Filoli 1 Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

Lauren Karp is a Nashville-based photographer and visual artist. Her IMAGINATURE images are abstract works exploring nature, transformation and time. Karp’s work invites viewers to see the beauty around us in new and exciting ways. Lauren has always had a genuine connection to the natural world. Upon graduation from college, she pursued a decade-long career in the art publishing industry. Lauren began as a Product Manager and rose to the rank of Art Director for North America. She was inspired by world-renowned artists and photographers to return to her own forms of artistic expression. Lauren’s love of art and nature and her passion for photography converged in 2011, sparking her journey to capture images of wildlife in their habitats. In developing her craft, Lauren took hundreds of thousands of photos while hiking on diverse terrain in varied locations. The challenge of photographing a subject in motion in a picturesque environment all merging into a unique moment in time inspired her to continue creating new bodies of work. She began showing and selling her photographs to collectors in 2018.  Influenced by ever-changing surroundings and seasonality, Lauren expanded her vision beyond the realism featured in her wildlife portfolio and began experimenting with abstract landscape photography. In this she found a connection to the Earth’s heartbeat, and a way to express the beauty, energy, and light she sees through her lens. Paying homage to her earlier work and to evoke a sense of time and place, she began layering photos of animals and flowers onto their abstract origins. Lauren coined the term IMAGINATURE to describe the fleeting essence of a moment captured and reinvented with her mind’s eye. Her process evolved further as she transformed each original to form a myriad of colorful patterned pieces, and the IMAGINATURE Collection was born. Lauren’s vision expanded to include bringing her still photographs to life through audiovisual performances incorporating images that transform through movement, accompanied by original musical compositions. Her IMAGINATURE in Motion productions represent the kinetic ebb and flow of the world around us. Karp’s work can be found in private and public collections in the US and abroad.