Karri Allrich

Karri Allrich was an expressive New England artist who painted evocative landscapes, seascapes, and nature-inspired abstractions on canvas, panels, and paper. She was a Fine Arts graduate of the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, where she majored in studio painting and photography. Her eclectic artistic influences include Wolf Kahn, Fairfield Porter, Forrest Moses, and Helen Frankenthaler.

From the Copley Society of Boston and The Cahoon Museum of American Art to the Portland Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, and Seattle Design Center in the Pacific Northwest, Karri exhibited her work in juried, group and solo gallery shows in New York, NY; Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins, CO; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Boston, Wellfleet, Dennis, and Orleans, Massachusetts.

Her work is in private, public and corporate collections, including Nordstrom Inc, Horchow, Claire Murray, and The Town of Mashpee. 

Karri’s work was featured in an article and as the cover of the 2023 Cape Cod Arts Annual. She was chosen as an Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Pops by the Sea Commemorative Artist, and has been featured in Cape Cod Life, Cape Women, The Review, and House Beautiful. Her artwork has also been featured in the set designs of the television series Grimm, and the David Tennant film, Bad Samaritan.

From 2013 to 2020, Ms. Allrich was commissioned by Nordstrom to create large scale site-specific paintings, on view at select Nordstrom stores in the United States and Canada.

After living on Cape for decades, and later exploring Santa Fe, Southern California, the PNW and Austin scenes, she now resides back on the east coast, working in the quiet woods and wilds of Northeast Connecticut with fellow artist Steve Allrich. They frequently made road-trips to their favorite hiking and painting spots on Cape Cod, finding inspiration and creative renewal there in all four seasons.

Karri Allrich passed in December of 2025