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
Solo Show, 1 September 2023 - 24 September 2023
Truce
Geheim Gallery, Bellingham, Washington
Installation. New work in a place. Opening September 1, 5-8 PM. Walk-through with Klein & Barbara Goldstein September 10 at 1PM.
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Article, August 4, 2023
Undeground Girl featured in New York Times
Underground Girl was used as the lead image in the recent article describing the L.A. Subway.
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Group Show, 14 July 2023 - 30 July 2023
XO23
XO, Seattle, Washington
Urband and new weavings are featured at XO.
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Group Show, 27 July 2023 - 30 July 2023, 3 August 2023
Better Yet
Forest for the Trees, Railspur, Seattle, Washington
Flags on display.
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Publication, 2023
On the Street: In-Between Architecture
Architecture and design critic Edwin Heathcote featured Vermonica in his new book.
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Article, 22 February 2023
Nuevos Ojos
Maria Zentner writes about 22 Del Este, Sheila Klein and Ries Niemi's gallery space in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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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 Arrivals and Departures 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 Other Clothing Paintings Second Grade Signals Soft City 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