OVERFLOW

Works by KX2: Ruth Avra & Dana Kleinman
Back Room Gallery

“OVERFLOW” is an exhibition that aims to address the pressing issues of climate change and environmental sustainability through art. The exhibition includes works created with repurposed materials to highlight the urgency of environmental challenges such as water quality, overdevelopment, air quality, and pollution. These artworks aim to bring attention to the impact of human activity on our environment, creating a dialogue about our planet’s fragile future and the need for immediate action.

Creative influence is fostered in human experience. As artists inspired by the natural world, we are accustomed to reinterpreting organic patterns and colors within formal contemporary sculpture. Traditionally in our work, repurposed metals are joined with recycled canvas and paint to create bold abstract sculptures where waterways, shorelines and colors of the Eastern seaboard take center stage. More recently, we are creating work as a response to environmental stressors such as water rise, toxic pollution and over consumption which have pushed the planet to an unprecedented state of fragility. In each work, there is an emphasis on material and form that while aesthetically pleasing, we hope also conveys a message of human responsibility toward the environment. We hope our work creates a moment of pause, reflection and ultimately an awareness of relationship with each other and the planet.

KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create contemporary sculpture merging metal and painting. Traditionally in their work, repurposed metals are joined with recycled canvas and paint to create bold abstract sculptures where waterways, shorelines and colors of the Eastern seaboard take center stage. More recently, they are creating work as a response to environmental stressors such as water rise, toxic pollution and over consumption which have pushed the planet to an unprecedented state of fragility.

Since establishing their artistic collaboration in 2007, KX2’s work has been featured in notable galleries and museums around the world. Importantly, the work was leveraged to the international art scene with an invitation to represent the United States at the 2008 Beijing Biennale at the National Art Museum of China. Their work can be found in numerous private, corporate and public art collections throughout North America. Avra and Kleinman currently reside with their individual families in Southern Florida.