Karen Goetzinger

Karen Goetzinger is an abstract painter, born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who lived in Minnesota, New York, and Ottawa, Ontario and has recently returned to her roots in Milwaukee.

Through the use of mixed media such as acrylic, ink, graphite, and oil pastel, she expressively marks the imprint of beauty in the seemingly inconsequential and imperfect things of life. There is a fierceness about her brushwork— an agitation and determination and yet her paintings are often described as beautiful, uplifting, and filled with life and energy. Colors and marks push off the edges of the large scale canvases with an unrestrained freedom.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Design with an emphasis in Fine Arts from Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work, which has been funded by the ARTicipate Endowment Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts, is exhibited in galleries throughout North America, in cities such as Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Milwaukee, and New York. It has been shown in exhibition spaces in China and Australia and hangs in international private and corporate collections.

Currently, she is the vice president of Wisconsin Visual Artists, sits on the board of the Cedarburg Artists Guild as a committee chair, and is a member of the League of Milwaukee Artists.