Karin Aggeler

Karin Aggeler

Karin Aggeler came to Santa Barbara from Munich, Germany in 1963. Since then she has participated in the Santa Barbara art community as a career potter and sold ceramics to shops and galleries throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She has received numerous awards for her works in juried shows. For fourteen years, Karin was Arts and Crafts Coordinator and Ceramics Teacher at the Braille Institute.

Before beginning her 30-plus–year career in pottery, Karin’s first love was drawing and painting. Since 2000 she has returned to the canvas, now dividing her time between creating new works in clay and painting with acrylics.

Karin is inspired by her memories, as well as landscapes and vistas, colors and textures. Rather than simply capture her own feelings on canvas, she aspires to create a piece of work that is open and abstract enough to embrace the experiences and visions of the viewer, and able to change as the mood of the viewer changes. “My hope is to create work that avoids a static position on the wall,” says Karin “and instead joins the viewer in a dynamic, continuous conversation.”

EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, RESIDENCY (painting)

2009 Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.

(one woman show)

2009 Artiste winery selected painting for wine label, Santa Ynez, CA

2008 LACMA, Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

(4 artists show)

2007 Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

(two women show)

2006 Fielding Institute Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

Step One Gallery, Carpinteria, CA

(juried show, second place award)

2005 Maritime Museum, Santa Barbara, CA