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Anne Klein
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
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Working in the expanded field of printmaking, I utilize a conversational process in which compositions emerge somewhere between intention and errors in translation. The democratic nature of this medium appeals to reflections on the relationship multiples have with access, capital, and the machine. I deconstruct images sourced from a mythologically idealized American past and troubled present, collaging them to draw new narratives that subvert them from their original contexts to capture a prevailing sense of isolation, anxiety, and paranoia built into the mechanics of late-stage capitalism. The resulting compositions collide with speed and rhythm, depicting information entropy in infinite replication.
I explore the fallibility of photographic imagery and questions of authenticity in the production of multiples. Utilizing memetic forms as constructs for my compositions, I examine post-modern modes of communication in a hyper-connected world of dynamic symbology. A visual language of marks reacting to found imagery pivots between clarity, recognition, and ambiguity resulting in narrative relationships in the work that are largely dictated by what viewers psychologically project onto the work. Through this practice of active viewing, I emphasize the ways in which we frame images in our biases rather than derive truth from them.