Karen Kunc, is a Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, where she has taught since 1983. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at: Gallery APA in Nagoya, Japan; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL; and the Blandon Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA and group exhibitions at: Il Quatro di Omega Gallery, Rome, Italy; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID; the 5th American Print Biennial, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; Global Matrix, Purdue University Galleries, Lafayette, IN; TrueNorth Snap International Print Biennial, Edmonton, Canada; and the Triennial 100 Cities, City Culture Center, Dzierzoniowo, Poland; Hyndai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, Korea. Her work has received awards recently from the Boston Printmakers 2003 North American Print Exhibition; Pressed and Pulled X, Georgia College and State University; the 28th Bradley Print and Drawing Exhibition; and the Third Minnesota National Print Biennial. She was most recently a visiting artist at the Krakow Academy of Fine Art in Poland, the Nagasawa Art Park in Japan, the University of Texas at Austin, and a presenter at IMPACT, International Printmaking Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Karen has conducted workshops at Frogman's Print & Paper Workshops, Anderson Ranch, Art New England, and the Holulaloa Foundation for Arts and Culture in Hawaii.

Kunc received her Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University in 1977 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 1975. In addition to teaching at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, she has also has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, Carleton College in Northfield, MN and the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavic.

These works represent my ongoing creation of a visual iconography of invented forms suggestive of nature and derived from my travel experiences and my own rural environment. In many of my prints I use ambiguous spatial illusions, a juxtaposition of the elements of shape and color, and a relationship of the edges of the paper to the breaking and interruption of the image. In my work, these formal ideas become symbolic abstractions suggestive of landscape, unusual structures, or plant forms. My prints address the ideas of the eternal forces that shape the natural world as a means to capture a moment, the alignment of chance encounters, the immeasurability of time and distance, and the invisible, physical forces at work. I have put these notions into iconic images of creation, preservation, and allusions to human myth and metaphor.