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We're proud to present this special online viewing room to highlight Karen Miranda Rivadeneira's new series "MEDA" - the gallery exhibition of these works runs through June 30, 2021.
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The Calling, 2018 Archival pigment print from a large format paper negative
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Available Work in "Meda" Series
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The Techniques
Rivadeneira paints her visions using a variety of photographic techniques. She photographs her subjects with a large format camera and uses both an old-fashioned paper negative process favored by master photographers such as William Henry Fox Talbot and a modern color film process.
Whereas large format color film negative achieves a sharp and detailed image, that negative printed on paper gives creates the option to produce a more ethereal image with a very visible grain. Other techniques, such as long exposure, printing with special pigments, and digital composite allows her to explore a more ethereal realm. Using soft contours and blue tint tones, her female subjects evoke Victorian paintings as well as the pictorialism and cyanotype images of the early days of photography. -
Other Works
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira1000 Ceder, 2019Archival pigment print from a large format paper negative30 x 24 in
76.2 x 61 cmEdition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofsCLICK for Details -
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Gathering Roots and Holding Up the Sky, 2019CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, 8 Feet Walking, 2019CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Bisti DeNaZin, 2019CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda RivadeneiraClavicules, 2018Mineral pigment on paper38 x 24 in
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Ice Crown, 2018CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Ix Balam I, 2019CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda RivadeneiraMud Woman Gazing, 2019Archival pigment print from a large format paper negative30 x 24 in
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Ollin Mecatl II, 2018CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda RivadeneiraArtemisia , 2019Archival pigment print from a large format paper negative30 x 24 in
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Sentinel, 2018CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Sentinel Gathering , 2018CLICK for Details
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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira
About the Artist
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira (Born in New York City, 1983) was raised in both the United States and Ecuador. She earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and holds a post-graduate degree for her studies in photography at the Danish School of Journalism. Nominated for Prix Pictet in 2019, her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, SC, the United Nations, and the Photographic Museum of Humanity, among others. She has been an artist in residence in the US, France, and Italy and has taught photography at the California Institute of the Arts and the City University of New York. Rivadeneira has received multiple awards and fellowships including the Photographic Fellowship at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, the New York Foundation for Arts Fellow in Photography, and the Individual Artist grant by the Queens Council of the Arts. Her first monograph Other Stories/Historias Bravas was published in 2017 by Autograph ABP. Her work was featured in the Native America issue of Aperture Magazine (no. 240) last fall and was included in the book Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer published this year in January.
