Jeana Eve Klein "Cake"

Jeana Eve Klein "Cake" 2025

Mixed Media: Hand-woven plastic beads, Monofilament, and Acrylic Yarn
Dimensions: 41 x 51 in
Unique
Signed on Verso

Jeana Eve Klein is an artist and educator based in Boone, North Carolina, where she is Professor of Fibers (and—reluctantly—sometimes a low-level administrator) in the Art Department at Appalachian State University. Klein’s wide-ranging studio practice addresses recurring themes of labor and value, social media and other digital relationships, language and communication, the inherent meaning in materials, the fallibility and malleability of memory, and the limitations of documentation. As a textiles generalist and conceptual artist, the processes and materials she uses vary from project to project, including traditional textiles techniques such as weaving and knitting as well as digital media, installation, and social practice. Klein has exactly one tattoo (a blue dot on her right foot based on a dye spill), is a passionate yet mediocre gardener, and challenges anyone to a game of Boggle. Her home includes a husband, two kids, two guinea pigs, and a few house plants she’s trying to keep alive.

“I am in an ongoing state of shock. A steady rage is simmering just below the surface at all times. I simply do not understand how we have allowed our country to become this version of itself.

I am trying to process this new reality through my work, by inventing pre-apocalyptic scenarios that are the precursors to the present.” - Jeana Eve Klein