"Balance 2"



"Nest 2"

Karen Klein is a visual artist and a dancer. She has had eight solo exhibitions, including those of her wood sculpture at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and the Cast Iron Gallery in New York City. Her work, "the intimate life of trees" was shown with the poetry of Marguerite Bouvard at the Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center in Waltham and at the Morse Library in Natick. Her sculptures, drawings, and artist's books have been shown in juried and invitational exhibitions, including "The Space of Speech" at the Boston Public Library, Main Branch; the nationally traveling "Women of the Book"; with the New England Sculptors at museums and galleries regionally; with the Studios Without Walls in Mattapan and in Brookline. Reproductions of her drawings have been published in books from the University of Oklahoma Press, Oxford University Press, Beacon Press, McGraw Hill, and in poetry magazines and anthologies in the United States and Canada. Her haiku, haibun, and haiga have been published in various journals and anthologies nationally and internationally. She is a member of Prometheus Dance Elders Ensemble and has performed additionally in dances by Daniel McCusker, Emily Beattie, & Kee Chin.

"Stripping V"