SHEILA KLEIN
Sheila Klein (b. 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American artist. She lives and works in Edison, Washington and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work straddles the worlds of architecture, sculpture, installation and traditional women's crafts.

“I want to dress the world. Re-make it, as I want to see it, one piece at a time. The world is my studio. I perform with materials.”
CURRENTLY
Group Show, 10 Sept 2022 - 8 Oct 2022
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Fresh Mochi, Seattle, Washington
Artists Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, Amanda Manitach, Sharon Arnold, Sheila Klein, Marie Bouassi, Elizabeth Jameson, and Eve Cohen offer a range of protective paraphernalia.
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Group Show, 1 September 2022 - 30 September 2022
Mt. Analogue
The EN, Seattle, Washington
Curated by Chloe Dye Sherpe, featuring work by Lanny Bergner, Sheila Klein, Marita Dingus, Rachel Maxi, and Camas Logue.
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Art Fair, 21 - 24 July 2022
Seattle Art Fair
i.e. gallery featured Imagine the World as Built by a Women, a year of Klein's work from 2021-2022, in their booth at the 2022 Seattle Art Fair.
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Public Art, 2018 - 2023
Walktic
Seattle, Washington
Walktic occupies a prominent site at the north end of the Washington State Convention Center Expansion on Boren Avenue. The site is busy with pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles. Your movement creates the experience as the sculptural graphic undulates as you move past it. You, the light, and the sky will make it happen.
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Public Art, 1993, reinstalled 2020
Vermonica
Los Angeles, California
Vermonica is an artist-initiated sculpture, originally located in the parking lot of a mini-mall. It is a drive-in museum of street lighting. This urban candelabra with its range of materials, styles, and historical periods, points out the variety and sculptural nature of this every day civic appliance.
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City Yard Civic Lantern Columnseum Comfort Zone Dundalk Edison Ruffle Gateways ICU2 Imaginary Landscape Leopard Sky Light Overhead Palm Ear Raison d' Être Shady Liberty Show and Hide Skyon Tryon Skywithin Souvenir Traffic Necklace Underground Girl Urband Vemonica Walktic Way XX Marks the Spot
American Bullies Beehive Bonnet Nave Buenos Aires Bricolage Chip and Mousehole Columns Commemorative Ground Ring Dark Doilies Destination Draped Embroidery Hoops Flags Floating on a Pond Floatzones Ghost Rain Bonnets Guinevere Hall of Architecture Heirloom Textiles Holstein Oysters Imagine the World as Built by a Woman Inscriptions Monuments Other Clothing Paintings Second Grade Signals Stand Textiles Trying Once Again Women Ascending Yr Room
Cept Clearing Coded Threads Flags & Monuments Her Land Imagining Home Incantation Let er Rip Made in Bow Making Up Stories &
Looking at Things Sideways Map of Everything Matched Makers McColl Fellowship Objects Between Subjects Paradise Now Physical Conversation Show of Hands Similar Differences Site and Set The Return Things We Loved First We're Busy