Dawn Kramlich is a queer artist and writer who lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Her artwork has always been text-based, and her artistic practice involves research on semiotics, poetry (especially ekphrasis), Intersectional Feminism, and the history of text-based American art. Kramlich is interested in how our relationship to language and communication has changed due to the internet/contemporary culture and finds that decoding power structures which underlie language use is dire – especially because few things, if any, are as powerful and political as language.
Kramlich earned her BA degree from Muhlenberg College, producing the first cross-major creative honors thesis (paintings + poems) in the history of Muhlenberg’s English and Art departments. She then moved to Philadelphia and received her MFA in Studio Art from Moore College of Art & Design. Kramlich regularly lectures and teaches at multiple institutions, and has shown her work widely in the US and internationally in Ireland.
Encaustic and sharpie on panel
18″ x 24″
2020
Charcoal, sharpie, and encaustic on panel
18” x 53”; Scanned and printed at 7.5ft x 22ft, as installed at the PHL International Airport
2022
Pink Noise Projects 