Karen LaFleur

Karen LaFleur is a Techspressionist digital artist, writer and animator.  Her artwork explores the interplay between interior and exterior worlds with a focus on adaptability.  By combining surface beauty with the artwork’s inner voice, she reveals vulnerability in complex structures and highlights the resiliency of the human heart to survive within these ever-shifting landscapes. 

She began her career as a fine artist, storyteller and observer of human nature.  Since 1981 she has used the computer to channel these common interests into an all-inclusive medium and she remains an avid user of digital art technology today.  Her artwork borrows across genres merging elements of fine art expression, the graphic novel’s dramatic layout perspectives, micro-fiction’s consolidation of emotion, and the freedom of improvisational dance movement. The result is a visual art that gives the viewer access to the artwork's inner world.

Karen LaFleur’s artwork exhibits nationally; including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, The Fuller Craft Museum, MA, The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, MA, Union Square San Francisco, CA, The Southampton Art Center, Southampton, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island, (MOCA L.I. Lights), NY, The Hammond Museum, N. Salem, NY, Fountain St. Gallery, Video Sidewalk gallery, Boston, MA, and can be found in private and public collections worldwide.  

In addition, she lectures on her artwork in such venues as: The Art Student’s League of New York, Keynote Speaker “VisCom" Syracuse University, NY, The Fuller Craft Museum, MA, University of Connecticut, CT and The Art Institute of Philadelphia, “FS16” Conference, Philadelphia, PA.