Karen Marston (b. 1964, Madison, WI) paints landscapes resonant with the vivid beauty of nature and the existential threat of global warming. Raised in California, she earned her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and participated in the A.I.C.A. New York Studio Program. Her work has been seen in solo exhibitions in New York City, including three at the Owen James Gallery—Fire Season (2021), Harbingers(2018) and Demeter’s Wrath (2016)—as well as at Station Independent Projects and Storefront Bushwick, plus the recent solo show Relative to the Horizon (2022) at the James Baird Gallery in Canada. She has also participated in many group exhibitions in a variety of New York spaces including Metaphor Projects, Front Room Gallery, and the SPRING/BREAK Art Show. She has been awarded multiple residencies at both the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland and the Jentel Artists Residency in Wyoming. Marston served as President of the Board of Trustees of NURTUREart Non-Profit for over ten years. She was instrumental in the growth of the organization: opening the NURTUREart Gallery and hosting eleven seasons of Muse Fuse, an informal monthly art salon with many notable guest speakers from the forefront of the New York art world. Marston currently lives and works in Brooklyn,