About Karen
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
Tidal Dreams
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"
The Emotional Landscape
I draw my inspiration from 19th century landscape painting ranging from Thomas Cole, George Innes and The Hudson River School painters. Similar to these painters, I interpret the landscape and how it affects me emotionally and spiritually. My approach is not about capturing reality, but creating a neo-Romantic world reflective of my memory and imagination.
The Emotional Landscape was exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Stoneham, Massachussets from July-October 2018.
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The Emotional Landscape solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of PhotographyInstallation photograph from The Emotional Landscape solo exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Stoneham, MA from July-October 2018.
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First Light, Platte Clovearchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 17x22""
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Shenandoah Springarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 22x17"
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Fog, Dolly Sodsarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 22x17"
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Along The Pondarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 17x17"
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Late Winter, The Beaver Pondarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 17x17"
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The Conversationarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 22x17"
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Resurrectionarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 33x17"
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Autumn, Tuckahoe Creekarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper
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Early Morning ,The Hollowarchival pigment on Bahnmühle Bamboo, 33x17"
The Emotional Landscape (continued)
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Winter, The North Meadowarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 11x11"
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Solsticearchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 11x11"
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Late Afternoon, Kent Narrowsarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 14x11"
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Autumn, Black Waterarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 14x11"
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Autumn, Cash Lake Marsharchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 14x11"
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The Red Treearchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 14x11"
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Late Afternoon, Robertson Mountainarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 13x11"
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Artist Rockarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 14x11"
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Days End, Trout Run Overlookarchival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, 14x11"