Karin Gulbran



Obscure Mirror (Landscape with 3 Flowers and Erbium Glass), 2022
Obscure Mirror (Landscape with 3 Flowers and Erbium Glass), 2022
Glazed ceramic, hand formed and silvered glass
55.88 x 46.36 x 12.07 cm
22 x 18.25 x 4.75 in

Obscure Mirror (Landscape with Snails and Violet Glass), 2022
Obscure Mirror (Landscape with Snails and Violet Glass), 2022
Glazed ceramic, hand formed and silvered glass
33.66 x 31.12 x 7.62 cm
13.25 x 12.25 x 3 in

Obscure Mirror (Bronze with Corner Rosettes and Amber Glass), 2022
Obscure Mirror (Bronze with Corner Rosettes and Amber Glass), 2022
Glazed ceramic, hand formed and silvered glass
46.99 x 45.72 x 7.62 cm
18.5 x 18 x 3 in

Obscure Mirror (Bronze with Corner Rosettes and Citron Glass), 2022
Obscure Mirror (Bronze with Corner Rosettes and Citron Glass), 2022
Glazed ceramic, hand formed and silvered glass
31.12 x 28.58 x 6.99 cm
12.25 x 11.25 x 2.75 in

Obscure Mirror (Verdant Landscape with Lemons and Aqua Glass), 2022
Obscure Mirror (Verdant Landscape with Lemons and Aqua Glass), 2022
Glazed ceramic, hand formed and silvered glass
49.53 x 58.42 x 11.43 cm
19.5 x 23 x 4.5 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

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

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

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

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

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




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.