Karen Mosbacher is an interdisciplinary artist whose work integrates painting, photography, installation, sculpture, and collaborative performance. Influenced by synesthetic perception, she approaches sound and emotional states as chromatic structures, translating music, memory, and affect into visual form. This perceptual framework shapes the tonal and emotional architecture of her work across media.

Her practice is anchored in two major bodies of work. SŌ SÓ MĒ: The Science of the Sound of Music and Emotions present large-scale chromesthetic paintings that explore the physics and felt experience of sound through expansive compositions reaching up to 6’ x 7’. These works investigate how music inhabits the body and how emotion can be rendered structurally in color and form.

From 2020–2024, Mosbacher developed Collateral BEAUTY, a four-year body of work that marked a significant expansion of her practice into interactive installation, photography, and sculptural intervention. Examining silence, endurance, and embodied sovereignty, this series deepened her interdisciplinary integration and laid the conceptual groundwork for her current work.

The Work of Resilience: Living Systems extends that trajectory. Rooted in painting and expanded through altered photography, material intervention, installation, and collaboration with dancers, this body of work examines resilience as interdependence — considering how individuals, communities, and natural systems sustain one another through connection, care, and creative presence.

Mosbacher’s paintings translating the compositions of Dr. Ofer Ben-Amots are archived in The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. She was part of a Heartland Emmy®–winning team for the short documentary essay I Paint Music, serving as writer, art director, on-screen artist, and curator of its musical score, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the script of Collateral BEAUTY: No More Silence. She is represented by JRB Art at The Elms in Oklahoma City and Platte Collections in Colorado Springs, with exhibitions in Europe, London, and across the United States. She is actively seeking gallery representation and commissioned projects.

Mosbacher lives and works in Colorado Springs, Colorado.