Karen Rose is a landscape-based artist whose work explores place through observation, memory, and material process. Her imagery evolves through a studio practice grounded in painting and printmaking, where structure, gesture, and atmosphere are developed through both intuition and intention.

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Her work reflects, in part, her Mexican American heritage, while remaining attentive to the landscapes she moves through and between. For this exhibition, Rose focuses on North Carolina, where imagery connected to farmworkers emerges within the landscape, bringing attention to the people who shape and sustain it.

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Rose holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has participated in a printmaking residency at La Maldita Estampa in Barcelona, supported by a North Carolina arts grant, and was awarded a Kivunim Fellowship to Morocco.

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She maintains a studio practice in both Richmond, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina, and currently teaches at the Urban School of San Francisco, California.