Retrospective
Karla Klarin: Subdividing the LAndscape
From the catalog
“I’m looking up from my desk at a small painting by Karla Klarin and feeling surprise and elation all over again. Her patches of red and blue generally behave themselves within the perspective grid, but sometimes they escape, accidentally or on purpose, with dribbles or a broad swipe of the brush…The life of the paint won’t be confined to the grid.”
- John Walsh, Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum
From the catalog
“…Klarin’s art, too, is the product of keen attention to the formal qualities of color, surface, and dimension as well as the personal expression of place and time.”
- Damon Willick, Professor and Chair of Art History at Loyola Marymount University
“By accidental epiphanies or with rituals of impurity, a sense of place can be layered, if only provisionally, onto the surface of a tract house neighborhood, onto the blankness of a canvas, and within the welter of desires that merge into a single longing.”
— D.J. Waldie, Homeward Bound in the ‘Subdividing the LAndscape’ catalog