Karah Lain creates paintings, drawings, and prints that question and complicate the ubiquitous, yet curious experience of living in a densely populated city, where trees and clouds mingle with concrete cracks and power lines. Through material, gesture, and color, Lain negotiates the rich tension between the natural and the artificial fueled by an impulse to connect to the material eccentricities that contextualize everyday life in the city.
Education
- Master of Fine Arts in Craft – Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
- Bachelor of Science in Painting, Drawing, and Illustration – Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, Illinois
Courses Taught
- ART1000 — Introduction to Art
- ART1013 — 2-D Design
- ART1015 — Drawing 1
- ART2006 — Advanced Drawing
- ART2010 — Painting 1
- ART2023 — Printmaking 1
- ART 3010 — Painting 2
- ART 3023 — Printmaking 2
- ART 3045 — Life Drawing
- ART4066 — Senior Exhibition Preparation
- ART 4090 — Color Theory
Experience in Field
- Remembering Air – Solo exhibition at Keller Gallery, San Diego, California, August 2025
- Between the Trees – Juried group exhibition by Harvest and Gather, San Diego, California, July 2025
- “Eve Sedgwick's Paranoid Reading vs. Reparative Reading in the Pedagogy of the Critique” – Paper presentation at The Arts in Society Conference, May 2025
- Chomaterial – Juried group exhibition at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, November 2024
- Ordinary Devotion – Solo exhibition of paintings at Keller Gallery in San Diego, California, August 2024
- Subtractica – Juried group exhibition at Troppus Projects in Akron, Ohio, April 2023
- Artist in Residence in Printmaking — In Cahoots Press in Petaluma, California, Fall 2021
- Of Transience – A socially distanced solo exhibition of twenty paintings in twenty homes across the United States, accompanied by an interview in the San Diego Union Tribune, June 2020