STEPHAN MARC KLEIN
I have been sketching and making art on and off for all of my adult life, since my undergraduate education as an architect in the late 1950s.
What interests me the most at present about creating art, besides the shear visceral pleasure of making things, of putting pencil or pen or brush or all of them to paper, and of manipulating images on the computer, is the aesthetic tension or energy generated in the borderlands between the abstract and the representational, between individual work and reproduction, and between analog and digital processes. I enjoy creating images that result from working back and forth between the computer and the handmade.
Since my wife, artist Anna Oliver and I made our home in the Berkshires three years ago, I have been entranced by its beauty. My work is, in part, a visual rhapsody to the area. Lately I have also been influenced by the black and white woodcuts in a small show I saw a few years ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the early 20th century French artist, Felix Vallotton.
I have been sketching and making art on and off for all of my adult life, since my undergraduate education as an architect in the late 1950s.
What interests me the most at present about creating art, besides the shear visceral pleasure of making things, of putting pencil or pen or brush or all of them to paper, and of manipulating images on the computer, is the aesthetic tension or energy generated in the borderlands between the abstract and the representational, between individual work and reproduction, and between analog and digital processes. I enjoy creating images that result from working back and forth between the computer and the handmade.
Since my wife, artist Anna Oliver and I made our home in the Berkshires three years ago, I have been entranced by its beauty. My work is, in part, a visual rhapsody to the area. Lately I have also been influenced by the black and white woodcuts in a small show I saw a few years ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the early 20th century French artist, Felix Vallotton.
