Karen Crouse says, "I have been merging self portraits with images of nature. It started as a series using imagery of stars and space, encapsulating the Carl Sagan quote "we are all star stuff".

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

Then the concept expanded into our relationships with all things in nature: trees, fire, water. We are all star stuff, we will all end as star stuff as we are all interconnected. "We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

Karen Crouse is a photographer based near Baltimore, MD. Beginning with a darkroom printing class when she was 8, Karen continued her love of film developing and printing throughout high school and college, earning her BFA in Photography from Shepherd University.

Since Karen has recently returned to photography, she has been in multiple group exhibits including ArtDoc Magazine and F-Stop Magazine online exhibits. She was also a 2019 Silver Award winner in the San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition and a 2021 Chromatic Award Honorable Mention.


JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS

2021
Chromatic Awards, Honorable Mention: Conceptual, Amateur
Light in Darkness, ArtDoc Magazine Online Gallery
Landscapes, Honorable Mention, Praxis Photo Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Secret Life of Color, Praxis Photo Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Expressive Floral, ArtDoc Magazine, Online Gallery
Blue Skies, Don't Take Pictures, Online Gallery
Open Theme, F-Stop Magazine, Online Gallery
black/white, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
The Human Portrait, Dallas Center for Photography, Online Gallery
A Show of Hands, Don't Take Pictures, Online Gallery

2020
Contemporary Landscape, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
From a Seed...a World of Botanicals, New York Center for Photographic Art
Portraits, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Portals, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
 
2019
Winter, Analog Forever Magazine
The Photo Review, 2019 Competition Web Galleries
Silver Award Winner, 2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition
Bug Off, Don't Take Pictures, Online Gallery
Trees: Life in the Slow Lane, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Online gallery
Intentional Spaces, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT


www.karencrousephotography.com/
https://www.instagram.com/karen_crouse_photography/

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