About
Artist. Designer. Social Gatherer.
Karen Meneghin was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived in Paris, London and New York City for three decades with summer months spent in the upstate NY Catskills.
She studied at Wayne State University (BFA, Printmaking/Painting) with additional figurative studies in New York City at the Art Students League, Grand Central Atelier and Florence Academy/US.
With independent studies in landscape painting, Karen was a Met Copyist (Barbizon: Camille Corot’s “Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau), and workshops with contemporary landscape painters. She recently participated in 2023 Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, 2023 AIS (Brandywine) PA and a third Jeffersonville Winter Rendezvous in Vermont (Cape Ann) in 2024.
Karen’s work has been shown in national juried exhibitions and invitationals including: The Detroit Institute of Arts “Michigan Focus” curated by Grace Hartigan, American Impressionists Society, Atelier at Flowerfield, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Scarab Club, Bannerman Island Gallery and in private collections.
As founder of Zane Grey Plein Air workshops in 2018, Karen has now opened Zane Grey Gallery in Narrowsburg, NY, a stone’s throw from Zane Grey’s home on the Upper Delaware River, as an exhibition event space and teaching studio.
Since 2020, Karen runs the twice weekly Portrait Model Zoom virtual sketch sessions with a roster of international studio models and participating artists.
“The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last – like a friend you welcome.”
That’s Me in the Corner: Met Copyist, Fall 2019, “Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau,” by Camille Corot, The Met Museum, Gallery 803