Klein’s initial photograph and its subsequent abstraction represent a layered approach to capturing a moment in time, poetically revealing the levels of mediation that frame our contemporary experience of the world and questioning whether the depiction of “reality” is possible. Exquisitely rendered, these topographies form a part of the ongoing documentation of her journeys, and taken together the paintings create an expressionistic travelogue, enlarged from the negative to the snapshot, and from the snapshot to the canvas. In a palette of near-black, inky blue, soft gray and cold white, Klein captures the essence of these uninhabited territories a stormy waterfront, a patch of empty parking lot, an open expanse of the Salt Lake in Utah, each location seems simultaneously familiar and utterly foreign under her brush, at once stark and dramatic, severe and serene. ![]() Using her own photography as the primary source imagery for her most recent works, Klein’s dynamic compositions depict unpopulated terrain, shot by the artist during her travels. These new pieces, which comprise Carla’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, continue to explore and expand on the artist’s signature fusion of the abstract and the hyper real, and in the artist’s words, “create a form of painting where contradictions and oppositions are accommodated and merge into one overall result.” Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is very pleased to present an exceptional selection of panoramic landscape paintings by Carla Klein in Gallery one.
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