Klein and Vagen present new works that, in very different ways, honor the work of great historical artists who they particularly admire. In exploring compositional relationships between form, color and texture, Steve Klein imbues elemental shapes like squares and spheres with carved lines and brilliant areas of clear and opaque color. Vagen painstakingly arranges thousands of tiny glass dots on a foundation glass tile, then fuses them to the tile with two separate kiln firings. The result is an intricately composed, uniquely intimate portrait of subjects taken from classic portraits by artists like Abbott Thayer and Tintoretto.
