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 Ada Klein was born in Toronto and raised near Dallas. Her interest in art began at a very young age. She studied painting and drawing at the University of North Texas for a year before transferring to Otis and studied abroad in Florence for a semester. She graduated with honors, receiving an interdisciplinary degree in painting and environmental design.
Though Klein works in a variety of mediums, all of her work deals with the primary theme of mediated images and our varying relationships to these images. She investigates the extent to which living in a mediated culture affects our understanding of the outside world, and in turn, ourselves. Her goal is to use art’s unique visual potency to aid in understanding these relationships.
Exhibitions:
“Out of Action,” Otis College of Art and Design, Bolsky Gallery. Los Angeles CA, 2004
“Sight, Sites, Size Sighs,” Otis College of Art and Design, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, 2005
NADA Art Fair, Mary Goldman Gallery Miami FL, 2005
Collections
Elena Steel collection
Tourism is a force that has touched the cultures of countries throughout the world. Aside from it’s economic impact to these places, it also inevitably changes them. It is not unusual that the places that are the most alluring to visitors because of their unique character and remote locations are the very places that eventually become overrun by tourists, causing those places to feel more like a section of Disney land, than a rich historic destination. In this body of work I investigated the many paradoxical relationships between foreign visitors and the landscapes that their presence change, both natural and rural. The work centers on the idea that tourists’ continuing presence is source for change, and yet the life support of towns; forever foreign to and yet very much a part of these visual landscapes.
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Clamming
(2005)
Oil on canvas over wood panel
24”x 36”
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