Q&A with Hedya Klein
We gain insight into life with graphic and printmaking in the visual arts in the series of Q&A invitations from the intaglio workshop. This time, we are given an insight into Hedya Klein's approach to artistic practice, as well as her experiences at the LeRoy Neiman Centre for Print Studies at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York.
Hedya Klein is an artist living and working in Vermont and Austria. She received an MFA from Columbia University. Recent exhibitions include Banner Flags of Resistance and Revolution, Mid-America Print Council Remote Symposium, Kent State University, Ohio; In Der Kubatur Des Kabinetts, Fluc, Vienna; Austria, and DRAWN (OVER) Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia. She is the Fletcher Professor of The Arts in the Department of Studio Art at Middlebury College and co-runs Hotelpupik, an international residency in Austria.
„My recent works on paper engage formal and abstract language. I embrace direct approaches such as rubbings, collage, printing, and pochoir. I work intuitively as the piece crystalizes and often cannibalizes older works, as I look for shapes, patterns, textures, and colors and place them over new prints and drawings. The work gains momentum: shadows intermingle with celestial bodies, and frosty colors mask light. Flat dry pigments fuse with transparent films of paint, while surfaces and shapes allude to barriers, bodies, or skins.“