Klein’s work has roots in Surrealism and the methods of Assemblage, but his work maintains a spare and careful concern for the object, emphasizing a sense of memory or shared awareness in his exploration of new metaphoric structures…the scale of these works is intimate, their execution precise, and the artist’s concern for a meticulous and well-crafted appearance rewards close examination. But the real art of assemblage for Klein lies in the invitation to consider the metaphors proposed, an act of thinking obviously part of, but different from the strictly visual part of the work…Richard Klein is presenting art that seeks to preserve the most valuable part of meaning: its mystery.

-Stewart Crone, from Richard Klein: Recent Work, exhibition catalogue published by Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995