kat zagaria buckley - shadow echo memory

Installed in October of 2021, Call/Response is a collaborative exhibition featuring work by painter Hannah Barnes and ceramicist Susan Klein at the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery. Curated by Kat Zagaria Buckley. Learn more about the exhibition here. All photos courtesy of Liz Brown.

Installation view featuring Susan Klein, Offering, 2017. 15 votive pieces, oil and acrylic on paper clay and ceramic, 84 x 72 in.

Foreground: Susan Klein, After Ponmudi, 2019. Oil painted and glazed ceramic stoneware, 29 x 20 x 22 in.

Installation view, Call/Response: Hannah Barnes and Susan Klein, USM Art Gallery, 2021.

Left: Susan Klein, Soft Wall, 2021. Oil painted and glazed ceramic stoneware, 10 x 26 x 14 in. Right: Hannah Barnes and Susan Klein, Echo Chamber, 2020. Shibori dye method on linen.

Susan Klein, Offering, 2017. 15 votive pieces, oil and acrylic on paper clay and ceramic, 84 x 72 in.

Foreground left: Susan Klein, After Blue Blaze, 2019. Glazed and oil painted ceramic stoneware, 23 x 17 x 8 in.

Installation view, Call/Response: Hannah Barnes and Susan Klein, USM Art Gallery, 2021.

Left: Hannah Barnes, Before Two Dots, 2021. Oil and dye on linen, 32 x 28 in. Center: Susan Klein, Two Dots, 2021. Glazed and oil painted ceramic stoneware, pom poms; 30 x 25 x 22 in. Right: Hannah Barnes and Susan Klein, Echo Chamber, 2020. Shibori dye method on linen.

Foreground: Susan Klein, After Thicket, 2019. Glazed and oil painted ceramic stoneware, wire, and marker on acetate; 13.5 x 13 x 9 in. Background: Hannah Barnes, Thicket, 2015. Watercolor and gesso on paper, 50 x 40 in.

Installation view, Call/Response: Hannah Barnes and Susan Klein, USM Art Gallery, 2021.