Karen Safer Verified listing

I’ve always been an artist. I was given a camera and crayons at 3 and exposed, enchanted and inspired by California motifs: light, trees, the ocean, music and vernacular architecture that defined and influenced my left-handed aesthetic. I was motivated by my dad’s photographic hobby and my mother’s thirst for knowledge and travel. I have a master’s degree in art and a career in design and architecture. Nature in all its glory captivates me; I take inspiration from the ancient world to the modern - from the Assyrians to Vermeer to Matisse to Atget to Cindy Sherman. I photograph realistic images but enjoy abstracting from the natural world and/or creating abstract images. The images here were naturally photographed through the lens with the intent of being abstract. I want to share my vision with the world. "An artist has the whole world big or small to capture." k safer

I've been featured in 190+ publications, such as LENS, Dodho, ArtTalk, ArtTour, Docu, One Eyeland, Spotlight, Visual Poetry Journal, etc. I exhibit worldwide, recently alongside Jackson Pollock in a group exhibit in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and continuously in 14 solo and 720+ international exhibitions from London, Rome, Berlin, Glasgow, Budapest, Athens, Prague, Paris, Barcelona, Florence, Venice, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Dubai, Sydney, Zurich, etc. from California to New York, winning 610+ awards – most recently: TIFA, PISPA, Exposure One, reFocus, B&W SPIDER Awards, 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Botticelli International Prize in Florence, LA Art Show and International Color and B&W Awards, CEV & DecAgon 1st Pl, Exposure One, etc. Listed in: Who’s Who of Professional Women, Who’s Who in America, Biography International (Cambridge), Who's Who in the West, etc. IN: LAAA, LACP, IAA-USA.