Karen Klein
Artist Statement:
I love playing with materials, seeing how I can juxtapose them, put them together to make coherent works. I use found things like discarded kitchen shutters, fallen roof slates, wood, embroidery threads, chicken, turkey, and fish bones, as well as the more usual paper, ink, acrylic, wire. Each piece begins as a compositional puzzle, putting disparate materials together to make them relate and make aesthetic sense. Sometimes they come out as artists books, sometimes as relief sculptures. My Homes for Poems series,
for example, makes poetry three-dimensional. To create coherent unity among wildly diverse materials is my goal.
I love playing with materials, seeing how I can juxtapose them, put them together to make coherent works. I use found things like discarded kitchen shutters, fallen roof slates, wood, embroidery threads, chicken, turkey, and fish bones, as well as the more usual paper, ink, acrylic, wire. Each piece begins as a compositional puzzle, putting disparate materials together to make them relate and make aesthetic sense. Sometimes they come out as artists books, sometimes as relief sculptures. My Homes for Poems series,
for example, makes poetry three-dimensional. To create coherent unity among wildly diverse materials is my goal.
Artist Bio:
Karen Klein is a dancer, poet, and visual artist. A member of Prometheus Elders Ensemble and The Steeple Street Poets, she founded and performs with teXtmoVes, a poetry/dance collaborative which unites two of her creative activities. She has been a wood sculptor for many years, exhibiting indoor pieces with the New England Sculptors Association and outdoor installations with Studios Without Walls. Her most recent work brings poetry and sculpture together in her three-dimensional Homes for Poems. She has exhibited
at Galatea Fine Art since the gallery’s inception.
Karen Klein is a dancer, poet, and visual artist. A member of Prometheus Elders Ensemble and The Steeple Street Poets, she founded and performs with teXtmoVes, a poetry/dance collaborative which unites two of her creative activities. She has been a wood sculptor for many years, exhibiting indoor pieces with the New England Sculptors Association and outdoor installations with Studios Without Walls. Her most recent work brings poetry and sculpture together in her three-dimensional Homes for Poems. She has exhibited
at Galatea Fine Art since the gallery’s inception.
