Carla Klein

With her latest paintings Carla Klein continues her exploration of the relationship between painting and photography and the layers of mediation involved in both creating and interpreting images. Exquisitely rendered, this latest body of work is the first in which Klein has explored the use of color beyond her muted blue-gray palette, layering reds, yellows, and oranges to create intensely vibrant and arresting compositions. Based on photographs from the artist's archive, each composition pushes the original image towards abstraction while maintaining a close relationship to the photograph itself. Traces of the imaging process appear in many of these new works, and the use of color re-contextualizes contemporary digital photography’s use of filters, color effects and manipulation.