Karina is a fine artist whose focuses are both figurative sculpture and photography. Karina resides and works in San Francisco. Her childhood years were spent in Riga, Latvia, which is beautiful and historical architectural gem of a city.

As a child Karina was always drawing and dreaming. After emigrating from Latvia to the United States, during high school Karina discovered the joys of clay. Hand building was the first step, and art quickly became one of Karina's major's in college. Her second major in Art complimented Karina's curiosity about the world and human dynamics that led her to her first major in Intercultural Studies. Karina's undergraduate art work focused on two topics that each culminated in a show. The first was focused on the natural female form, and consisted of organically inspired semi-abstract sculptures of the female torso. The second, "Homeless Children", featured simple busts of children and was intended to both move the viewer emotionally and to bring attention to the tragedy of child homelessness.

During her graduate work, Karina finally began to study anatomy, figure structure, figure modeling and drawing. Karina's goal has been to be able to communicate in realistic figurative sculpture all of the beauty and poignancy of the human form. After many years of study, Karina's dream of sculpting people as they are is slowly becoming true, and she is nearing the end of her graduate studies. For her final graduate project, Karina will be producing a three figure piece intended as a proposal for a public monument. The piece will feature three female figures meant to both be beautiful and to depict several values that Karina feels are very important: kindness, stewardship, and curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge.

In all of her work, Karina hopes to catch a human moment in time and capture it in clay. Capturing that moment is a labor of love. Classical sculpture creation is an involved process; to produce a finished piece, the sculptor has to figure model the piece in clay, create a mold of the piece for casting, cast the piece into a material such as bronze or resin, and then finish the piece with a patina.

To Karina, the ability of the medium of sculpture to communicate with the viewer epitomizes the very most important and basic principles of the fine arts. Karina hopes to bring joy, hope and beauty to the world with her art work, while doing her part to foster the core humanistic values, and in the process, to enjoy each stage of the sculpture's creation.

Karina is dedicated to the preservation of the figurative fine arts. She continues to study the methods and approaches of the Beaux-Arts, Renaissance, Greek, and Roman periods, and plans to continue these studies for the rest of her days.