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Adrienne Klein Short Biography Adrienne Klein is an artist, teacher, curator, and administrator. She has had nine solo exhibitions and has been included in more than fifty exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Her work has been awarded support by the New York State Council for the Arts, the Sally and Milton Avery Foundation, Artists Space, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. A special area of Klein’s interest is the intersection of art and science. Since 2002 she has been co-Director of Science & the Arts at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. She was formerly the editor of the online bulletin of the organization Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI), and managed two international symposia for that organization, held at The Graduate Center in 2001 and 2002. Klein received an Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1998 to further her investigations in art and science. Klein was Director of Rathbone Gallery at Russell Sage College’s Albany, NY campus from 1988 to 1992. She has independently curated exhibitions for, among others, the Gallery Association of New York State, Union College, and New York University. Her exhibition for GANYS, Graphic Alert, an international survey of AIDS poster, was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1998. Klein served on the Board of Governors of the New York Foundation for the Arts from 1992 to 1995. She was a Visiting Artist at the University of Newcastle on Tyne, UK, in 1993. Around my artwork there is often the whiff of a science project. Art may be about qualified observations -- ideas distilled through the artist as an intermediary -- but I have a real attraction to the quantifiable. Things that can be measured or listed offer a reassuring certainty. The devices we invent to measure and organize are a demonstration of our very human curiosity and ingenuity. The same can be said for works of art. Nevertheless, a divide between these pursuits has been described, most notably by the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow, as two distinct cultures, without mutual respect and avenues of communication. For past projects I have borrowed objects from museum collections; from a surveyor’s transit to a stuffed fox. I have also borrowed apparatus from psychologists, chemists, and geologists whose generosity and cooperation is indicative of their willingness to exchange their ideas with artists’; to bridge Snow’s "two cultures." I make artwork that comes from thinking about the crossroads of deduction and intuition, combining the tools of the scientist and the artist. Among the topics I have explored are our senses, our perceptions of the passage of time, and the relationship between our corporeal bodies and the products of our intellect.
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