I’m delighted to learn that an article on my solo exhibition, opening tomorrow at Queenscliff Gallery, has been published in Issue #59 of ARTIST PROFILE magazine:
Deborah Klein's recent body of work, "Rückenfigur," explores the textures, techniques, and teachings that structure hidden histories of women's presence in art – both as creators and as subjects. The work represents a return to, and reflexive appraisal of, one of the artist's enduring themes: the (feminine) figure seen from behind.
In an artist’s statement accompanying the exhibition of this body of work at Queenscliff Gallery, Klein writes that the show “addresses a particularly divisive period in our history, when our state of disconnection – from ourselves, from each other and from the natural world – seems greater than ever before.” Her work’s engagement with ideas of disconnection is certainly timely, and well rounded, coming as it does after years of physical distancing from each other, continual environmental crisis, and new digitally-mediated patterns of social engagement which can leave us deeply isolated – by ourselves or in our echo chambers – just as readily as they can connect us. The disconnections which Klein’s work traces, however, are also historical; taking women as her object of fascination, Klein has spent decades asking how women have been obscured, forgotten, or written over in (art) history…
To read the full article, go here: https://artistprofile.com.au/deborah-klein/
Rückenfigur runs from June 23 - July 10, 2022.
Gallery hours: 10 am - 4 pm. Closed Tuesdays.
P 03 4202 0942 | A 81 Hesse Street Queenscliff VIC 3225