Karl Herber, submitted artwork
Karl Herber
Visual Art
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Born in 1971, the youngest of five kids, Karl Herber has learned, through art and photography, to embrace those qualities that make him who he is. A year spent in Austria during college laid the foundation for his development as an artist. There, he studied photography, German, art history, and printmaking. Over the following thirty-plus years, he worked as a professional photographer, won awards, and exhibited and sold work in Europe and the United States. He currently lives in Minneapolis, in a house filled with light and art, and two tall women who inspire him to be better each day. As an avid Nordic skier and runner, he can appreciate the change of seasons and morning light; enough to offset the effects of screen time and monitor glow.
Works
Karl Herber, submitted artwork
My work responds to and makes tangible what I see and experience. I go out into the world and capture what catches my eye. I then refine and enhance that into a tangible form (the print), retaining the essence that attracted me in the first place. Long ago, I completed a body of work entitled “Sitting Standing Walking,” after realizing that my best, most authentic work came from these simple activities. With that understanding, my work has since become an inquiry into the relationships between memory, my experience, and the creation and existence of the photograph.
