Anne Klein

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Anne Klein

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

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Art
Little Hall
  • TR 3:30pm - 5:00pm (Little Hall)

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Working in the expanded field of printmaking, I utilize a conversational process in which compositions emerge somewhere between intention and errors in translation. The democratic nature of this medium appeals to reflections on the relationship multiples have with access, capital, and the machine. I deconstruct images sourced from a mythologically idealized American past and troubled present, collaging them to draw new narratives that subvert them from their original contexts to capture a prevailing sense of isolation, anxiety, and paranoia built into the mechanics of late-stage capitalism.  The resulting compositions collide with speed and rhythm, depicting information entropy in infinite replication. 

I explore the fallibility of photographic imagery and questions of authenticity in the production of multiples. Utilizing memetic forms as constructs for my compositions, I examine post-modern modes of communication in a hyper-connected world of dynamic symbology.  A visual language of marks reacting to found imagery pivots between clarity, recognition, and ambiguity resulting in narrative relationships in the work that are largely dictated by what viewers psychologically project onto the work.  Through this practice of active viewing, I emphasize the ways in which we frame images in our biases rather than derive truth from them.

MFA, University of Iowa, 2024

MA, University of Iowa, 2023

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017

Traditional and experimental printmaking processes, alternative photographic processes.

School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, 2022-2024

2024 Solo Exhibition, True Believers, Frogman’s Print Workshops, Iowa City, IA

2024 Shop Talk, The Portland Museum, Louisville, KY

2024 Solo Exhibition, Ersatz Good, Levitt Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2023 Print Houston Press Forward, BOX13 Artspace, Houston, TX

2023 Solo Exhibition, Sunday’s Clown, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2023 RISO, BICA Essex Art Center, Buffalo, NY (curated by Robert Rusch)

2023 Reclaimed and Recycled, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA

2023 Paper + Clay, Tippetts and Eccles Gallery, Logan, UT (juried by Jenny Schmid)

2022 Kiss Pressure, Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2022 Two-person Show, Object Permanence, Livingroom Gallery, Chicago, IL

2022 Frogman’s 40th Anniversary Show, Mule Barn, Omaha, NE (curated by Laura Burke and Jeremy Menard)

2022 Speculative Futures, Ruffin Hall at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and George L. Moss Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2022 Paper + Clay, Tippetts and Eccles Gallery, Logan, UT (juried by Kelli Sinner)

2021 Hang In There, Baby, Levitt Gallery, Iowa City, IA 

2021 Untold Stories, The Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland

2019 Small Print Show, New Wave, Chicago, IL

2017 Pure Unfiltered Spite, Free Range Gallery, Chicago, IL 

2016 Twenty-One Minus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL