Karoline Schleh’s drawings, paintings, and prints are rendered with a distinct atmospheric quality she achieves through fumage (drawing with smoke) and inclusion of journaling her thoughts in her backwards script.  In these works, handwriting functions as both word and image, highlighting its connections to drawing, observation, and contemplation. Recent compositions are inspired by the Mississippi and the physical and personal landscape that surround it.

Collaborations with Bradley Sabin

Bradley Sabin & Karoline Schleh are recognized for their independent artistic endeavors as well as their collaborative installations such as that on view. Under Sabin’s nurturing touch, the weight of clay is transformed into ethereal organic forms while Schleh’s ghostly “backwards” script lends an atmospheric quality to the work they create together.

Elizabeth Weinstein, “The Dandelion: A Symbol of Resistance” group exhibition, Long Vue Gardens, 2023