Gloria Klein
{{Short description|American painter (1936–2021)}}
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Gloria Klein (September 12, 1936 – September 23, 2021) was an American painter based in New York City.{{cite web|title=National Museum of Women in the Arts - Database of Women Artists|url=http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=4339|website=CLARA|accessdate=5 March 2016}} Klein was a member of the Criss-Cross art cooperative. She died on September 23, 2021, at the age of 85.{{cite web |title=Uncovering Gloria Klein |url=https://www.gloriakleinarchives.com/bio/ |website=Gloria Klein Archives |access-date=8 February 2024}}
Work
Klein's work is primarily geometric and nonrepresentational, and she is considered a founding member of the Pattern and Decoration movement.{{cite web|last1=Rando|first1=Flavi|title=About Gloria Klein: Structural Madness: Patterns of Love|url=http://gloriaklein.website/about-gloria-klein.html|website=gloriaklein.website|accessdate=4 March 2016}} Her work is included in the permanent collection at the Blanton Museum of Art.{{cite web|title=Blanton Museum of Art Online Collections Database|url=http://collection.blantonmuseum.org/Art7871?sid=53724&x=1516927|accessdate=5 March 2016}}
Exhibitions
Klein's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions from the 1970s to the early 2010s, including three solo exhibitions at Gallery 128 in New York City.{{cite web|last1=Klein|first1=Gloria|title=resume and bibliography|url=http://gloriaklein.website/resume-and-bibliography.html|website=gloriaklein.website|accessdate=4 March 2016}} The feminist art publication Heresies included Klein's 1977 work Untitled in their "Lesbian Art and Artists" issue.{{cite journal|title=Lesbian Art and Artists|journal=Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics|date=Fall 1977|volume=1|issue=3|page=77}} Klein's works were also exhibited in "A Lesbian Show" at 112 Greene Street Workshop in New York, in 1978, which was curated by Harmony Hammond.{{cite web|last1=Williams|first1=Carla|title=American Art: Lesbian, Post-Stonewall|url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/am_art_lesbian_post_stonewall_A.pdf|website=GLBTQA Archive|accessdate=5 March 2016}}
In addition to having her work featured, Klein has also organized exhibitions, including the Geometrics show reviewed by the New York Times.{{cite news|title=Last Chance|work=New York Times|date=7 December 2007|page=E34}}
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