist Parent Award & Artist Residency, and was the 2016 recipient of an International Encaustic Conference Attendee Grant . Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State University of New York at Albany Art Museum, and other private collections.

She has taught in educational programs such as Kala, and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received her MFA with the department fellowship.

In addition to volunteering on community centered public art projects, Gallagher-Iverson has decades of experience as a fine art installer, gallery preparator, and studio manager for prominent artists and galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Karen focuses the majority of her time in the studio, second only to her young family.

“As a printmaker my current artistic focus pushes against the boundaries of printmaking and the act of drawing. Specifically how drawing materials and methods intersect with the vast system of resists, screens and hidden reversals inherent in printmaking. At this crossing point I build layers and images that have distance from their original material and process, allowing atmosphere to take precedence and direct the visual conversation”.