KARIN BROKER
Karin Broker has been a successful professional artist for decades. Her works include drawings, prints, and assemblage sculptures. Based in Houston, Broker was Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at Rice University for 41 years. Her art can be found in numerous important permanent museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Bechtler Collection, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University.
Whether Broker is wiring objects with rhinestones, welding steel into sculptures, drawing with graphite, or making intaglio prints, she continually addresses themes of family, religion, gender inequality, and violence towards women in her art. Broker’s art chronicles acts of courage and brilliance achieved by her “tribe” and is heavily informed by what she calls “gender stuff.” Where her work first focused on gender negativity, she has grown empowered by the countless incredibly talented and brave women who have been forgotten, purposely overlooked, and dismissed for their many achievements throughout history.
Born in Pennsylvania, Karin Broker (b. 1950, Penn, Pennsylvania) received a BFA from the University of Iowa and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She studied printmaking under Stanley W. Hayter at the Atelier 17 in Paris. In 1994, Broker was the Texas Artist of the Year and was awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Houstonia magazine published a story about Broker's home and studio which can be viewed here.
