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The Esther Klein Art Gallery (EKG) examines contemporary art and artists that engage emergent trends in science and technology. EKG exhibitions are used as a vehicle to promote innovative partnerships with peer organizations in the art, science and technology community. Through these partnerships EKG develops hybrid programming that creatively examines the increasing influence of science and technology in our daily lives. These programs are offered to EKG audiences and the Philadelphia community. EKG gallery talks, panel discussions and education programs are designed to complement the range of art, science & technology exhibitions held each year.
The Esther Klein Art Gallery is a nonprofit, self supporting branch of the University City Science Center (UCSC), the first urban, university related research park in the United States. EKG has been a strong and vital force in the Philadelphia art community for over 30 years. Dr. Randall Whaley, UCSC President in 1975, envisioned a gallery program that explored and promoted the relationship between art and science. In 1981, F. Buckminster Fuller, a past UCSC World Fellow and Resident, was featured in an exhibition that included his early drawings, 4-D and dymaxion ideas and his last invention, the dymaxion bookcase. The success of these early exhibitions and the gallery’s strategic affiliation with the Science Center paved the way for what has become EKG’s primary focus exploring the intersection between art, science and technology. To date, EKG has supported well over 3500 regional artists through solo and group exhibitions and extends a dynamic program and events calendar that is completely free and open to the public. |
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