Whether a painting is abstract or representational matters less to Megan Klco than capturing a particular sense of the location. Working within varying degrees of abstraction, she creates a sense of place through familiarity with the particular colors, shapes and textures that make up her local landscape. Initially drafted from familiar locations, the surfaces of her pieces become sites for ritual, memory and contemplation as her work progresses. She completes her painting over weeks and months, and as time passes, familiar spaces transform under the sediment of repeated painting and re-painting. Passages are re-imagined or lost as she explores the tension between what is ordered and disordered, plastic and ephemeral, representational and abstract.Megan Klco earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Truman State University in Kirksville, MO, and her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI.