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Karen Lederer is a Brooklyn-based artist whose fresh, intriguing work moves effortlessly between painting and printmaking. Holding a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University and an MFA from RISD, she has developed a layered, colorful visual language that blends monoprint techniques with acrylic, oil, watercolor, stenciling, and collage-like drawing.
Influenced by Matisse, Picasso, Marimekko, and the everyday imagery of New York consumer culture, Karen Lederer constructs intimate still lifes that evoke a spatial disorientation between flat graphic patterns and rendered realism. She directly engages with feminist politics and studio life: self‑portraits appear in the act of cutting protest signs, merging personal experience with broader social narratives and challenging traditional art‑historical canons by inserting her own voice into them.
The result is work that speaks powerfully to the complex, fascinating business of everyday life—an aesthetic that balances playfulness with social critique, digital filter with analog hand, poetry with pattern.
