Larry and Debby Kline artists and provocatuers – installation, performances, and other works
Reviews
www.resonantcity.net REVIEW July 12, 2011
Debby and Larry Kline at Mission Cultural Center In You We Trust, the current exhibition at Mission Cultural Center Gallery, showcases the work of Debby and Larry Kline. The Kline’s are based in Escondido, CA and much of their work examines the border relationship between Mexico and United States. They work in a variety [...]
BOOK: Larry and Debby Kline Featured in THE ARTIST’S GUIDE by Jackie Battenfield (Da Capo Press, 2009)
The Klines featured in “The Artist’s Guide” by Jackie Battenfield, Da Capo Press, 2009
“COFAC Premiers “The Candy Store: Dispensing Truth” – Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley News Journal, Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2009
Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley News Journal, Vol X1X Number 44, October 29 – November 4, 2009 COFAC Premiers “The Candy Store: Dispensing Truth” Written by AS WE SPEAK By Dr. Gerda Govine Ituarte Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura (COFAC)/Border Council of Arts and Culture (www.cofac101.org) based in Pasadena and Tijuana, Mexico unveils the work of [...]
Press Release: The Game at Hand Is at Hand and Will Be Hands On (Apr. 28, 2009)
Debby and Larry Kline are pleased to announce coverage of The Game at Hand in Thursday’s edition of The North County Times (see below.) The artists will be lecturing on the project on May 16, 2009 at California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido. Following the artists talk at 1PM visitors will be encouraged to [...]
“Artists Make a Move with Global Chess Game” – North County Times, April 23, 2009
As the country geared up to watch U.S. forces invade Afghanistan in 2001, artists Debby and Larry Kline grappled with how to express what they felt [...] the result was “The Game at Hand,” a mixed-media artwork at the center of their joint exhibition at the California Center for the Arts.
Forty Acres Project Published in TransArtists Nieuwsbrief 18, Summer 2007 (The Netherlands)
Artists Debby and Larry Kline are pleased to annouce that the Forty Acres project has been published in TransArtists Nieuwsbrief 18, Summer 2007. “What would provoke anyone to spend time in Wendover, Utah, at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s (CLUI) residency compound with summer temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius? Artists Debby and Larry Kline know the answer: because it is a life changing experience combining unique terrain and a challenging climate amidst interactions with some of the most innovative artists from around the world. Here’s their story:”
“Show & Tell: Forty Acres But Not ‘Mule’” – San Diego Union Tribune (March 23, 2007)
VISUAL ART: Escondido-based artists Larry and Debby Kline, a husband and wife who work collaboratively, have been creating socially critical projects for much of this decade. [...] Now, in a newer project near Wendover, Utah, titled “Forty Acres,” they are raising the issue of land use. There’s no mule involved, but using what they call an M1 mobility scooter/tank, the Klines “captured 40 acres in the Bonneville Salt Flats and mined salt on land formerly held by the Bureau of Land Management BLM).’
“Forty Acres But Not ‘Mule’” – The San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 23, 2007
Visual Art: Escondido-based artists Larry and Debby Kline, a husband and wife who work collaboratively, have been creating socially critical projects for much of this decade. Now, in a newer project near Wendover, Utah, titled “Forty Acres,” they are raising the issue of land use.
“Reviews: West Coast: San Francisco” – Art Papers, March/April 2005
ART PAPERS MARCH/APRIL 2005REVIEWS / West Coast: San Francisco Monuments are repositories of collective public narratives more than personal memory triggers. If our interpretations of history and our memories of events differ, monuments nonetheless strangely condense them through accessible representations and public markers. Marking the thirtieth anniversary of SF Camerawork Gallery, Monument Recall: Public Memory [...]
“Hang Up and Listen” – Utne Magazine, January/February 2005
“Hang Up and Listen” Utne January/February 2005 BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG TROUBLE: “In an effort to raise public awareness about the potential dangers of electromagnetic fields (EMFs), artists Larry and Debby Kline placed a series of freestanding fluorescent light bulbs along the power grid in Southern California. According to Orion (Sept./Oct. 2004), ‘the bulbs, whose plasma [...]
“Monument Recall” – Camerawork, Fall/Winter 2004
“Monument Recall” in Camerawork, Fall/Winter 2004 MONUMENT RECALL “Debby and Larry Kline work conceptually with the themes of spectacle and monument, harnessing invisible forces to create monuments that are both troubling and compelling. The Electric Fields of California are site-specific fluorescent light installations spanning the state of California. The Klines discovered that the ambient electricity [...]
“Unplugged” – Orion Magazine, September/October 2004
UNPLUGGED Artists Larry and Debby Kline find themselves “easily agitated” when working beneath powerlines. Their project, The Electric Fields of California, entails installing a series of freestanding, unelectrified outdoor fluorescent light bulbs along portions of California’s power grid from the Mexican border to Sacramento. The Gunk Foundation and the Potrero Nuevo Fund provided partial funding [...]
“Recent Projects” – Public Art Review, Spring-Summer 2003 / Fall-Winter 2003
Public Art Review; Spring-Summer 2003 THE ELECTRIC FIELDS Of CALIFORNIA by Debby and Larry Kline consists of five installations stretching across California from the U.S./Mexico border to Sacramento. Ambient electrical fields beneath high-voltage power lines illuminate fluorescent bulbs with direct electrical connections. The work addresses responsible use of electricity. Each site will be installed for [...]
“Escondido Artists Illuminated by Energy’s Possibilities” – North County Times, Feb. 28, 2002
“Escondido Artists Illuminated by Energy’s Possibilities“ by Bill Fark North County Times, February 28, 2002. Light figures prominently in visual art. Escondidans Debby and Larry Kline create art by using light. Their “The Electric Fields of California” project, which will eventually stretch north through the state from Mexico to Sacramento, is a series of outdoor [...]