ABOUT ARTISTS : Tammi Campbell, Marc Dennis, Olive Diamond, Caleb Hahne Quintana, Anabel Juárez, Ileana García Magoda, Jenny Morgan, Jordan Nassar, Soumya Netrabile, Alvin Ong, Meeson Pae, Gideon Rubin, Krzysztof Strzelecki, Sigrid Sandström, Fabian Treiber, Sarah Ann Weber, Janet Werner, Erin Wright, Gloria Klein

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Gloria Klein is an American abstract painter whose mature works are rooted in repetition and systemic order. Guided by an enigmatic and self-determined logic, her 1970s works feature patterned fields that push against the limits of comfort. Repeated diagonal strokes form dense frequencies evoking psychological or urban chaos: the jostling of bodies in a crowd, visual overload of signage, or coded language of digital information. Color is the carrier and distributor of meaning; she visualizes the complexity of people and society – its problems and solutions, movements, feelings, and experiences – through pure abstraction. Klein's obsessive pursuit of order exposes a tension between the cool authority of a system and the messy realities of lived experience. Formulas falter and the rigidity of the grid yields to the stress testing of her palette. Gloria Klein (b. 1936, Brooklyn, NY; d. 2021) began her adult education with a BA in Economics at the Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Following which she attended the Brooklyn Museum School of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and finally in 1970 she enrolled at Hunter College where she took classes with conceptual artist Robert Barry and Robert Swain. She obtained her MA in art from Hunter College in 1973. Klein exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout the 1970s and 80s including at Hunter College, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; P.S.1., Long Island City, NY; 112 Workshop, New York, NY; and A.I.R., New York, NY, among many others. Klein's forthcoming exhibition Crisis Management opens at Anat Ebgi New York in January 2026.

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In our American show, leading galleries from five continents show significant works by masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars.

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