About Karen
Baltimore City
Karen Klinedinst is a visual artist using photography to explore themes of memory, place, nature and the environment. Using both digital and alternative photographic processes, she creates richly layered images that combine the real with the imagined.
Her work has been exhibited both locally and nationally at venues such as Fleckenstein Gallery, Massoni Gallery, Creative Alliance, Maryland Art Place, University of Maryland Global Campus, Center for Photographic Arts, Center for Fine… more
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The Emotional Landscape: Gallery 2
The work in this project gallery was included in my solo exhibition at the Greenbelt Community Art Gallery from March-June 2015.
Exhibition Statement:
All of us have a deep connection to places and landscapes from our past and present. Through our memories, we see these places not as they are, but through the filter of emotion. The work in this exhibit explores the emotional qualities of landscapes where I feel a deep connection.
Exhibition Statement:
All of us have a deep connection to places and landscapes from our past and present. Through our memories, we see these places not as they are, but through the filter of emotion. The work in this exhibit explores the emotional qualities of landscapes where I feel a deep connection.
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Early Morning, The Hollow ©2014iPhoneography, archival pigment print on bamboo-fiber paper, 33.5x17"
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Autumn, Tuckahoe Creekarchival pigment print on bamboo-fiber paper, 33x17"
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To The Water's Edge ©2014iPhoneography, archival pigment print on bamboo-fiber paper, 16x16"
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Bay View ©2014iPhoneography, archival pigment print on bamboo-fiber paper, 16x16"
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The CrossingiPhoneography, archival pigment print on bamboo-fiber paper, 16x20"
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Late Afternoon, Kent NarrowsiPhoneography, archival pigment print on bamboo-fiber paper, 20x16"
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Winter's Swamp ©2014iPhoneography, archival pigment print on bamboo-fiber paper, 30x17"
Tidal Dreams
The Tidal Dreams series explores the concept of wilderness in the urban environment and challenges our perception of Baltimore’s urban landscape.
This series was photographed at Black Marsh Natural Area on the east side of Baltimore, on property once owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company. The property was once used as a hunting preserve for the steel company’s executives. For almost a century, the Bethlehem Steel Company was one Baltimore’s biggest employers and one of the northern Chesapeake Bay’s biggest polluters; yet, they were good stewards of this particular place. When Bethlehem Steel closed, they sold the property for 5.3 million dollars to the state of Maryland.
Black Marsh Natural Area is considered one of the finest examples of a tidal marsh on the upper Chesapeake Bay, despite being surrounded by an industrial, urban environment. It’s a landscape of memories, and a reminder of what the natural landscape of Baltimore was like prior to industrialization. Climate change, rising sea levels and surrounding development threaten this fragile ecosystem home to native wetland plants and rare, threatened or endangered birds.
The series’ richly layered landscapes blur the lines between fantasy and reality. They are printed on translucent vellum and backed with white gold or silver leaf, giving the intimate prints dimension, luminosity, and a little bit of magic.
The Tidal Dreams series was exhibited in March 2019 at Project 1628 in Baltimore. Two pieces from the Tidal Dream series are part of the permanent colleaction of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
This series was photographed at Black Marsh Natural Area on the east side of Baltimore, on property once owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company. The property was once used as a hunting preserve for the steel company’s executives. For almost a century, the Bethlehem Steel Company was one Baltimore’s biggest employers and one of the northern Chesapeake Bay’s biggest polluters; yet, they were good stewards of this particular place. When Bethlehem Steel closed, they sold the property for 5.3 million dollars to the state of Maryland.
Black Marsh Natural Area is considered one of the finest examples of a tidal marsh on the upper Chesapeake Bay, despite being surrounded by an industrial, urban environment. It’s a landscape of memories, and a reminder of what the natural landscape of Baltimore was like prior to industrialization. Climate change, rising sea levels and surrounding development threaten this fragile ecosystem home to native wetland plants and rare, threatened or endangered birds.
The series’ richly layered landscapes blur the lines between fantasy and reality. They are printed on translucent vellum and backed with white gold or silver leaf, giving the intimate prints dimension, luminosity, and a little bit of magic.
The Tidal Dreams series was exhibited in March 2019 at Project 1628 in Baltimore. Two pieces from the Tidal Dream series are part of the permanent colleaction of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
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The Egret TrilogyThe Egret Trilogy, a trio of archival pigment prints on vellum with white gold leaf, 8.5x11" each
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The Hunterarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 8.5x11"
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The Congregationarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 8.5x11"
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The Scoutarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 8.5x11"
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Late Day, Late Augustarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 12.5x18"
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Summer's Wanearchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 12.5x18"
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Shelterarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 12.5x18"
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All That Remainsarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 12.5x18"
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The Edge Of Dayarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 11x8.5"
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Remain in Lightarchival pigment print on vellum and white gold leaf, 11x8.5"