Seffa Klein
Seffa Klein (b. 1996) is a French-American artist living and working between Los Angeles, Arizona, and Paris. Her multidisciplinary practice spans paintings composed of elemental metals, sculpture, drawing, installation, writing, and music - drawing from meditation, mathematics, scientific research, and visionary experience to communicate across scales, from the molecular to the astronomical. At its core, her work seeks to propose new structures, both physical and ideological, for a more elevated human future.
Her Fire Blankets series - bismuth on woven glass - operate in a spiritual register, pursuing what she calls Hierophany: the physical embodiment of the divine, offering viewers channels toward their own connection to universal truth. Her sculptural works, including the SK Brick and the AD Plank, occupy a more conceptual terrain, interrogating the basic units through which we construct reality - ontologically, linguistically, and physically - and proposing playful subversions of accepted modes of building and meaning making. Together, these bodies of work constitute an ever expanding alternate world, one where social structures reflect higher ideals rooted in love and intelligence.
Klein's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States. Highlights include her solo exhibition Evidence Enough at Peter Blake Gallery in Laguna, CA; the group show LA on Fire at Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles; a presentation with Louise Alexander Gallery at ALAC; and The Edge of Light: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on California Abstraction at Huntington Beach Art Center (2019). That same year, Artnet named her one of nine emerging Los Angeles artists to watch. Her work was featured in LALA Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and The Lab Mag in 2020. Between 2019 and 2022, she undertook an extended live work residency on a 48 acre ranch in the hills of west Los Angeles, embracing long periods of isolation to develop several new bodies of work.
Her New York solo debut, WEBs: Where Everything Belongs (2023), drew coverage from Artnet, CNN, and Surface Magazine; Artnet also named her among "5 Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough" during Frieze New York. In 2024, she participated in Signal to Noise at Diane Rosenstein Gallery and showed with Wilding Cran Gallery at Felix Art Fair. Her first international solo exhibition opened May 15, 2024, at Galerie Poggi in Paris - receiving coverage in Le Monde, Les Echos, Art Basel, Le Quotidien de l'Art, Paris Match, and Autre Magazine.