A painter and draughtsman, Karlsberg’s work is about light: about the conflicts of light and shadow, desolation and beauty, and about the emotional responses light provokes, encompassing portraiture, the figure, landscape and still life.
Her childhood was spent in a small MA suburb where she grew to love the natural world and spent hours exploring and immersed in the woods and countryside. Linda has always drawn and painted, a practice that began in grade school and continued throughout her life. Pearlman Karlsberg studied visual art at Boston University’s College for the Arts, with particular mentorship from artist-professors Conger Metcalf, Arthur Polonsky, David Aronson, and Philip Guston. She earned both BFA and MFAs magna cum laude at BU, was a teaching assistant while an undergraduate, and a graduate teaching fellow in painting as a graduate student. After earning her MFA, she continued to teach drawing, design, and painting at Boston University, The Art Institute, and other Boston area colleges.
Pearlman Karlsberg has shown her work extensively including recent solo exhibitions at Diana Stelin Gallery, Brookline, MA; Five Points Art Gallery, Torrington, CT; the Atrium Gallery at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA; the Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY; The Interchurch Center Gallery, NY, NY; the Newton Public Library Gallery, Newton, MA; and the Daniels Gallery HRCA, Boston, MA. Her work was presented in notable group exhibitions at Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Five Points Art Gallery, Art Complex Museum, PEG Center for Art & Activism, Berkshire Art Museum, Monmouth Museum, American Women Artists, The Drawing Rooms, Alpers Fine Art, Steamboat Art Museum, Fountain Street Art, Piano Craft Gallery, Canvas Fine Arts, Circle Gallery Maryland Federation of Art, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Trustman Gallery at Simmons College, Thompson Gallery at Cambridge School of Weston, Heftler Gallery at Endicott College, New Britain Museum of American Art, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Foundry Art Center, Westbeth Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Danforth Art Museum, National Steinbeck Center Museum, Noyes Museum, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Point Park University, and The Art Gallery at Univ. of Maryland, among many others. Pearlman Karlsberg’s artwork was chosen in 2008, 2013 and 2020 for the “8 Visions” exhibition at the Attleboro Art Museum.
She is recipient of numerous awards for her drawings and paintings, and her work has been featured in art periodicals, blogs and newspapers, and shared in numerous catalogs. Linda’s work is in public and private collections throughout the United States.
StatementMy work is about light: about the conflicts of light and shadow and about the emotional responses light provokes.
In series focused on exceptional outspoken women, portraits, skies, water lilies, landscapes, and still lifes I probe life’s fragility, struggle, contradictions, and inscrutability. These areas of figurative realism offer rich possibilities to celebrate moments of beauty and wonder found in individuals and the world, but also to grapple with the world’s, natural environment’s and individual’s inherent fragility and challenges.
A bittersweet sadness tussles with the pleasure natural beauty engenders. These artworks, so dependent on the light of the transient moment depicted call up temporality and all it implies in nature, in our lives and in the lives of those around us. The pain of tragedy reverberates throughout life, often as beauty, joy and fulfillment enlivens it. These images call on us to acknowledge the layered complexity of every moment we live in, or confront.
CvLINDA PEARLMAN KARLSBERG
www.lindapearlmankarlsberg.com Newton, MA 617.969.2231 lindapearlmankarlsberg@gmail.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Diana Stelin Gallery, Brookline, MA. Delicate Revelations
2022 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT. She Spoke Up
2020 Atrium Galley, John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA Skies: Evidence & Metaphor
2016 Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY. Food Plays and Cloud Scapes
2014 Daniels Gallery, Hebrew Senior Life HRCA, Jamaica Plain, MA. Recent Paintings
2013 Main Gallery, Newton Public Library, Newton, MA. Light, Landscapes & Lilies
2011 Treasure Room Gallery, The Interchurch Center, New York, NY. Separate Ways: Transient Visions
Marino Center for Integrative Health, Wellesley, MA. Landscapes & Lilies
2002 Yester House Galleries, Southern VT Arts Center, Manchester, VT. November Solo Exhibitions
1976 Gallery 91, Boston, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA. WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHAT ARE WE? ‘WHERE ARE WE GOING?
American Women Artists, 2024 Annual Juried Online Show
Art Fluent, Online Gallery, Boston, MA. FACE TO FACE
Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston MA. Muse:Womxn’s Art
Diana Stelin Gallery, Brookline, MA. Water Lilies
Grey Cube Gallery, Online Gallery. Portraits 2024
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Exhibition
2023 Alpers Fine Art, Rockport, MA
Salmagundi Club, Skylight Gallery, American Artists Professional League, New York, NY, 95th
Grand National Exhibition
PEG Center for Art and Activism, Newburyport, MA. Heroes Among Us
Art Room Gallery, Online Gallery. Skies 2023
Grey Cube Gallery, Online Gallery. Blue 2023
Biafarin Online Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Nuditas 2023
Zullo Gallery, Medfield MA. 29th Annual Juried Exhibition
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attelboro, MA. Creature Comforts
The Berkshire Art Museum, North Adams, MA. FEMALE
University of Rhode Island Campus Gallery, Providence, RI. Dance with Orange
Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, MA. We Are Not Gods, We Are Women
One Art Space, New York, NY. N.A.W.A. Annual Members’ Exhibition
Cotuit Center For the Arts, Cotuit, MA. We’ve Been Around Forever
Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Contrast
Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. Reflections
The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY. 2023 Members Exhibition
Colors of Humanity Art Gallery, Everett, PA. Skies
N.A.W.A. Online Gallery, New York, NY. Winter Small Works
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Exhibition
2022 Alpers Fine Art, Rockport, MA. Down to Earth & Out to Sea
Atrium Galley, John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA Trust the Process
Gallerium Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Children 2022
American Women Artists Online Gallery, 2022 Spring Online Juried Show
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ. The National Association of Women Artists: Then & Now
Art Fluent, Boston, MA. Elements: Earth, Air, Fire & Water
Gallerium Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Femina (Woman) 2022
Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, Newton, MA. Nourishing the Senses
N.A.W.A. Online Gallery, New York, NY. New Dimensions
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2021 Alpers Fine Art, Rockport, MA. States of Nature
Gallerium Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Children 2021
Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Manipulation is Art and Play
Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. Elemental: Earth Fire, Water, Air 2021
Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Art Forward
Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ. Rewriting Herstory; Women Who Excel in the Written Word and Sports
Virtual Museum of Art, NAWAMA. Some Like It Hot II
Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ. Rewriting Herstory; Women Making the World Better
Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. Food for Thought
O’Hanlon Gallery, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA. Blue
N.A.W.A. Online Gallery, New York, NY. Art Angels
The Hooper Mansion, Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA. Womxn
The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY. 2021 Members Exhibition
N.A.W.A. Online Gallery, New York, NY. Special Women/HERSTORY
The International Arc Salon. Landscapes
N.A.W.A. Online Gallery, New York, NY. The Resilience of Grief
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2020 SOWA Suite C1. Boston, MA. A Year of Blue
Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Speak Up
SOWA Suite C6, Boston, MA. Art and Activism
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. 8 Visions
N.A.W.A. Online Gallery, New York, NY. Small Works and Beyond
Office of Congressman Joe Kennedy II, Washington, DC. Invitational Exhibition of Land and Seascapes
American Women Artists, 2020 Spring Online Juried Show
Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA. Mirror Image
Canvas Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Floating Dreams
Fountain Street Art, Boston, MA. Lust After
Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT.
Royal Nebeker Gallery, Astoria, OR. Au Naturel
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2019 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA. Small Works 2019
Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. Light and Shadow
Harbor Park and Atrium Gallery, John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA. HUE-MAN-IZE
One Art Space, New York, NY. 130th N.A.W.A. Annual Members’ Exhibition
Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. Stormy Weather
Rocky Neck Arts Colony, Gloucester, MA. Extremes and In-Betweens
Steamboat Art Museum, Steamboat Springs, CO. Looking West: An Exhibition Highlighting Works by American Women Artists
Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA. Breaking Point
Alternative Art Space - Canvas Fine Arts , Boston, MA. Places & Spaces
Solace Studio & Gallery, Online Gallery. Surf City, NJ. Femmes
Royal Nebeker Gallery, Astoria, OR. Au Naturel
Bell-ans Center for Creative Arts, Orangeburg, NY. Edward Hopper House Annual Members’ Exhibition
Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Real Time
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2018 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA. Small Works 2018
MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. Strokes of Genius,
The Castle at Park Square, AIDS Action Committee, Boston, MA. ARTCetera
195 Chrystie Street, South Gallery, New York, NY. 129tth N.A.W.A. Annual Members’ Exhibition
Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. Stormy Weather
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Three
Window Gallery, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Faces Not Forgotten NJ
Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA. Natural Force
Harrison Lobdell Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY. Radar: Act II
Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Faculty & Friends
Artlery 160 Gallery, Boston MA. Radar
Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Courting the Uncontrollable, Part II
Five Points Galley, Torrington, CT. Still Life - Untethered
Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, Newton, MA. Parallel Presence
Thompson Gallery at the Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA. With Eyes Open
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2017 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA. Small Works 2017
Historic 1853 William Flagg Homer House; Junior League of Boston Designer Show House, Belmont MA. Blank Canvas
Centennial Gallery, Peabody, MA. Always Speaking
Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY. Art for Aleppo
Laura Coombs Hills Gallery, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA. Upward Trend
Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD. Stormy Weather
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Then and Now 2017: Interpretations of Selections from The Attleboro Arts Museum’s
Permanent Collection
Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME. It’s Not Easy Being Green
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY. Member’s Exhibition
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2016 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA. Small Works 2016
NAWA Online Gallery. A Sight for Sore Eyes
The Cahoon Museum of American Art, Main Gallery, Cotuit, MA. Botanica
The Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD. Rise Up
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY. N.A.W.A. Annual Members’ Exhibition
The Mint Gallery, Bristol, RI
Heftler Visiting Artist Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA. Breaking Ground
Fountain Street Fine Art, Main Gallery, Framingham, MA. Continuum
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Danforth Art Annual 2016 Juried Exhibition
Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA. A Closer Look: works by Linda Pearlman Karlsberg, Allison Paschke, & Nancy Selvage
Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA. Treasures From the Lost and Found
Foundry Art Centre, Saint Charles, MO. Noticing Nature
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY. Members’ Exhibition
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2015 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA. Small Works
Maddocks Gallery, Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA. Strokes of Genius: Women Artists of New England
Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA. Images of Grief and Healing
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Off the Wall
Light Space & Time, Online Art Gallery, Figurative 2015
National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society Online Exhibit, 2015 Spring NOAPS International Exhibition
Powers Gallery, Acton, MA
Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME. Chasing the Light (Finding the Shadow)
Artist Portfolio Magazine, Online Art Exhibit. Portraits 2015
Color of Humanity Art Gallery, Online Gallery. Skies
Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis MD. Stormy Weather
Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY. WCA Transforming Community: Disability, Diversity, Access
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY. Members’ Exhibition
Light Space & Time, Online Art Gallery, Seasons 2015
New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT, Nor’Easter
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2014 MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. Strokes of Genius
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY. N.A.W.A. Annual Exhibition
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft NJ. Who’s Your Mama – Visions of Our Mentors
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA. A Sense of Place
Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA. From the Ground Up: An Exhibition Celebrating the Joy of the Garden
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. See the Light
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Community of Artists
Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA. A Current Vision
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Online Exhibit, 2014 Spring NAOPS International Exhibition
North River Arts Society, Marshfield Hills, MA. Focus on Figures
Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA. Treasures Large & Small
Raebec Gallery, Online Art Gallery. Everything Grows
N.A.W.A. Gallery, New York, NY. Small Works Exhibition
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY. Members’ Exhibition
Light Space & Time, Online Art Gallery, Seasons
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2013 Garrison Art Center Riverside Galleries, Garrison, NY. Small 2D 3D 4D Works Exhibition
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. 8 Visions
N.A.W.A. Online Gallery, New York, NY. D.I.V.A.S.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Landscapes 2013
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY. N.A.W.A. Annual Exhibition
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Botanicals Art Exhibition
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Community of Artists
Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME. Still Point V
Unite Women.org Online Gallery, Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective
Foundry Art Center, Saint Charles, MO. Luminous Language
Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA. 12 INTO 13
America’s Parks, Through the Beauty of Art, Top 100 Online Exhibit
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY. Annual Members’ Exhibition
Upstream Gallery, Dobbs, Ferry, NY. Juried Small Works Show
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2012 The National Steinbeck Center Museum, Salinas, CA. Honoring Women’s Rights: Echoing Visual Voices
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, NY. Small Works NYC
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA. A Sense of Place
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY. N.A.W.A. Annual Exhibition
MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. American Landscapes
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. XL –XS Show
Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME. Still Point IV
Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA. From a Different Point of View
Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA. Song of the Land, JWAN
2011 MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. Small Wonders
Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA. For the Birds
Goggleworks, Center for the Arts, Reading. PA. Inside Outside
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY. N.A.W.A. Annual Exhibition
Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA. Massachusetts Artists 2011: Contemporary Work by the Artists of Massachusetts
Still Point Gallery, Brunswick, ME. Still Life: Ordinary and Extraordinary
Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA. Women’s Caucus for Art Small Works Show
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
2010 Main Street Gallery, Groton NY. National Small Works Painting Exhibition
MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. Small Wonders,
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Hunnewell Hall, Boston, MA. Artists in the Arboretum
MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. 10th Annual American Landscapes
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. Shine, Women’s Caucus for Art
National Arts Club, New York, NY. N.A.W.A. Annual Exhibition
The Interchurch Center Gallery, New York, NY. The Modern Family
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT. Botanical Dreams and Nightmares
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Light and Dark: A Celebration of Contrast
Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME. The Painting Exhibition
2009 Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME The Serious and Playful Sides of Light
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. Small Wonders
South Street Art Gallery, Easton, MD. National Juried Competition Show, American Women Artists
Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME. Autumnal Tints
Salmagundi Club, New York, NY. Annual Exhibition, NAWA
HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State University, University Park, PA. N.A.W.A.120th Anniv. Exhibition
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ. N.A.W.A. at 120
Gallery Wright, Wilmington, VT
2008 Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
Treasure Room Gallery, Interchurch Center, New York, NY. Nature of Things
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. 8 Visions
Goggle Works, Reading, PA. Annual Exhibition, NAWA
The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY. National Small Works Exhibition
New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY. Art Envisions Science
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Painting as Presence
Gallery Wright, Wilmington, VT
2007 Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Members’ Juried Exhibition
Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY. National Small Works Painting Exhibition 2007
Monroe Art Center, Hoboken, NJ. NAWA Annual Exhibition
Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro MA. Small Works
Good Conscience Gallery 848, Southampton, NY. Landscapes
MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis MD. Art on Paper 2007
Larson Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia MO/ Paper in Particular 2007
Gallery Wright, Wilmington, VT
2006 Missouri Governor’s Mansion, Jefferson City, MO. NAOPS Best of 2006, Awards Exhibit
Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO
Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. American Landscapes 2006
Green Trees Gallery, Northfield, MA. Northeast Fine Art Juried Exhibition
Gallery Wright, Wilmington, VT
2005 International Visions Gallery, Washington, D.C. International Small Works Competition
Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. American Landscapes 2005
T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT. Contemporary Drawing 2005
Gallery Wright, Wilmington, VT
2004 Columbia College Lake Campus, Osage Beach, MO. NAOPS Best of 2004
Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO
Shelburne Farms Great Barn, Shelburne. VT. Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting
Wilford and Vogt Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM. 2004 National Drawing Exhibition
Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY. Masquerade: Women’s History Month Exhibition
Gallery Wright, Wilmington, VT
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