Sheri R. Klein is an artist, educator, researcher and author. She has exhibited her works in galleries, museums and universities nationally and internationally. She is the author of Art and Laughter (IB Tauris Press) and is currently working on a book focused on integrated and artistic methods for self-study as professional development. In her teaching, her approach infuses research and inquiry, experimentation, reflection, writing, and images with the aim of personal and authentic expression and rhizomatic learning.
Drawing and writing formed the basis of Klein’s earliest artistic experiences. She began her formal studies as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with a wide range of artist-teachers including many of the Chicago Imagist painters. Klein’s artistic practice has embraced painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, writing and poetic verse. Her work is deeply rooted in the exploration of materials, and personal and autobiographical subjects and iconography that allow for inquiry into rhizomatic pathways.
Throughout all the works, there exists a web of numerous artistic and philosophical influences, including visual art, literature and poetry, anthropology, geography, and philosophy. Drawing on the work of Deleuze & Guattari (1987), the metaphor of rhizomes serves as a model for artistic exploration, learning, and creative growth that occurs in multi-directions, with no beginning and ending, thus, allowing for ideas to connect, and re-direct in endless ways. The subject in her current artistic works is liminality. Liminality is defined as a a third space or state that is marked by indeterminacy, the transitory, ambiguity, hybridity, change, uncertainty, transition, and transformation. This subject takes multiple forms: photography, painting, mixed media collage, journaling, fabric design and experimental poetry. Subject is explored through the theoretical/experiential, visual/textual, literal/poetic, explicit/implicit, and the representational/abstract. The exploration through many directions, and media, allows for a combination of diverse expression into a larger assemblage of work in order to arrive at new meanings.
© Sheri R. Klein 2018
Drawing and writing formed the basis of Klein’s earliest artistic experiences. She began her formal studies as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with a wide range of artist-teachers including many of the Chicago Imagist painters. Klein’s artistic practice has embraced painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, writing and poetic verse. Her work is deeply rooted in the exploration of materials, and personal and autobiographical subjects and iconography that allow for inquiry into rhizomatic pathways.
Throughout all the works, there exists a web of numerous artistic and philosophical influences, including visual art, literature and poetry, anthropology, geography, and philosophy. Drawing on the work of Deleuze & Guattari (1987), the metaphor of rhizomes serves as a model for artistic exploration, learning, and creative growth that occurs in multi-directions, with no beginning and ending, thus, allowing for ideas to connect, and re-direct in endless ways. The subject in her current artistic works is liminality. Liminality is defined as a a third space or state that is marked by indeterminacy, the transitory, ambiguity, hybridity, change, uncertainty, transition, and transformation. This subject takes multiple forms: photography, painting, mixed media collage, journaling, fabric design and experimental poetry. Subject is explored through the theoretical/experiential, visual/textual, literal/poetic, explicit/implicit, and the representational/abstract. The exploration through many directions, and media, allows for a combination of diverse expression into a larger assemblage of work in order to arrive at new meanings.
© Sheri R. Klein 2018
