Karin Gulbran



Table lamp with Yellow Tail Bird on a Branch, 2024
Table lamp with Yellow Tail Bird on a Branch, 2024
ceramic, glaze
53 x 33 x 33 cm
20.87 x 12.99 x 12.99 in

(Copie du 2024-11-19), 2024
(Copie du 2024-11-19), 2024
ceramic, glaze
53 x 33 x 33 cm
20.87 x 12.99 x 12.99 in

Table lamp with Snail, Snake and Wren, 2024
Table lamp with Snail, Snake and Wren, 2024
ceramic, glaze
71 x 42 x 42 cm
27.95 x 16.54 x 16.54 in

Table lamp with Frog in a Lemon Tree and Two Snails, 2024
Table lamp with Frog in a Lemon Tree and Two Snails, 2024
ceramic, glaze
57 x 36 x 36 cm
22.44 x 14.17 x 14.17 in

Pelican With a Crown, 2018
Pelican With a Crown, 2018
Glazed ceramic
56 x 38 x 24 cm
22.05 x 14.96 x 9.45 in

Pelican (baby blue), 2015
Pelican (baby blue), 2015
Stoneware, enamel
53,5 x 23 x 23 cm
20.87 x 9.06 x 9.06 in

King Pelican, 2018
King Pelican, 2018
Glazed ceramic
76,2 x 40,6 x 30,5 cm
29.92 x 15.75 x 11.81 in

Little Goldfish Bowl, 2022
Little Goldfish Bowl, 2022
glazed ceramic
17.78 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
7 x 10 x 10 in

Vessel With Water Birds, 2022
Vessel With Water Birds, 2022
glazed ceramic
65.41 x 51.44 x 51.44 cm
25.75 x 20.25 x 20.25 in

Pond in April, 2022
Pond in April, 2022
glazed ceramic
19.69 x 60.33 x 60.33 cm
7.75 x 23.75 x 23.75 in

Totemic Lamp after Guidette Carbonell, (Crow in a Lemon Tree), 2022
Totemic Lamp after Guidette Carbonell, (Crow in a Lemon Tree), 2022
glazed ceramic
157.48 x 30.48 x 30.48 cm
62 x 12 x 12 in

Totemic Lamp after Guidette Carbonell, 2022
Totemic Lamp after Guidette Carbonell, 2022
ceramic
180 x 40 x 40 cm
70.87 x 15.75 x 15.75 in




American, born 1967 in Seattle, WA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA



Initially trained as a painter, Karin Gulbran turned her interests towards ceramics in the early stages of her professional life. Swiftly shifting from two to three dimensions, she built her own bridges between art and craft with the production of "functional" objects in which ornamentation dominates.

On irregularly hand-built pots and vases, Gulbran unfolds fantastic and figurative scenes, featuring wide-eyed animals, lush nature, and inhabited waters. Distorted around the circumference of the pieces, crawling on and around the bumps and hollows of the surface, her expressive bestiary advocates for her pictorial education. Recalling, expressionism, cartoons, and Middle-Age illustration Gulbran?s works seamlessly bind fine art and vernacular crafts.