Janice Kluge is an American artist who specializes in large and small scale sculpture. She holds a BFA with honors from the

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and an MFA for the

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. Kluge is

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of sculpture and drawing at the

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where she has taught since 1982. After serving three years as Interim Chair for the art and art history department she returned to full-time art making and teaching. Kluge is married to Cam Langley, a glass artist who specializes in fine art pieces. Initially trained as a

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, Kluge has continued to enlarge the scale and complexity of her work refocusing her genre to include more

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, technological and conceptual installations. Along with this new format Kluge is now encompassing sound and digital video along with other sensory elements. Kluge has exhibited and lectured extensively. Her most notable venues are the

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in Washington, D.C.,

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, the Fine Arts Center in

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and The Hand and Spirit Gallery in

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. Her work has been reviewed and published in numerous journals and magazines most notably

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magazine, American Crafts magazine,

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and CIRCA Art Magazine. Kluge has also been included in Arthur Williams' textbook, ''"Sculpture, Technique, Form and Content"'' in 1995, and ''"

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"'' in 2000 and again in 2002.

Work

* In 2009 Kluge's work was shown alongside the work of Wayne McNeil and Doug Baulos and was the

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exhibition of the Paper Wasp. * In 2009 Kluge's work was chosen to be part of the exhibition ''"Anthropology: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted"'' along with the work of Lee Isaacs,

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, Sara Garden Armstrong, Karen Graffeo, Joel Seah, The Chadwick's, Mitchell Gaudet, Kahn and Selesnick,

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, Beatrice Coron, Kelly Grider, Laura Gilbert, among others. The exhibition was curated by

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and

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for Central Booking Gallery,

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. * In 2009 Kluge's work was part of "Natural Histories," curated by

and

for Central Bookin
Central Booking Gallery, Brooklyn, NY September 8-November 8
This was the inaugural exhibition for this venue and also included the work of Judy Hoffman,

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and

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. This exhibition also displayed work by Travis Childers, Tina Flau, Antonio Contro, Donna Maria de Creeft, Martin Mazorra, Josh Willis, Cosme Herrera, Doug Baulos and Sara Garden Armstrong among others. * From 2000 to 2003 Kluge's work was selected for ''"Rising Voices"'' curated by Ruth Appelhof The

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that then traveled to The

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in 2001, The

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in 2001, The

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in 2002 and then to The

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in 2003. This exhibition was included in a catalogue and was also made into a video presentation (also called ''"Voices Rising"'') that ran on

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, * In 1999 Kluge was part of ''"Four Voices: Echoes"'' at Bare Hands Gallery. Her sculpture was shown with Lucy Jaffe (painter), and Sonja Rieger (photographer) and Marie Weaver (printmaker). * In 1999 Kluge's work was selected for the exhibition, ''"UpSouth"'' which opened simultaneously in four venues across the city of Birmingham Alabama. These venues were Space One Eleven, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, Agnes Gallery, and the

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and funded by The

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Foundation, Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the

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. It showed the work of artists Emma Amos and Willie Birch and writer

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, as well as Ann Benton, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Karen Graffeo, Mary Ann Sampson, Lee Isaacs, J. M. Walker and Marie Weaver.Weaver lists this in he
résumé
. There was an extensive catalogue for this exhibition. * In 1998, Kluge was part of a three-person exhibition, ''"White Light"'' at Agnes Gallery in

. * ''"Encounters, From a Whisper to a Scream: The Evocative Work of Janice Kluge"'' was a solo exhibition in 1998 at the

, (brochure). This exhibition also won the silver medal award at the Southeastern Museum Conference that year. * In 1996, Kluge's work was exhibited at

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and the

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Center in

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. Kluge was also a visiting artist at the Royal College of Art and Design in

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and at

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. * In 1984 Kluge's work was part of ''"After Her Own Image: Woman’s Work,"'' work selected by Dorothy Gillespie for The Fine Arts Center of Salem College,

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External links

Janice Kluge
(Official Website)
Janice Kluge on Alabama Public Television
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