Karen Nielsen Licher

After earning a BA in painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking at UCLA in the early 80’s, she established her own studio practice in downtown Los Angeles. In the 1980’s and into the early 1990’s, Karen Nielsen Licher co-founded and co-directed two underground galleries in the Los Angeles area, the Civilian Light Gallery in West LA, and The Hallway Gallery in downtown LA. Karen and her husband, artist and musician Bruce Licher, currently co-curate and direct THE PROJECT ROOM at Independent Project Press, an art gallery adjacent to and within an operating letterpress print studio, located in the high and dry desert sagebrush plains of the Owens Valley along the eastern edge of California. [Edited from her website]