With her paintings Carla Klein explores the relationship between painting and photography and the layers of mediation involved in both creating and interpreting images. Exquisitely rendered, her body of work explores the use of color beyond her muted blue-gray palette, layering reds, yellows, and oranges to create intensely vibrant and arresting compositions. Based on photographs from the artist's archive, each composition pushes the original image towards abstraction while maintaining a close relationship to the photograph itself. Traces of the imaging process appear in many of her works, and the use of color re-contextualises contemporary digital photography’s use of filters, color effects and manipulation.