ABOUT SANDRA
 

Sandra Klein is an artist whose images, whether captured with a camera or composited, portray a layered world which, though filled with anxiety and trauma, still is rich with joy. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and received a BFA from Tyler School of Fine Art in Philadelphia, PA and an MA in Printmaking from San Diego State University.

Her images have been shown throughout the United States and abroad and she has had one person shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography, both the Lishiu and Yixian Festivals in China, the A Smith Gallery in Texas, Photographic Gallery SMA in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Atlanta Photography Group in Atlanta Georgia. 

Her work has been featured on Lenscratch, The Boston Globe, A Photo Editor, What Will You Remember, Musee Magazine, Beta Magazine and Diffusion Magazines, and is held in public and private collections. 

She is represented by Photographic Gallery SMA in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Walker Fine Art Gallery in Denver, Colorado

 

ARTIST STATEMENT
 

My degrees are both in printmaking, but I have slowly moved from that medium, first to collage and mixed media and finally to photography.

My photographs are visual poems, small stories that evoke universal emotions. My focus has been on self-portraits and layered images created digitally in Adobe Photoshop. These are often combined with embroidered text and collage, adding a three-dimensional element to the page. The subjects I focus on include gender, aging, memory and loss.

Using the processes and concepts I learned in printmaking and collage, my photographs are composed of multiple layers. I have always found the printmaking process to be mysterious and magical. The excitement I felt when printing etchings and lithographs is similar to waiting for my photographic image to print.

 

RESUME
 

Honors
2021 Critical Mass Top 200
2020 Critical Mass Top 200
2017 Critical Mass Top 200


One Person Shows
2020 There and Back Again, Studio Channel Islands Gallery, Camarillo, CA, Curator Peter Tyas
2019 Grieving in Japan, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Curators Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully
2017 Gray Matter, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, Curator Paula Tognerelli
2017 Lishui Festival, China, Curator Guo Jing
2017 Yixian Festival, China, Curator Guo Jing

Group Shows
2024

·  Walker Fine At Gallery, Stripped, Denver, Colorado, curated by Bobbie Walker and Libby Garon

·  Maine Museum of Photography, The Paula Tognerelli Collection, Portland, Maine, curated by Denise Froelich

2023

·  PhotoNola Review Exhibition, Photographic Gallery SMA, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, curated by Jo Brenzo

·  9 Conversations, Lafayette City Center Place, Boston, Ma, curated by Crista Dix

·  Women by Women, Southeast Center of Photography, Greenville, SC, juried by Laurie Klein

·  2023 Center for Photographic Art Members Show, Carmel, CA, juried by Hamidah Glasgow

·  Dallas Center for Photography, Hold Up Half the Sky, Dallas, TX, juried by Aline Smithson

2022

  • Size Matters, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA, Juror Bailey Mizelle

  • Members Show, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Juror Crista Dix

  • Conversations with the Archive, Southeast Center for Photography, Juror Aline Smithson

  • Red, Float Magazine, juried by Dana Stirling

  • Arte en la Naturaleza ll, Museo de la Naturaleza Cantabria, Espana, curated by Andrea Juan and Gabriel Penedo

  • Enlighten, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, curated by Crista Dix

  • Unusual Characters:Portraits and the Modern Eye, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, Ohio, Curated by Kent Krugh

2021

  • Members Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver CO, Juror Aline Smithson

  • Portrait Show, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, Juror Aline Smithson

  • Mistake. Chance. Repetition, Experimental Photo Festival, Agora, Spain, Juror Naroa Perez

  • International Juried Show, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Jurors Debra Klomp and Darren Ching

  • Art in the Plague Year, UC Riverside Arts Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, Jurors Douglas McCollough, Rita Souther, Nikolay Maslow


    2020

  • Vistas, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Juror S. Gayle Stevens

  • Member Show, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Jurors Ann Jastrab and Laura Sackett

  • Griffin Museum of Photography Member Show, Winchester, MA, Juror Alexa Dilworth 

  • Beyond the Surface: The Photograph As Object, Cal State Poly University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA, Curator Aline Smithson

  • Southern California Council on Aging, John Wayne Airport, Bowers Museum, Orange County, CA, Juror Michele Cardon

  • Yellow Rose Project, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, Curators Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths

  • Los Angeles Center of Photography, Alumni Show, Los Angeles, CA

  • Center for Fine Art Photography, Female in Focus, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Lisa Volpe

  • Center for Fine Art Photography, Portraits 2020, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Paula Tognerelli

    2019

  • All Women Are Dangerous II, Building Bridges Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Juror: Marisa Caichiola

  • Photoville LA, Made in LA, Beverly Hills, CA, Curators Aline Smithson and Julia Dean

  • LA Artcore 3rd Annual Photographic Competition and Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (second place) Jurors Sarah Lee, Sarah Hadley and Aline Smithson

  • Filter Photo, Member’s Exhibit, Chicago, IL, Juror Aline Smithson

  • Diversity: Alternative Paths in Contemporary Photography, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, TX, Juror Gary Goldberg

  • Diffusion, SE Center of Photography, Greenville, NC, Curator Lori Vrba

  • International Juried Show, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel CA, Juror Paula Tognerelli

  • A Celebration of Women in the Arts, South Bend Civic Center, IN, Curator Rita Koehler

    2018 

  • Depth of Field, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Juror Barbara Bullock-Wilson

  • Billboard Contest, Click Photofest, Raleigh Durham, NC

  • 36th Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, TX, Juror Lisa Volpe

  • Earthly Delights, Studio Channel islands, Camarillo, CA, Juror Carol Shaw Sutton

    2017 

  • Los Angeles Center of Photography, Member Show, Los Angeles, CA, Juror Paula Tognerelli

  • Whose in the House, Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Curator Melanie Craven

  • Directors Choice Series, Zurich, Switzerland, Curator Jennifer Murray

  • All Women Are Dangerous, Building Bridges, Santa Monica, CA, Juror Marisa Caichiolo

  • Photography Reimagined VI, Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Juror Melanie Craven

    2016 

  • The Artist’s Hand, Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona (Second Place) Juror Melanie Craven

  • Non Sequitor, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

  • Roots and Rootless, Fold Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • Infinite Possibilities, Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Juror Melanie Craven

  • Center Forward, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (Honorable Mention), Juror Hamida Glasgow and Aline Smithson

  • Who’s in the House, Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Curator Melanie Craven

  • Texas Photographic Society Members Juried Show

  • Winter Solstice, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

    2015 

  • Third Person, Cleveland Print Room, Cleveland, OH, Curator Chuck Mintz

  • Views From the Edge:Women Gender and Politics, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence, RI, Curator Karen Guttfreund

  • Wisdom, American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA, Curator, Georgia Freedman-Harvey

  • Shootapalooza Alumni Exhibition, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City Texas, Juror Judy Sherrod



    2014

  • Alternative Realities, Arena Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Juror Aline Smithson

  • Magic, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Juror Fran Forman

  • Unbound at Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA (purchase prize) Juror Gordon Stettinius

  • Griffin Museum of Photography 20th Juried Show, Winchester, MA

  • Los Angeles Center of Photography, 1st Annual Membership Show, Los Angeles, CA

  • Still Life at Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Rebecca Senf

  • Narratives at Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Scott B Davis


    2013

  • Photo+Craft at Light Box Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR, Juror Michael Granger

  • Stories, Memories and Histories at Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

  • Gallery 2531 House Party of Photography, Silverlake, CA

  • Gallery 825 Annual Benefit Auction, Los Angeles, CA

  • Alternate Realities, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Juror Aline Smithson

  • Center Forward, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Hamidah Glasgow


    2012

  • Momentum, National Women’s Caucus for Art Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juror Karen Guttfreund

  • Imagination, A Smith Gallery, Johnson, TX, Juror Aline Smithson

  • Family, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

  • Emerging LA Artists, Perfect Exposure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Speaking
Panel Discussion, Alternative Processes in Photography, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, NY, April 18, 2021

Publications

All About Photo, Magazine #23, November, 2021
Lenscratch, April 22, 2021
All About Photo, Magazine #19, August 2021
Dek Unu Magazine, 2020
Lenscratch, January 6, 2020
Lenscratch, February 4, 2019
Beta Magazine, 2018
RFoto Folio, 2018
Intima Magazine, Spring 2017 
What will You Remember, April 2017
Musee Magazine, July 2017
Boston Globe, September 2017
California Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2017
Diffusion Magazine, Volume IX, 2017
Lenscratch, May 18, 2017
A Photo Editor, January 2015
Diffusion Magazine, Volume V, 2013
Lenscratch, April 17, 2013

Memberships
Center for Fine Art Photography
Center for Photographic Art
Filter Photo
Griffin Museum of Photography
Houston Center of Photography
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Medium Photography
NOLA Photoalliance
Photographic Arts Council
Texas Photography Society
The Big Picture
Women’s Photo Alliance
Women in Photography