Please join us for a gallery talk on Sunday November 22nd at 3:00 pm, moderated by Alex Klein, Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art. This month features solo exhibitions of Vox Populi artist members Stephanie Bursese and Erin Murray, as well as exhibitions with visiting artists Peter Allen Hoffmann and GraceMarie Keaton.
Alex Klein has recently been appointed the Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) Curator of the ICA Philadelphia; she joined ICA in 2011 from Los Angeles. This past year she organized Barbara Kasten: Stages , the first major survey of the artist’s work; and Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: Consider the Belvedere. She was also the curator of Excursus, an ambitious two-year, four-part exhibition and programming initiative at ICA with Reference Library, East of Borneo, Ooga Booga, and Primary Information (2011–13) and co-curator of First Among Equals (2012, with Kate Kraczon), which considered models of artistic dialogue, collaboration, and antagonism.
Klein’s projects at ICA have included AVANT-GARDEner: Ian Hamilton Finlay (2014, co-curated with Lynne Farrington); Vishal Jugdeo: An Education in the Logic of Leaves (2014); and the ICA Salon series (2011–14). Most recently she served as an agent in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hillman Photography Initiative where she co-curated the exhibition Antoine Catala: Distant Feel (2015, with Tina Kukielski). Her writing has been published in numerous collections, including How Soon Is Now? (LUMA, 2012), The Human Snapshot (Sternberg Press/CCS Bard, 2013), and the critical volume on photography Words Without Pictures (LACMA/Aperture, 2010), which she also edited.
Klein received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, her MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and her BA in Art History from Columbia University, New York. As an artist she has exhibited work in galleries such as Clifton Benevento (New York), Leo Koenig Projeckte (New York), Cherry and Martin (Los Angeles), and Galerie Crone (Berlin). She is also the co-founder, with designer Mark Owens, of the editorial project and publishing imprint Oslo Editions. Previously she held positions in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
