Bio
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| Klea McKenna was raised in the rural, bohemian subcultures at the western edge of the United States. She has studied photography at Florence Art Institute, UCLA and UCSC, and holds an MFA from California College of the Arts. McKenna’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at Haines Gallery and Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco and at Jen Beckman Gallery and Regina Rex in New York. Klea has taught photography at CCA and UC Davis and currently lives in San Francisco, CA. Her recent projects engage the materiality of analogue photography to create evidence of visual experience. In particular, she explores human perceptions and representations of nature, and photography’s unique ability to either confirm or disarm those perceptions. Through the patterns of the microcosms and macrocosms of ecology, familiar landscapes become strange, even abstracted terrain. Her work with found material and images points out our collective dependency on this unstable medium. In early 2011 Klea co-founded the arts blog In The Make with writer Nikki Grattan. In The Make posts weekly studio visits with artists. www.inthemake.com |
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