Artist John Klosterman of Daphne Presents Master's Exhibition

2018 Feb 1

The University of Alabama department of art and art history is presenting the master of arts exhibitions of graduate student John Klosterman from Feb. 8 to 22 in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. A thesis exhibition is one of the requirements for the successful completion of the Master of Arts program in the UA Department of Art and Art History. For more information about our graduate programs, visit this page: http://art.ua.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/.

Klosterman is a graduate student in printmaking and holds an assistantship in studio art. Growing up in Daphne, Ala., he developed a fondness for machines and the tinkering that came along with them. Klosterman says that his love of tinkering "now takes on a two-dimensional form as he transfers ink to paper. Instead of the turn of a wrench," he said, "it is now the carving of a block with a gouge. Layers of each print, much like parts of a car, are assembled in a manner that creates a functioning vehicle for the message of each piece." Klosterman received the BFA from the University of South Alabama in 2015 with a major in printmaking and a minor in interdisciplinary studies. His work was included in the Hot-N-Ready Print Portfolio Exchange, which traveled to Wichita State University (Kansas), Westminster College (New Wilmington, Pa.) and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. His work will also be included in the upcoming invitational exhibition, Nine, at Eichold Gallery at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala.