Klea McKenna
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Freestone, San Francisco[1]

Klea McKenna (born 1980) is an American visual artist. She is known for her camera-less photography, photograms and inventive techniques using light sensitive material. Her work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[1] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[2] the San Francisco airport,[3] and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.[4] Her father was Terence McKenna.

Generation

McKenna's body of work "Generation" Uses a printing press to imprint the texture of vintage textiles from women's fashion history into silver gelatin paper before exposing the embossed surface to light, creating a textural photogram. An LA Times review of a 2018 exhibition of this work notes that the textile used "...date from the 1890s to the 1960s and represent women’s wear from the U.S., India, Mexico, China and Europe."[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "McKenna, Klea". SFMOMA.
  2. ^ "Born in 1824 (4) | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
  3. ^ "Born in 1717 | SFO Museum". www.sfomuseum.org.
  4. ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert (2019). "Photographs | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.
  5. ^ "Review: Klea McKenna's haunting images of vintage fabrics tell the stories of bodies that once inhabited them". Los Angeles Times. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2021-08-15.


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