About

Artist Bio

Karen Hochman Brown [USA, b. 1958] is an award-winning Los Angeles-based digital artist who uses her own photography as a base for manipulation in 2-D formats and animations. Explorations in this field have led to projects involving prints on fabric married to laser-cut wood elements as well as purely digital forays based in line, shape and movement. The work is sensitive to the inherent beauty of the subjects she captures as she strives to magnify that quality of beauty through focus and repetition. The resulting forms resonate in harmony and discord, creating unique energies.

Hochman Brown studied art at Pitzer College, California College of Art and Art Center College of Design, but self-developed her processes through experimentation, relying heavily on skills learned as a graphic designer. She finds inspiration from Georgia O’Keeffe, Frank Stella, Salvador Dalí, Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton.

Hochman Brown has had solo shows with Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Santa Barbara, CA, Gallery 825 and TAG Gallery Los Angeles, California Center for Digital Art, Santa Ana, CA, The Gallery at Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ.  She has participated in numerous group shows in the Los Angeles area and throughout the United States.

Curriculum Vitae (selected)

Exhibition History can be found on the Exhibitions Page.

Education

  • 2007-09  ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  • 1992-2003  UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Continuing Education
  • 1996  Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
  • 1991  Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1981-83  California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, Art Teaching Credential
  • 1979  Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, B.A. in Art
  • 1977  California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Special Projects and Commissions

  • Los Angeles Cancer Network,  treatment room artwork, Los Angeles, CA
  • Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Magazine Cover Art, Rochester, MN
  • Multicultural Holiday Artwork Project, City of West Hollywood, West Hollywood, CA
  • Artist of the Month, Altadena Arts, Altadena, CA
  • Through the Eyes of Artists poster series, LA Metro, Los Angeles, CA
  • She Loves Me, Set Design, JFed Players, Pasadena, CA
  • Fools, Set Design, JFed Players, Pasadena CA
  • A Little Night Music, Set Design, JFed Players, Pasadena CA

Artist-In-Residence

  • 2018  Crowell Public Library, San Marino, CA
  • 2016  The Gallery at The Arboretum Library, Arcadia, CA

Press and Publications

  • Diversion LA, “Soar Through a Cloud Renewal with Karen Hochman Brown” October 19, 2023
  • Art and Cake, “Climb Into This Digital Playground,” February 12, 2022
  • Diversion LA, “The Scent of a Flowered World” May 1, 2020
  • Art and Cake, “Anonymous@theBeach is the perfect summer exhibition,” June 27, 2019
  • Full Blede, “ISSUE EIGHT: Interpenetrate,” April 2019
  • Art and Cake, “Shoreline Symmetry: Seas Both Fragile and Grand,” September 26, 2018
  • AEQAI, “Karen Hochman Brown Shows Us the Beauty of Math in ‘Botanic Geometry,’” March 2018
  • Full Blede, “ISSUE FOUR: The Pattern,” March 2018
  • Art and Cake, “Botanic Geometry with Karen Hochman Brown,” March 19, 2018
  • KCRW Design & Architecture “5 design things to do this week,” March 26, 2018
  • Diversion LA, “Inward and Outward: The Kaleidoscopic Art of Karen Hochman Brown,” December 30, 2017
  • JLife Magazine, “Karen Hochman Brown: How One Local Artist Creates & Inspires,” July 2017 Issue
  • Sunrise Spotlight on Karen Hochman Brown, Artist, Crown City News, Pasadena, CA, September 19, 2016
  • 365 Days Artists, “Karen Hochman Brown-Altadena California,” Oct 17, 2015

Representation & Affiliation

  • IAA-USA
  • TAG Gallery
  • Los Angeles Art Association
  • Pasadena Society of Artists 
  • Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • Shoebox Arts, Los Angeles, CA
  • Jewish Artists Initiative
  • Women’s Caucus for Art

Awards

  • World Art Expo Olympiart – Gold Award, Seoul, Korea, 2024
  • Honorable Mention, 99th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Society of Artists, Montrose, CA, 2024
  • Honorable Mention, 97th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Society of Artists, Burbank, CA, 2022
  • The Jackie Steimke Memorial Award, 96th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Society of Artists, Montrose, CA, 2021
  • City Manager’s Award, Juried Art Exhibition 2021, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, 2021
  • 3rd Place – Best in Exhibition, Juried Art Exhibition 2021, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, 2021
  • James Ackley McBride Landscape Award, 94th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Society of Artists, 2019
  • Honorable Mention, “Vibrant”, N.Y. Photo Curators, 2018
  • Honorable Mention, Awarded by Spotlight Art Solo Exhibition, International Gallery of the Arts, Toronto, Canada, 2016

Teaching

  • Construction Geometry via Art, Waldorf School, Altadena, CA, 1994
  • Construction Geometry via Art, Arts Magnet High School, Oakland, CA, 1981-1983

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