One might ask: Why travel to a gallery when high-resolution images exist online? The answer lies in texture. Karin Spolnikova galleries are the only places where you can see the subtle metallic undertones in her prints, the actual size of her deer-girl canvases (some exceed 4 feet), and the depth of her resin-coated originals.

Furthermore, gallery curators provide context. In a Karin Spolnikova gallery, you learn that the recurring motif of the broken pocket watch represents the artist’s struggle with clinical depression, or that a specific shade of cyan is derived from a 19th-century photographic process called cyanotype.

For collectors in the United Kingdom, Scream Gallery in central London represents Spolnikova’s darker, more gothic series. This gallery focuses on the emotional intensity of her work, pairing her art with Victorian and steampunk aesthetics.