Karen Roff is a mixed media artist who is actively exhibiting New York City and internationally. Her sculptures are forms that approximate life, and her work addresses the idea of rupture; the point of discontinuity when familiarity ends and the thing begins to deviate into something else. The forms start as additive reconstructions from fragmented trees, bushes, seedpods, and collected detritus from both natural and machine made sources. The machine made materials are utilitarian and mass produced, and the organic items are nature’s discards, things that are representative of plenitude and excess, such as branches that are strewn over the lawn after windstorms, and seeds that are released to the ground but never germinate. These collected segments are woven into forms that are a balance between the organic and the manufactured.
Ms. Roff has an MFA in painting and has taught in many different locations Dutchess, Orange and Putnam counties, and the Wooster School/Wooster Art Center program in Danbury. She teaches sculpture as a visiting artist each semester for the TAG [talented and gifted] art program in New Milford, Connecticut, and teaches enrichment sculpture in the Pawling.
