We are very sad to say Karin passed away in June 2021. Karin was one of the original dozen founding members of DPW back in 2006 and had been with us ever since. She was a dear friend and we greatly miss her generous spirit and her contagious wit.

As a memorial to her and her beautiful art, we will keep her DPW Gallery live and we will show a different painting, of the over 1,900 works she has on DPW, each day on our What's New page.

Karin Jurick is a self-taught artist whose work is held in private collections all over the country. She attributes her talent and exposure to different mediums to her mother, Lee, an artist who sold her works at traveling art shows in the Northeast. As a child, Karin's family traveled to many countries, living in Thailand, Philadelphia, and Chicago, before settling in Atlanta in 1979, where her parents opened a picture-framing shop and art gallery. It was Karin's intention to pursue a career as an illustrator, but the unexpected deaths of her parents led her to continue running the family business. Not until several years ago did she begin painting with oils - observing works done by such artists as Wayne Thiebaud, Lucian Freud, Burton Silverman, Ken Auster and Ben Aronson as a starting point for her pursuit to paint with courage and skill.

Artist's Statement

I enjoy observing and painting the daily events of ordinary people - whether it's a glimpse into someone's private moment viewing a work of art, commuting to work, cooking in a restaurant kitchen, relaxing on a park bench - I find people, in their most candid moments, my greatest inspiration. I find myself interested in painting everything really - from food to landscapes to still-lifes... I would really like to paint it all. I am an avid fan of realism - but strive to paint with loose, expressive brush strokes, and use daring, vivid colors to achieve paintings with life and spontaneity.