DEBORAH KLOTZ

About the Exhibition

PARALLAX (object+-subject) (expand+-compress) featured iron prints, compressed and expanded cast fiber structures, copper and steel woven lace surfaces, roots, and wood wheels with veils of poured pulp, as well as an excerpt from a large scale installation of imaged objects which fused digital and analog texture, “Fungus on Spineboards” (last shown at the Decordova Museum at the seminal show “The Computer in the Studio” c1995.) Deborah’s works respond to the more ancestral sculptural presence of a time-shifted yet persistent narrative of the Spineboards.

About The Artist

Deborah Klotz is an object and image-maker who explores the process by responding to a sequence: object/response/action/repeat. Her work in the upcoming solo show is a visual and material dialogue with the practice and concept of “drawing”: inverting and torquing hierarchies of subject and surface, form and image, material and intent/expectation, object scale and visual /conceptual weight. Working with both physical objects, (cast paper drawings, large scale image transfers, magnetically charged skins of paper, and compressed sculptural shapes), as well as ephemeral states of shifting light, air currents, and wall/ floor/ object transitions, she invites traditional materials of paper, steel, and wood, to fuse with non-traditional techniques. The visual expanse we see as the landscape can be built by shifting how we see interior work. Attention to the ground, to close observation and material sensation is invited with copper floor formats and silkscreened “carpets” on concrete.

Since 1994, she teaches undergraduates and graduate students in the Studio Foundation and Fibers departments at Massachusetts College of Art where she helps to coordinate the papermaking studio and classes. At Southern Maine Community College, Deborah teaches drawing and 3-D Design. She leads workshops on light structures, casting, and has been a visiting artist/critic at Bowdoin College, Bates College and other New England institutions. Her work is in private and public collections in the U.S., Australia, and Israel. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, and a B.F.A. (Sculpture) and M.F.A. (3-D) from MassArt.