Known for her meditative paintings, Karen Arm (b. 1962) engages in a dialogue between micro and macro; mark and object; and structure and line. Arm meticulously layers and glazes her surfaces, creating vast accumulations of spontaneous marks. Referring to nature as a catalyst for the unknowable, Arm balances the earthly and astral in her paintings to reveal portals to the sublime. Arm lives and works in Shelter Island, NY. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 1985 and her MFA from Columbia University in 1989. She has had six solo exhibitions with P·P·O·W since 1999. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Loong Mah, New York, NY; VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY; Foley Gallery, New York, NY; 56 Henry, New York, NY; Fortnight Institute, New York, NY; the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; among others. In 2002, Arm received a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Painting. From 2012 to 2016, Arm’s works were exhibited in the United States Embassy in Burma as part of the Art in Embassies Program. Her seventh exhibition with P·P·O·W, Night Birds, was on view in Summer 2025.