About Karla

An American painter with a contemporary hand.

Karla Cohen is an American painter whose work moves between portraiture, interiors, landscape and abstraction. Her paintings combine flattened space, elongated figurative forms, saturated color and visible gesture, drawing on modern European painting while retaining an unmistakably contemporary hand.

Karla is a Boston-area painter and filmmaker whose practice spans large-scale acrylic works, mixed media and film. Her work has been exhibited in Boston, France, Singapore, London and across the United States.

Across figures, windows, coastlines, flowers, objects and works shaped by Jewish life, she brings structure and spontaneity into conversation.