Karen LaFleur
Techspressionist Digital-artist
• Writer • Fine Art Animator
Karen LaFleur is a Techspressionist digital-artist, writer, and fine art animator. She combines traditional drawing and painting techniques with digital renderings and computer animation. A common theme in her artwork is the interplay between interior and exterior worlds.
Her artworks and animations often incorporate narrative principles of “Text and Image” influenced by the picture book, graphic novels, animation, film, and fine art. She holds a Master Degree in Children’s Literature from Simmons University, Boston MA, a Certificate in Computer Graphics from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, and a Master Degree in Illustration from Syracuse University, NY.
In 1981 she turned to the computer as an all-inclusive medium. Today she works with a variety of software applications including digital animation. In 2020 she became a foundational member of Techspressionism, an international artist-lead movement to introduce Techspressionism as a new art-historical term to describe fine artists using digital technology to convey subjective, emotional content.
Her “Flash Fiction” stories appear in her artworks and in the anthology “This One Has No Name,” Hobo Jungle Press. Plus, she lectures on “Text and Image” at various art venues and universities including as Keynote Speaker for VisCom, Syracuse University, NY and at the Art Students League, NYC NY.
Her artworks exhibit nationally including the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, CCMA Museum, Dennis MA, Hammond Museum, Salem NY, Fuller Museum, Brockton MA, Union-Square, San Francisco CA and are found in private collections worldwide.
