Karl grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania to a PhD research Physicist father and an accomplished Watercolor artist mother. He holds a BFA in design and crafts/glass from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia. His work has been included in the Corning Museum of Glass, a showcase of significant works in glass.
The artwork of Karl reveals the mind of an explorer creating in the medium of glass. He has designed ways to join components into an organic-shaped web or network. These constructions include blown, fused, and slumped glass and are flexible – able to move like heavy drapery panels that reflect light and cast shadows. The glass elements reference forms from many spheres, and like webbed redwood roots, the network is flexible and stronger than the individual. Karl has always enjoyed the place where science and art meet.
His recent works exhibit a notable change in reflected or transmitted light and cast large shadows onto adjacent surfaces, creating a dramatic impression as if they were part of an Indonesian shadow puppet theater of the microscopic world.
